Rural Intelligence (Page 699)

Food

Spirits: At a Recent Tasting, A Local Cider Ruled!

In England, the word "cider" (and, in France, "cidre") describes a carbonated beverage containing alcohol—as little as 3% in France, as much as 8.5% in England (wine is usually between 11% and 14%). On this side of the Atlantic, a fermented cider is referred

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Food

Berkshire Organics: Fresh Produce Plus, Delivered to Your Door

Fresh-picked, organic vegetables year 'round, from as nearby as the weather will allow, delivered to your door once a week. No, this is not some pie-in-the-sky fantasy; this is Berkshire Organics, a business founded in May 2008 by Aleisha Gibbons, now 30. Gibbons, who grew

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Food

AgriCulture: Can The Family Farm Be Saved?

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Mark writes: After the bone chilling cold of a few weeks ago, we’ve rebounded and had some perfect autumn weather. Some of the fall crops, such as leeks, brussels sprouts and turnips,

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Community

Live & Let's Give: Shopping for A Good Cause

Community art sales are as common in our region as Subaru wagons and chamber-music concerts, so what makes the Live and Let's Give Sale this weekend at the Lichtensten Center for the Arts different? Of course, it's for the worthiest cause: Charley's Fund,

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Arts

Norman Rockwell's American Dream: The Auteur Theory

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Parties

Art for Animals: When the Model Barks

Art lovers and other animals thronged Spencertown Academy on Sunday afternoon for a benefit to support local companion dogs. The Academy walls were rich in canine portraiture by young, not-yet-established artists from Taconic Hills Central School, as well as by an astonishing array of art stars such as

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Parties

"1969: The Year of Gay Liberation" Exhibit Visits Locally

If you can't bring all of Columbia County to the New York Public Library, then bring an NYPL exhibition that is dear to your heart to Columbia County. Thus was the reasoning behind Carey Maloney and Hermes Mallea's Saturday, October 24, showing at their Germantown house

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Food

Roasted Cauliflower with Spiced Breadcrumbs

Amy Cotler, author of The Locavore Way: Discover and Enjoy the Pleasures of Locally Grown Food (Storey Publishing), says her husband who doesn't like cauliflower loved this recipes. "I cut it into steak-like slabs, roasted until slightly brown to bring out its nutty flavor, then topped

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Food

Migliorelli Farm--a Heavensent for Hudson

In 1933, when Angelo Migliorelli emigrated from the Lazio region of Italy to New York City, he brought along some broccoli raab seeds, which he soon planted on land he acquired in the Bronx. He and his son Rocco farmed and peddled vegetables there until the mid-1960s, when Rocco

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Style

Germain: Great Barrington's New House of Style

You wouldn't be surprised to find a loft-like store with a rural-zen aesthetic on Warren Street in Hudson, but in Great Barrington it feels like a world of wonder. "A woman came in this weekend and said, I feel like I'm in Brooklyn,

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Parties

Fall for Art Takes Millerton By Storm

Despite the heavy rains, every shop in Millerton was hopping on Saturday night for the first Fall for Art celebration, which promised 50 artists and 30 parties in 3 hours. At the Motorworks (left), which normally repairs vintage sports car, Alex Kramer had his friend Sophia Tarrasov hang her paintings

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Parties

FilmColumbia Festival-goers Celebrate

Despite the deluge, the Saturday night Sneak Preview, a George Clooney comedy, Up in the Air, was sold out, and after cineastes, including scores of visiting filmmakers, gathered at the Tracy Memorial Village Hall in Chatham to celebrate FilmColumbia Festival's tenth anniversary. Members of the documentary Axis of

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