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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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