Theresa and Jeff Logan of the Cheese Plate Photo by Julie O'Connor) Do you say “cheese, please”? Let’s be fromage...

Photo of Joann Cohen by Megan Labrise There’s a billboard on Route 9, just south of downtown Rhinebeck, urging motorists...

Rose Levy Beranbaum (photo by Ben Fink) More than 26 years ago, Rose Levy Beranbaum was living in Manhattan and working...

  There has never been a more spirited time to get into local booze, brews and ciders: Backyard brewmasters with...

David Shafer’s debut Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is commonly called a “techno-thriller.” And while it is, technically, the tale of a...

Alice Waters (Gilles Mingasson | Courtesy of the Author) For someone synonymous with Northern California, Alice Waters has been springing...

Eleven of the area’s best bartenders swizzled their stuff for an all-star judges’ panel and the public at the Hudson...

(Stan-one) Used to be, not long ago, if you asked for a fancy cocktail in the Hudson Valley, you were...

Modernist Collection (photo by Francisco Migoya) Francisco Migoya is a confectionary visionary. Take his Hudson Valley Mountain Range ($35, one...

Whitecliff Vineyard in Gardiner The Hudson Valley has been called the Napa Valley of the East, but maybe it should...

Pasta: as Italian as apple pie is American. You hear the word, you think the baked ziti on the white...

Stockade Tavern in Uptown Kingston. On the border of Milan, New York, visible from Route 199, there is a capsule-shaped...

Display at Cheese Louise in Kingston. Do you say “cheese, please”? Let’s be fromage friends. A slice on a sandwich,...

Saffron rice pudding at Café East. It’s unfair to review a restaurant less than a month after opening. It forces...

Carmella Quattrociocchi (photo courtesy of Quattro’s farm store) I broke my own rule: If a place is known for a...

(Photo by Megan Labrise) Energy bars have never really been my thing – too chalky, and what’s in them, anyway?...

Chef Amanda Cohen in action in the pages of Dirt Candy: A Cookbook by Cohen and Ryan Dunlavey Amanda Cohen...

The Stockade’s interior (Maggie June Salesman) There was a time when drinking felt deliciously illicit: an inconspicuous tavern, a door...

Chef/author Ric Orlando of New World Home Cooking in Saugerties. A New Year, a new opportunity to cook healthier or...

Oliver Kita’s Virgin Mary manifested in chocolate. So one can envision the scent of roses, Oliver added candied whole rose...