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Getting Comfy in PUBLIC

Squirreled away doing back-office work for the North Adams restaurant Taylor’s for nearly two years, Jared Decoteau (left) harbored ideas about the changes he’d make to the place if given a chance. First and foremost, there were the eleven tap lines to the bar, tragically underutilized, he

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Earthy Roots: Creamy Potatoes and Celeriac

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, local politician, mother of two, and author of the new cookbook, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making (Clarkson Potter), dispenses change and cooking ideas at the Great Barrington Farmers’ Market. She shares her peak-of-the-season recipes with Rural

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Back in the Swim of Things

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes. Arriving back at the farm after being away for nearly a month, I had the distinct impression that I was returning to a somewhat different place from the one I

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Finally Home, Turkey In Retrospect

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter Davies writes from back in the states. After four weeks of traveling throughout Turkey, it occurred to me, upon returning to our farm in Germantown and attending the Sheep and Wool

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Prairie Whale, A New Hangout in Great Barrington

Lots of restaurants in the RI region profess to be farm-to-table.  And like so many of their well-intentioned customers, they keep the faith whenever they can, which is to say, when it isn’t too ruinously inconvenient, expensive, or arduous. Now Prairie Whale (formerly called Bell &

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Recipe: An Amber Cup With a Side of Rubies

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, local politician, mother of two, and author of the new cookbook, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making (Clarkson Potter), dispenses change and cooking ideas at the Great Barrington Farmers’ Market. She shares her peak-of-the-season recipes with Rural

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Bravo for Brava: Delicious Late Night Tapas in Lenox

Is it really 11 p.m. on a Tuesday night in downtown Lenox and we are sipping a craft beer and a crisp Cava, staring at a menu of delicious things that we can actually order at this time of night? Bruschetta with jamón and white anchovies? (Yes, please!) A

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Recipe: White Bean Soup with Garlic, Kale, and Sausage

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, local politician, mother of two, and author of the new cookbook, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making (Clarkson Potter), dispenses change and cooking ideas at the Great Barrington Farmers’ Market. She shares her peak-of-the-season recipes with Rural

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AgriCulture: Turkana in Turkey, The Journey Continued

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter Davies writes from a quiet cove near Ucagiz, Turkey. We have left the Black Sea hazelnut and tea regions for the beautiful, rocky, and arid Mediterranean coast (no rain at all

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A PYO Plethora of Macs and Jacks

Fall is teaming with brilliant golds, reds, and oranges this year. And I'm not just talking about the foliage. The beautiful bounty of the season is busting at the seams of the Rural Intelligence region. Apples and pumpkins, the sentinels of autumn, are ripe and ready for the

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Recipe: Apple Bread Brings Perfection to a Messy Kitchen

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, local politician, mother of two, and author of the new cookbook, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making (Clarkson Potter), dispenses change and cooking ideas at the Great Barrington Farmers’ Market. She shares her peak-of-the-season recipes with Rural

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Forrest's Sidestreet Café

A classic canteen that preceded the trendy food trucks

By Lisa Green