Rural Intelligence (Page 441)

Food

What's Germinating At Plantin' Seeds? Farmers, Friends, Food

Brandon Scimeca preparing a Friday night bread and soup dinner. By Lisa Green It’s both refreshing and a little frustrating when an organization’s creators can’t deliver a definitive answer when you ask about their mission statement. “We’re not sure what we are," says Dale McDonald,

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Food

Taste Your Way Down Taco Street In Red Hook

Quesadillas at Bubby's Take Away Kitchen. By Jamie Larson In the past year, two new Mexican food joints have opened in Red Hook, New York, essentially across the street from each other. Thankfully, they're approaching their menu and style from different angles. What we are even

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Food

Recipe: Haven Cakes With Apple Syrup

If you’re in the Berkshires and need to meet with someone, in a place where you can get a nice pastry and coffee or a local/organic/homemade meal in a convivial (and wired) setting, where do you go? Very likely, it’ll be one of the two Haven

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Community

The Rural We: Anna Rachminov

Anna Rachminov is the owner of Stone Bridge Cider in Hudson, N.Y. and a member of the Hudson Area Library board of directors. The traces of a lilting accent are clues to her heritage: although she was born in Winnipeg, where her father was a professional hockey player, her

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Real Estate

Bells And Whistles

A stately Greek Revival in Austerlitz offers a gourmet kitchen that pulls out all the stops with top-notch appliances, a wine cooler, a bank of windows above the sink to let in the view, an elegant island and lots of space for preparing and enjoying a meal. The home

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Real Estate

Cooking With Views

Salisbury is home to this magnificent estate on 111 acres that features a cool, contemporary kitchen and breakfast bar framed by windows. The 9,100 square-foot main house has vintage French moldings, hand-hewn beams from an 18th-century New England barn, high ceilings and common rooms that flow

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Real Estate

A Kitchen Transformed

Muddy Rugs in Washington is the home of two designers who have transformed it from top to bottom, most notably in the kitchen with its soaring ceiling, wood cabinets, sleek island and large fireplace. The floor plan was reconfigured and each room has its own interior design. The are five

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Real Estate

Grand For Gourmands

This estate is a true grand Berkshire cottage, so the kitchen has the best of everything, including granite counters and Energy Star appliances. Located in Lenox on 12 acres of lush grounds and manicured gardens, there are two houses on the property: the main house with six bedrooms, and the

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Style

Design Menagerie: Shopping For "Soulful, Sustainable Stuff"

By Lisa Green In a shop like Design Menagerie, it wouldn’t be surprising to find an owner who is on a first-name basis with her vendors. But for Birgit Marko, who moved her store from Wisconsin to downtown Lenox last November, the items she carries, and the people

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Community

Searching For Bigfoot In The Hudson Valley

BRHV's Debbie Ray and lead researcher Gayle Beatty. By Jamie Larson We all choose to believe in certain things that help alleviate our general anxiety about the incomprehensible complexity of existence. Gayle Beatty, lead researcher for the Bigfoot Researchers of the Hudson Valley, and her ever-growing group

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Community

The Rural We: Dan Bolognani

You may know Lakeville resident Dan Bolognani from his 20-year tenure as Interlaken Inn’s director of sales and marketing, or as a board member of many of our region’s important organizations, such as the Berkshire Visitors Bureau, Western Connecticut Convention and Visitors Bureau, the after-school program

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Food

Recipe: Haven Cafe's Crab And Shrimp Cakes

If you’re in the Berkshires and need to meet with someone, in a place where you can get a nice pastry and coffee or a local/organic/homemade meal in a convivial (and wired) setting, where do you go? Very likely, it’ll be one of the two Haven

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