July 2018

Tasteful Inspirations

A fruitful partnership

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Christopher Colom, the executive chef at Equus, the restaurant in Tarrytown’s Castle Hotel & Spa, partners with Taliaferro Farm in New Paltz to offer patrons the freshest farm-to-table experience.

Divinely Detailed

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If God is in the details, then surely he must live in this 1930 Norman château on Mayfair Lane in Greenwich, which has a trove of exquisite details.

Reporting from the edge of paradise

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If there’s one person who knows Puerto Rico – its resilient, independent spirit, its recent fiscal challenges and even more recent physical ones as a result of Hurricanes Irma and Maria – it’s Julio “Gaby” Acevedo, who leads the San Juan bureau of NBC 4 New York and Telemundo 47.

Minding the business

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From scooping ice cream and breaking down wine boxes as a teenager in Stew Leonard’s supermarkets to marketing and advertising its wines as an adult, Blake Leonard has always been part of the family business, sharing its passion for quality food and wine.

A check on healthy eating

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The “living pantry” at Bouley Botanical provides a perfect location for David Bouley’s ongoing series, “The Chef and The Doctor,” in which Bouley collaborates with health professionals to focus on the benefits of food for well-being in a multitude of areas

Boqueria, the restaurant – in print

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The Boqueria restaurants, conceived by Yann de Rochefort, are by all accounts a success. And who doesn’t love a restaurant success story? Especially when it results in a hefty and impressive jacketless, paper-over-board cookbook.

The Tiffany story, in full

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The cachet of owning tabletop or decorative goods by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) remains to this day. Lyndhurst is exploring the decorative-arts legend, including his ties to Irvington, with “Becoming Tiffany: From Hudson Valley Painter to Gilded Age Tastemaker,” through Sept. 24.

Reshaping the Hudson’s food scene

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Both Hudson Farmer & the Fish and RiverMarket Bar & Kitchen are helping anchor the sprawling, architecturally appealing Hudson Harbor condominium development that has enticed residents with expansive water views, bucolic towns and walking access to the train.

Please don’t eat the silkworms

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Authentic Chinese food contains many exotic dishes, including crispy, spicy silkworms. But you may want to let the little guys continue to spin their silken cocoons instead of eating them.

Making bread – in more ways than one

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It was 20 years ago that we experienced cinnamon bread nirvana – a loaf so doughy, so creamy, so oozing with cinnamon-y goodness that we had to go the source itself. Since then, we’ve watched The Kneaded Bread become a prime treat in Port Chester.