Food Dining: At Pizzeria Posto, The Pie's The Thing By Alice McGowan It takes a certain amount of guts for a restaurant to offer a limited menu, even if it's a pizzeria. Especially when it’s a pizzeria located in a region that’s nothing if not rich with New York pizza experts hungry for a pie By Editor
Food Recipe: Puerco Pibil This week's recipe is from Berkshire-based duo The Butcher & The Baker. The Butcher is Jake, a nose-to-tail butcher/artist, who loves to cook and grew up in the woody hills of Western Massachusetts where his passion for local, fresh food was first instilled in By Editor
Food Cheddar Making 101: Sharpen Your Artisanal Skills By Betsy Miller Peter Kindel demonstrates cheese-making techniques in a class on Burratta cheese held earlier this year. Why, when every market, every artisanal shop and nearly every farm stand offers a variety of cheeses, would anyone want to make cheese from scratch? Nobody could argue with the fine By Editor
Food Recipe: Spicy Lentil 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 By Editor
Food Recipe: Lamb and Freekeh Stew This week's recipe is from Berkshire-based duo The Butcher & The Baker. The Butcher is Jake, a nose-to-tail butcher/artist, who loves to cook and grew up in the woody hills of Western Massachusetts where his passion for local, fresh food was first instilled in By Editor
Food Shunpike Dairy: Milk So Fresh, You Pour It Yourself By Don Rosendale Every day or so, Kelly Fierrevante drives to the Shunpike Dairy in Millbrook to fill a container of raw milk for her three sons. She says she makes the trip, and pays more than what she might for a quart of milk in the supermarket, not only By Editor
Food Recipe: Kohlrabi Fries 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 By Editor
Food Homemade Peppermint-Stick Ice Cream This week's recipe is from Berkshire-based duo The Butcher & The Baker. The Butcher is Jake, a nose-to-tail butcher/artist, who loves to cook and grew up in the woody hills of Western Massachusetts where his passion for local, fresh food was first instilled in By Editor
Food Vanilla Cardamom Baked Apples 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 By Editor
Food Recipe: Brisket Chili This week's recipe is from Berkshire-based duo The Butcher & The Baker. The Butcher is Jake, a nose-to-tail butcher/artist, who loves to cook and grew up in the woody hills of Western Massachusetts where his passion for local, fresh food was first instilled in By Editor
Food The Gift of Cuisine: A Class at the CIA By Don Rosendale Last Saturday I learned how to cook risotto without it turning into mush; how to make mozzarella from scratch; how to mix flour and eggs and crank them through an old-fashioned pasta machine to make tagliatelle; that peppers slice more easily if you cut from the By Editor
Food Recipe: Farinata — Comfort In A Bowl Margaret Roach, our Hudson Valley neighbor, is author of a trio of bestselling books, A Way to Garden, And I Shall Have Some Peace There, and The Backyard Parables. Formerly editorial director at Martha Stewart Living, Margaret publishes a wildly popular blog, A Way to Garden, called “the best garden By Editor