Food

Discover the best food, farms, and dining in the Hudson Valley, Berkshires, and Litchfield Hills. Rural Intelligence shares local restaurant reviews, seasonal recipes, and stories celebrating regional flavor.

Food

Recipe: Two Carrot Dishes For 20/20 Vision

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, mother of two, and author of the 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 help us make the most of

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Columbia County's Oldest Bars Still Have A Lot to Offer, Even Good Grub!

By Jamie Larson An old Columbia County bar can be a thing of great beauty if you look at it from the right angle. The squeaking door, the dim glow of red-brown light over a long plank of wood, worn-in patches from the thousands of familiar forearms and perspiring tumblers.

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Recipe: Beets Two Ways

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, mother of two, and author of the 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 help us make the most of

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John Andrews Farmhouse Restaurant: A Revisit, This Time With The Family

By Elizabeth Goldfarb Richardson You may not have realized it when reading some of my reviews here, but my dear husband Edgar--despite his preference for ordering hamburgers at many of the finer culinary places we have visited in the region-- is British. Which means, of course, that his family is

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Spice Is Nice: Summer Squash Soup

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, mother of two, and author of the 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 help us make the most of

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Too Good Not To Share: Lemon Balsamic Chicken

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, mother of two, and author of the 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 help us make the most of

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Easy-Peazy, Corn Salad with a Lime Squeezy

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, mother of two, and author of the 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 help us make the most of

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The Serious Business of Making Ice Cream, Au Naturel

by Jamie Larson Good ice cream, really good ice cream, can be a time machine. On a hot summer day, a lick of that perfect scoop, cold and creamy, rich and smooth, stops time, melts away worries, and becomes that one scoop you’ve enjoyed since childhood. But any time

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Early To Rise: Fried Green Tomatoes

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, mother of two, and author of the 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 help us make the most of

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AgriCulture: The Corn Is Green

It is harvest time. Tomatoes are starting to turn, green beans are weighing on the vine and it’s almost to the point where you can’t even give away your cucumbers anymore – there are just so many! Farmer’s markets are in full swing and one of the things

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After All These Years: Blueberry Ricotta Coffee Cake

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, mother of two, and author of the 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 help us make the most of

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A Welcome Tweak: No. Six Depot Roastery and Café

By Elizabeth Goldfarb Richardson Living in this region is a joy a minute (OK a joy an hour), but I, or more often husband Edgar, sometimes tire of all the driving. The need for as many delectable coffee destinations as possible is something we both can appreciate while schlepping to

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