Food
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011 - 4:57 pm
Casks of liquor from Tuthilltown. Photo via the Tuthilltown Spirits Facebook page.
Hudson Valley Business has a neat story this week about what Ulster County whiskey-maker Tuthilltown Spirits is doing with the old oak barrels it uses to age its liquors.... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011 - 11:58 am
Above: Some of the 100 starving llamas rescued by Wes Laraway in Schoharie County last week. Photo from the Northeast Llama Rescue blog.
A massive cross-country llama rescue operation coordinated by a Schoharie-county "llama whisperer" is making headlines... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011 - 10:47 am
The rural Catskills have never been an easy place to do business. When the rest of the country is popping champagne corks and watching the stock market boom, the good times always seem to pass us by. And when recessions hit, the already-hungry local... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011 - 3:24 pm
The staff of the Hanford Mills Museum cuts ice blocks in preparation for Saturday's Ice Harvest Festival. Image from the Hanford Mills Facebook page.
Ice used to be a crop in the days before refrigeration, and at the Hanford Mills Museum in East Meredith... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 - 5:35 pm
Good news: Goldenheart Unidiversity's 'No Bees No Food' project, which we profiled earlier this year, came in first in an online voting drive to receive $5,000 in funding from the Pepsi Refresh Everything contest.
Project mastermind David Turan, cofounder... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 - 4:00 pm
Want to raise some pheasants this year? The New York Department of Environmental Conservation gives away day-old pheasant chicks every spring to anyone with a brooding pen and department approval. The idea is to release the full-grown birds in the fall in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011 - 10:07 am
Losing All Tomorrow's Parties must have been a big blow to Monticello's venerable Kutshers County Club, as we reported last week. But the resort has another trick up its sleeve.
The New York Post reports that the owners of Kutshers are teaming up with... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011 - 3:52 pm
We just got an update from Treadwell resident Linda Norris about The Pickle Project, an exhibit about Ukranian foodways which Norris was seeking to fund via the website Kickstarter by February 1. (We reported on the project a few weeks ago.)
From a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011 - 3:37 pm
The town of Hamden in Delaware County will soon see a local landmark made new: The Hamden Inn, which has been bought by the nearby Lucky Dog Farm Store and Cafe, will open as a restaurant and bar this spring. Longer-term plans are in the works to re-open... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011 - 9:01 am
A fire yesterday afternoon destroyed the Monticello Winery. Yeshiva World News reports:
Fire Departments from multiple towns were dispatched to the Armon Kosher Winery (Allied Wine Corp. / Monticello Winery) at 2 Fairground Road, near Cold Spring Road... Read more
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