June 2007

Diners, the roadside kind, abound in my little corner of rural America. Directions to my home often begin with “Turn right at the diner” and it seems that I keep discovering new ones throughout the county.
I wish I could say that their meals were transcendent counter fare experiences. Mostly, we go to these [...]

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I started this as a way to track what I’m receiving from my local farm’s Community Supported Agriculture share, but I’ve been so busy getting this up and running, cooking, and generally trying to keep my life together that I haven’t gotten around to listing what we’ve been receiving, or what I’ve been making with [...]

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I still had berries left after the yogurt experiments. Some we picked, some a donation from a dinner guest (also local, also delicious.) I have never been a fan of strawberry pie, as it usually seems to come with a gelatinous glaze and those kiwi-size berries that look vaguely unreal. But I’d [...]

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As mentioned in my last post, a fellow foodie invited me strawberry picking last weekend at the beautiful, all-organic Thompson-Finch Farm in Ancram, NY. The kids came, too, and in spite of heat and humidity, we all had a blast. We only lasted about an hour, but that was enough time to fill [...]

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This week brought unexpected adventures both culinary and anthropological, with a trip to Graydon Carter’s subject-of-much-grousing remake of the once and perhaps future downtown legend Waverly Inn. Leave it to me, apparently socially unaware, to not know just how hard a table ours was to score. We were the guests of [...]

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Not the paper towels. I’m a 7th Generation girl, myself. But having just moved to the upper Hudson Valley, I find myself in the cradle of great eating, a little Alice Waters, a little diner, a whole lot of organic produce and neighborhood pork, poultry, beef and dairy.
To fully enjoy the abbondanza, I [...]

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