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Food

Recipe: Pomegranate Risotto With Bay Scallops Alla Veneziana

By Susan Simon Commercial bay scalloping season opened on Nov. 1 in just about all the areas in the northeast where the sweet, bivalve mollusk is fished. While the area that we call home isn’t on a coast, popular – and anxiously awaited – bay scallops are available for sale in

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Wellness

A Long, But Eminently Readable Report On The Bacon Debacle

Since the recent announcement by the World Health Organization (WHO), many have found themselves, once again, reconsidering their relationship to meat — specifically, reconsidering the suddenly precarious potential of that crackly slice of bacon. The news seemed dire indeed: after conducting an exhaustive review of published findings over the last several

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Style

Holiday Spirit Grows At Flower Blossom Farm’s Wreath Parties

By Lisa Green “I eat, sleep and breathe flowers," says Kim Thomas, flitting around her studio like a bee pollinating blossoms. “But I’m not a florist. I’m a flower farmer who does custom designs." Not just custom, though. The chief flower fairy at Flower Blossom Farm

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Real Estate

Prairie Style

Built in 2006, this home is a nod to Frank Lloyd Wright with its prairie-style exterior that is reminiscent of the architect's most famous house style. Dramatically sited on 53 private acres in Ancram, the five-bedroom house overlooks specimen trees, stone walls, English gardens and a one-acre spring-fed

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Real Estate

Homage To Wright

One part modern, one part mountain lodge, this home is an homage to the Frank Lloyd Wright style, especially noticeable in the interior's wide-open floor plan. Built in 2007, the Egremont house has a modern interior designed with attention to details, and unique, fine-crafted builtins are abundant. The

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Real Estate

Distinctively Designed

Light-filled, strong horizontal lines and a secluded entrance are all trademarks of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural style, which was the inspiration for this Austerlitz home. Sited on 11 private acres with unobstructed views of Austerlitz and Chatham, the architect-designed property is surrounded by mature landscaping and a kidney-shaped

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Real Estate

Zen Inspiration

Frank Lloyd Wright meets the 21st century at this modern home in Kent which has a  hipped roof, wide eaves, long horizontal lines and fine craftsmanship. The house is reached via a long, private driveway, a portion of which is a small bridge that spans Jack Brook. The 28-acre grounds

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Community

The Rural We: Alexander Sovronsky

Photo by Abby Wood. Alexander Sovronsky is an actor, multi-instrumentalist, and the resident composer at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass. His career highlights include composing for, and acting and playing music in, the 2007 Broadway production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" (starring Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner) and

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Arts

Kinderhook Century-Old Limericks Foretell 'Winter in America'

By Jamie Larson Who is Harold Van Santvoord? And why the hell are the 19th-century illustrated limericks from the long dead Kinderhook, New York writer’s journal being presented at one of our region's premier modern art venues? Past and present collided in 2006, when the Friends of

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Food

Recipe: Crumble-Top Apple Pie

This week's recipe is from Berkshire-based duo The Butcher & The Baker. The Butcher is Jake, a nose-to-tail butcher/artist, who loves to cook and grew up in the woody hills of Western Massachusetts where his passion for local, fresh food was first instilled in him. The Baker

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Parties

'Freakshow' Scares Up Funds For Berkshire Theatre Group

Amy Krzanik reports from Pittsfield. Great minds thought alike last year when Berkshire Theatre Group and party planners Berkshire Shenanigans threw dual Halloween-night masquerade balls at the Colonial Theatre and The Mount, respectively. This year they teamed up on Saturday, Oct. 31 to put on a massive 1920s carnival “Freakshow&

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Food

Chefs Weigh In On A Tradition At The Tipping Point

By Andrea Pyros Should restaurants do away with tipping and switch to a service-included policy? News that famed New York restaurateur Danny Meyer plans to eliminate tipping in all 13 of his Union Square Hospitality Group restaurants has chefs, restaurant owners and diners all taking notice. Meyer’s “hospitality included&

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