Food
By Janel Bladow on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014 - 1:52 pm
It took Michael and Amelia Hegeman eight years to find the perfect spot to open Zephyr, their new farm-to-table restaurant. The first time the couple set eyes on the 100-year-old building in the Ulster County hamlet of Pine Hill that is now Zephyr's home... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 - 2:15 pm
Columbus Day Weekend is coming up, and the Catskills are making the most of summer's last hurrah.
If you're a Catskills local, you've been living in a slow-mo fireworks display for a couple of weeks now, as maples, beeches, birches and oaks erupt in a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 - 12:40 pm
The Greenheart Farmstand is selling pumpkins and produce this week at the former Bank of America building on Route 28 in the Ulster County hamlet of Shokan, according to its customers and to Drew Boggess, the chair of Olive Planning Board.
The farmstand... Read more
By Janel Bladow on Monday, Oct. 6, 2014 - 5:22 pm
Above: An Autumn Olive (Wildberry) Mojito. Photo courtesy of Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower. Make your own with the recipe at the bottom of this story.
Foraging for food that grows wild has long been a hobby for nature lovers out walking in the woods. But... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 16, 2014 - 12:27 pm
Above: Amy’s Take-Away Ensalada Mixta from 4 local farms — Story’s, RSK, Migliorelli, and Foxcroft, by Robert Sink, one of the entries so far in the 2015 Catskills Food Guide Photo Contest.
The contest is closed. Check out all great entries on the... Read more
By Janel Bladow on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014 - 9:19 am
A new restaurant that serves an eclectic mix of Turkish specialities and American diner classics is bringing together a Sufi Muslim community and its rural Catskills neighbors.
“More and more we are seeing less and less prejudice,” said café manager Erdem... Read more
By Janel Bladow on Thursday, Jul. 17, 2014 - 12:30 pm
“I just stared and said ‘Oh, that’s my restaurant.’ This is my dream,” said Paula Douralas, proprietor and chef of Petra Estiatorio, the Greek restaurant that opened at Shephard Hills Golf Club over the Fourth of July weekend.
Last winter, Douralas... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 3, 2014 - 6:39 pm
Hanover Farms, a Route 28 farmstand that has been embroiled in legal battle with the town of Shandaken since 2012, is looking for a fresh start -- a new town, and a new name.
Outside the shuttered farmstand, a new sign has appeared, announcing that the... Read more
By Katherine Speller on Friday, Jun. 27, 2014 - 7:34 am
When Justin Behan’s wife was in her later stages of pregnancy, she told him about a dream she had one night: a green wolf walking through their property.
Around that time Behan, a brewer of craft beer, was putting every word he could think of in front of... Read more
By Jennifer Strom on Monday, Jun. 23, 2014 - 4:25 pm
For Catskills dairy farmer Shannon Mason, it all comes down to controlling her own—and her family’s--destiny.
Putting the fruits of her labor on a milk truck every two days meant surrendering to the economic realities of the commercial market, with its... Read more
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