Food Farming: The Mid-Life Crisis Career Option Roberto Flores's face is a familiar one in the Berkshires. For 15 years, he owned and operated Seven Hills Inn, a 60 room mansion hotel next door to The Mount in Lenox, which he sold last spring. But he's a fresh face at the farmers' By Editor
Food Year Two: Project Sprout Continues to Flourish "Part of the job is eating on the job," says Sam Levin, snapping off and handing me a leaf of his favorite—an unfamiliar red "braising green" which, in its delicious raw form, has a spicey, wasabi-like taste. Exam week is coming up at Great Barrington& By Editor
Food Of Samba-ing Sows, an Utter Boar, and Duck, Duck, Goose Carmen, still waiting, with Vernon, the utter boar. Cigars are in order! At last, Miranda, one of our Tamworth/Ossabaw sows, has farrowed (‘given birth’ in pig farm lingo). Good thing too, as she looked ready to explode. The large size of the piglets suggests that she was late. She By Editor
Food Think Pink: Now Is The Time To Drink Rosé Whether he is selling a $10 bottle of wine or a $1 million house, Andrew Gates wants to see people fall in love. As both a real-estate broker at Sotheby's in Lakeville, CT, and a shopkeeper in Millerton, NY, he cultivates clients by paying attention to their specific By Editor
Food The Guru of Indian Cooking Comes to Cornwall In a world where the term "celebrity chef" is used to describe anyone who has ever cooked in front of a TV camera, Madhur Jaffrey is the real deal. Since publishing her first book, An Invitation to Indian Cooking (Knopf) in 1973, she has earned her celebrity by By Editor
Food Farming: The 60% Solution Here Mark Scherzer of Turkana Farms laments never being able to get more than 60% of the farm chores done. Yet the photographs he and Peter Davies sent of Turkana as it appears right now belies his claim that a high degree of chaos (40% to be precise) prevails. Makes By Editor
Food At Long Last, It's Strawberry Season Again If you're a regular at the Lenox Farmers's Market or Hudson Farmers' Market, you've already had a taste of summer. For the last couple of weeks, Bonnie and Ron Samascott of Samascott Orchards in Kinderhook have been selling their incredibly juicy and sweet By Editor
Food Cold Comfort: 8 Fruit Soup Recipes from "Cooking Know-How" "We refer to ourselves as the hardest working cookbook writers that no one has ever heard of," Mark Scarbrough said a few week ago before he and his life-partner and collaborator, Bruce Weinstein, left on a three-week publicity tour for their 15th book, Cooking Know-How (John Wiley & By Editor
Food Guinea Fowl - Exterminating Angels? Peter Davies of Turkana Farms writes: My interest in guinea fowl, dating back some thirty years, was probably initially more aesthetic than culinary. I liked the look of the flocks I saw moving like a single undulating organism across summer-house lawns in the Hamptons. I only learned about the racket By Editor
Food AgriCulture: Bottoms up! It's Rhubarb Season Mark Scherzer of Turkana Farms does the honors this week, with one small interjection by Peter Davies. We've been writing a lot about our animals lately, but there's another explosion of life happening on the farm these days of high mid-spring: vegetables. I thought we should By Editor
Food It's Beneficial To Indulge at the Berkshire Museum Wine Auction These aren't times for hedonism—unless your self indulgence can be construed as philanthropic, too. If you're an oenophile or sybarite, the Berkshire Museum's Biennial Wine Auction on Saturday, May 30, in Pittsfield offers many ways to splurge on yourself while also supporting the By Editor
