Rural Intelligence (Page 628)

Food

Currant Scones: Get 'em While They're Hot!

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, local politician, mother of two, and author of the new cookbook, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making (Clarkson Potter), dispenses change and cooking ideas to readers and friends. She shares her peak-of-the-season recipes with Rural Intelligence to

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Walking on Art: The Unlikely Canvas of the Masses

Rarely does a writer pick up the pen in a moment of complete bliss. Nor does an artist envision and create a monumental masterpiece due to an overabundance of happiness. No, the art world (or art of any kind) is usually born of pain and sorrow. Scott Bartzsch can attest

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Arts

The Grand Slambovians and Darlingside: The Twain Shall Meet

By Robert Burke Warren Americana road warriors The Grand Slambovians (left) and string-band pop upstarts Darlingside (right) are excited to share the bill at the esteemed Norfolk, CT venue Infinity Hall, in part because each band reveres the other, but also because of Mark Twain. Legend has it the

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Food

AgriCulture: Going Rogue

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes. This is the season when we all make resolutions for improvement in the new year. While I consider myself a person of reason, not trapped in age old superstitions, I

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Food

January Salad With a Side of Inspiration

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, local politician, mother of two, and author of the new cookbook, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making (Clarkson Potter), dispenses change and cooking ideas to readers and friends. She shares her peak-of-the-season recipes with Rural Intelligence to

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Wellness

At Hudson Wellness Collective, Health As Human Right

Sarah Falkner, Masha Schmidt, Caroline Ruderman; Photo credit Nicholas Kahn There's nothing clinical about walking into the Hudson Wellness Collective, a center for healing arts that opened on Hudson’s bustling Warren Street last fall. Strings of tiny white lights and a paper lamp cast a warm glow

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Parties

RI's Memorable Parties of 2012

Above: Musicians David Byrne and Renée Albulario; Robert Montgomery, Jane Iredale, founder of Jane Iredale cosmetics, and MA State Representative Smitty Pignatelli; Sarah Patrick Morgese and her father, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick; realtor Nancy Kalodner and dancer Marge Champion; actor David Hyde Pierce and Karen Gold; jewelry designers Janis Kerman

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Food

AgriCulture: Ducks and Geese and Farmers Better Scurry

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. It was the morning of our departure for a four-day getaway to New Orleans, Mark’s generous treat in celebration of my birthday. When one gets to a certain

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Community

Hudson Goes Giddy for the Holidays

Hudson, although far from being merely on the upswing, is still a study of contrasts. You can see this veering from the town’s more down- and- out areas to the retailers on Warren Street. These are not your everyday vendors; they are all so talented at window display that

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Parties

Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Celebrates Decades and Millions

Dale Stewart reports from Sheffield, MA.On Friday, December 14, the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation celebrated two milestones in one event: the Foundation itself turned 25 years-old, and it reached $100 million in grants in support of nonprofits and individuals in our region. To commemorate the accomplishments, the Foundation

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Parties

Nothing But Love at Moments House First Annual Holiday Community Party

Fiona Breslin reports from Pittsfield.It was a night of heart-swelling warmth on Thursday, December 13, as Pittsfield's Moments House drew friends and loved ones of all ages together for the organization's first Annual Holiday Community Party at Itam Lodge. Moments House is a Pittsfield-

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The Kitchenware of Columbia County

Mark Heidorn, owner of Hudson’s go-to kitchenware store Marx Home, and Lynne Michael, owner of Chatham’s American Pie, share a secret: Owning a cook’s store leaves very little time for actual cooking. “I don’t cook anymore,” says Heidorn who diligently stocks the shelves of his

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