Food
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Sep. 25, 2010 - 9:44 am
Smoked eels and other Catskills-area specialties will enjoy 15 minutes of farm market fame at the New Amersterdam Market in lower Manhattan tomorrow. The market is featuring our local foods, those collected by the eel philosopher of Delaware County, Ray... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 23, 2010 - 12:16 pm
On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration announced that it would give the Sullivan County Industrial Development Agency $800,000 in funds to build a slaughterhouse in Liberty, according to the Times Herald-Record and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 20, 2010 - 2:02 pm
This black bear, captured on surveillance video on Hunter Mountain a couple of weeks ago, isn't really getting anywhere in his quest for midnight munchies until around the 1:27 mark. That's when he (or she?) finds the motherlode of donut holes.
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 17, 2010 - 8:07 am
It took over six months, but the Hobart diner that burned down last winter opened for business again last weekend, according to the Mountain Eagle:
Despite the devastation, the reopened Coffee Pot looks exactly the same as it did before the fire, right... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Sep. 16, 2010 - 12:42 pm
Catskill Mountain Thunder Motorcycle Rally
The biggest motorcycle party of the season starts tonight at 5pm in East Durham during the kickoff of the annual Catskill Mountain Thunder festival. Shows, vendors, tattoos, fireworks, several long, scenic rides... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 16, 2010 - 11:26 am
Misako Ishimura, the captain of Japan's national fly fishing team, has spent the year introducing the United States to a pared-down, "haiku-like" form of fly fishing known as Tenkara. Ishimura, who lives in Arkansas, first discovered fly fishing in the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 14, 2010 - 7:05 am
If you're in charge of "visual explaining" at the New York Times, you probably know your way around video editing. And indeed, Andrew DeVigal, the gray lady's multimedia editor, just posted an extremely watchable and lively video account of a recent... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 9, 2010 - 12:30 am
A crowd of several hundred protesters packed the lawn of Courthouse Square in Delhi yesterday to protest the Delaware County Board of Supervisors, which has been supportive of hydraulic fracturing, a form of gas drilling also known as fracking.
One by one... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 2, 2010 - 2:28 pm
Guess who painted this? Hint: She's not human.
The excrutiatingly fabulous among us already know what they're doing this weekend: they're attending All Tomorrow's Parties, the hipsterrific music festival at Kutsher's in Monticello this weekend. We've sent... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 1, 2010 - 7:57 pm
The Village Voice's food critic, Robert Sietsema, appears to have vacationed in the Catskills last week. He posted three blog entries under the header Upstate Journal, in which he waxes enthusiastic about Bread Alone Bakery in Boiceville and proves savvy... Read more



