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Recipe: Halloween Leftovers?

By Francine Segan You are going to love this healthy dessert from Italy. Yes, dessert and healthy can be used in the same sentence! It’s a little like a deconstructed fruit cake--only scrumptious and strikingly pretty. In an air-tight container or Ziploc plastic bag, combine your favorite

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Scary Fall Stew

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

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Serevan: A Taste of Armenia in Amenia

By Elizabeth Goldfarb Richardson Back in the old days (the 80's), the humor magazine Spy had a column called "Not to Be Confused." Amenia and Armenia could have been included in this always amusing section of the magazine. Just to clarify, if need be: The former

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Recipe: Sweet and Savory Ravioli

By Francine Segan To celebrate Italian Heritage Month, Columbus Day, and the wonderful pears and grapes in season right now, try this unusual savory-sweet pasta dish. Fruit and pasta may sound like a modern fad, but the combo has a long history. My passion for pasta with fruit began

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A Pasta for Pasta Month

By Francine Segan I love food holidays. Oh, I don’t mean holidays when we eat special foods, I mean the hundreds of weird but wonderful days, weeks, and months dedicated to a particular food. October is not only National Pasta Month but also National Apple Month and National Cookie

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Dining: Caught In Charlotte's Web

By Don  RosendaleCharlotte’s Restaurant is my “local." It’s two miles up the road from my Millbrook farm, and I've eaten at the site (including three prior restaurants with different names) at least once a week for the last 30 years. That comes to, give or

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Pick Your Own Time: An Apple (Or Plum, Pear, Or Pumpkin) A Day

Photo courtesy of Kwaree Blog By Tim Eustis Having gorged ourselves on the summer fruits and vegetables of our area, it’s time now to explore the autumnal offerings at pick-your-own orchards and farms. Apples galore are everywhere, and you can also find mums, plums, pears, pumpkins, and

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Surprise Red Pepper Soup

This intense soup combines your local harvest with Eastern seasonings and a touch of butter to round it all out. It's terrific eaten immediately with crusty bread--I couldn't help myself--but radically better the next day. Serve for lunch or as a first course, rather

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Recipe: Warm Fava Shallot Couscous

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

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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

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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

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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

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