Adherents say they've lost weight and think more clearly, and testing shows they don't have any nutritional deficiencies. But is...

The maligned zucchini is the cliched veg of overabundance, spilling out of home gardens in great quantities, big as baseball...

Healthy diet and exercise are best, granted, but many health claims are made for other edible, imbibable and poppable substances,...

In the Hudson Valley, ag still rules! A big early-20th-century barn has popped up at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in...

Go with the flow, just hold those ‘pumpkin spices’

(Photo by Jennifer Brizzi) Anticipating all that appears as the earth comes back to life at this time of year,...

Photo by Dion Ogust You can hardly turn around in the Hudson Valley without bumping into another health-focused festival. Relatively...

(Photo care of the restaurant’s website) Jennifer Brizzi explores the explosion of local food products   In these times most...

  I didn’t even know what crowdsourcing really meant until last week. When I was looking for a logo for...

(Photo by Janet Holmes) Local vegans at the Catskill Animal Sanctuary pay homage to living turkeys via photography, “adopting” them...

The Ice House is a participant in Hudson Valley Restaurant Week, which ends on November 16. (courtesy of Poughkeepsie Ice...

Hudson Valley Restaurant Week will feature more than 200 eateries, including Terrapin in Rhinebeck (above). Have you been wanting to...

On the eve of the second enrollment period for Obamacare — which begins November 15 — insurers in the state...

I always thought that artificial sweeteners were kind of silly, for those of us without diabetes, that is, and maybe...

Photo by Flickr user aearlsnd/used under Creative Commons license A newer alternative to the classic spinal fusion surgery for spinal...

Hudson Food Studio (above) and spicy crab cakes (below). It doesn’t get any fresher and more local than this. With...

  It’s reminiscent of Fantastic Voyage, the sci-fi story (both a film and a novel) in which a team of...

Séraphine Bakery’s delicious macarons Beam yourself to France for half an hour by diving into a chocolate truffle tart with...

Murray’s in Tivoli (photo by Roy Gumpel) It’s about the community, they say. “We’re not a coffeeshop and we’re not...

Jason Schuler of Drink More Good Most soda has a bad rap. It’s mass-produced by corporations, way too high in...