Photo credit: Lisa Nichols. Food RSVP: Rural CT's Most Exclusive Reservation Reopens With Star Chef, Global Tasting Menu, and More Seatings Chef Bolivar Hilario spent years working some of New York's most demanding Michelin-starred kitchens before cold-calling his way into one of Connecticut's most mysterious restaurants. Twenty-five years after it opened, RSVP's secret is out. By Jamie Larson •
Food Actor Luca Calvani Talks New Vegetarian Tuscan Cookbook at Talbott & Arding Calvani, who runs a Tuscan guesthouse with his husband, joins olive oil importer Walter Pogliani for a conversation, an Italian wine reception, and three dishes from "A Tuscan Table" By Jamie Larson •
Food Hawthorne Valley Farm Buys Otto's Market, Reopens Next Monday The Ghent-based Biodynamic farm and Waldorf school is taking on stewardship of the Main Street market ahead of its 2027 centennial, the third ownership change for the space in less than two decades. By Jamie Larson •
Food "The Fungus Among Us": Mushroom Foraging Class in Litchfield The self-taught Litchfield Hills mushroom expert teaches identification and foraging basics on a two-hour forest walk. By Jamie Larson •
Food Hamrah's Lebanese Kitchen in Kinderhook Will Close October 31 Owners Julie and Theo Fels say growing sales couldn't keep pace with rising costs. Gift cards will be honored through the final day. By Jamie Larson •
Food Heirloom Fire Uses Food, Flame, and Nature to Tell Local Stories The Richmond-based open-fire caterer traces his whole business back to a single autumn hike—and has spent the decade since trying to give guests the same jolt of place he felt that day. By Jamie Larson •
Food Fall Food Finds: New Dishes, Harvest Dinners, and Cider Donuts From a smokehouse built on an apple orchard to the season's best-argued-about donuts, here's what's actually happening on plates across the region this harvest season. By Jamie Larson •
Food 25th Hudson Valley Wine & Food Festival More than 300 vendors, chef demonstrations, and a Riesling from four-time New York Winery of the Year Weis Vineyards mark a quarter-century in Rhinebeck. By Jamie Larson •
Food A Farm Table Dinner Debuts Hancock Shaker Village Textile Collaboration Michelin-starred chef David Israelow cooks beneath the late summer stars, with tables dressed in a new print collection reimagining Shaker gift drawings By Jamie Larson •
Food "Escape from NY, 1776": History and Beer at Lasting Joy Brewery "History Happy Hour: Escape from NY, 1776 Edition" has Dutchess County Historian Will Tatum continuing his real-time chronicle of the Revolutionary War at a brewery built on land where that history actually happened. By Jamie Larson •
Food Charmingly Neurotic "New Yorker" Cartoonists Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein Bring Their Kitchen Nightmares to MASS MoCA Two New Yorker cartoonists sit down with museum director Kristy Edmunds on October 17 to talk about the thing hiding at the back of everyone's refrigerator, ahead of their new book's release. By Jamie Larson •
Food "The Patriots Table": A Theatrical Open-Fire Dinner at Chesterwood A culinary journey inspired by Abraham Lincoln's inaugural banquet, staged on the Studio Piazza overlooking Monument Mountain. By Jamie Larson
