A “Taste of” the Hudson Valley
If you’re looking for a true taste of the Hudson Valley, mark your calendar for the fifth annual Hudson Valley Bounty ‘Taste of’ Dinner on August 5 from 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. The Coumbia County Fairgrounds in Chatham, N.Y. sets the stage for this popular fundraising event, which this year commemorates its original founders....
A Culinary Legacy: Cast Iron’s Revival
There are some foods—scallops, a steak, pork chops—that cry out for a solid, gorgeous, homogeneous sear on the outside. Sure, you can get browning from a regular sauté pan. But let me speak plainly: Nothing cooks like cast iron. Cast iron, you say? That heavy, slightly dirty-looking skillet your grandmother used? The skillets the pioneers...
A Walk on the Wild Side
Second Installment in a Two-Part Series “Wildman” Steve Brill, who had an interest in healthful gourmet cooking, was out for a bike ride when he came across a group of ethnic Greek women dressed in black among the greenery in Cunningham Park, Queens. As he likes to tell it, “I asked them what they were...
Digging Deep: Foraging through History
First Installment in a Two-Part Series “A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.” Ralph Waldo Emerson I was raised in the country and I wanted my children to have the benefit of a clean, natural environment as well—that was one of the major reasons my husband and I decided to...
