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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.

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Roasted Cauliflower with Spiced Breadcrumbs

Amy Cotler, author of The Locavore Way: Discover and Enjoy the Pleasures of Locally Grown Food (Storey Publishing), says her husband who doesn't like cauliflower loved this recipes. "I cut it into steak-like slabs, roasted until slightly brown to bring out its nutty flavor, then topped it

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Migliorelli Farm--a Heavensent for Hudson

In 1933, when Angelo Migliorelli emigrated from the Lazio region of Italy to New York City, he brought along some broccoli raab seeds, which he soon planted on land he acquired in the Bronx. He and his son Rocco farmed and peddled vegetables there until the mid-1960s, when Rocco was

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Baby Bok Choy Stir Fry

Mark Twain said cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education, but he might have been talking about bok choy, which I think of as cabbage that went to college in Asia. Baby Bok Choy, a variety of Chinese cabbage, offers eaters both silky mild greens with a subtle

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AgriCulture: The Changing Face of Farming

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Peter writes: “Funny, they don’t look like farmers,” said one of the painters working on the barn across the street, clearly loud enough for me to hear, when we first moved in.

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The Other Turkey: Not the Bird, the Country

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Mark writes: We are back from Turkey. Well traveled and all-too-well fed, and pleased that the farm came through with only a few small disasters, and in very good order. We thank Beth

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Last Chance Sandwich: Eggplant and Arugula

To be a locavore is to live on the cutting edge. The end of the season for harvesting any given vegetable differs depending on where you live, and Amy Cotler, author of the forthcoming The Locavore Way: Discover and Enjoy the Pleasures of Locally Grown Food, has come up with

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Tomatillo Salsa: Sunshine In Your Freezer

Amy Cotler, the author of The Locavore Way: Discover and Enjoy the Pleasures of Locally Grown Food, which will be published next month, shares another one of her of-the-moment recipes: Now that the edges of the trees are tinged with color, I feel the push to put things up for

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Final Call for Corn-and-Tomato Soup

"I should have called this Last Chance Soup," says Amy Cotler, who's been living and cooking in the Berkshires for nearly two decades. The soup is not only another way to savor the last corn of the year but also a last chance to use cherry

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AgriCulture: a Vacation From or On the Farm?

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Mark writes: We are eagerly anticipating our impending vacation. It has been three years since we’ve been able to travel together for more than a 4-day weekend. With the anticipation comes no

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Raise a Glass To Food Writing! May It Long Endure

"There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer, when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love." Long, long before there was a Julie and long before we

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9/11/09: Not Just Another Friday at the Farm

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Mark writes: Those of you who have spent any social time with us undoubtedly know how large the date of September 11 looms in our life story. We've undoubtedly told you

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Hot Stuff!! Chili Cook-off Seeks Entrants

Attention Tex-Mex lovers and habanera pepper cravers! Does the term ‘hot stuff” describe your chili? Every time you taste someone else's, do you find yourself thinking, "You call this chili?" If so, the Hudson Valley Chili Cook-Off could be your opportunity to finally get the recognition

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