A jar of Golden Blossom honey, with its green and gold label, was always in a cupboard in the kitchen of my childhood. We didn’t reach for it often. In winter, I would drizzle it over a bowl of …
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By JUDE WATERSTON
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9/21/22
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When it comes to food in our household, my wife is the better chef, and I am the better baker. We share in both duties, but we bow to each other’s strengths.
As my regular readers will …
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By HUNTER HILL
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9/21/22
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NARROWSBURG, NY — At 11 a.m. on Saturday, September 24, join this small town and its bee enthusiasts to celebrate the honey bee.
National Honey Bee Day in August boosts awareness of honey …
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9/21/22
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Our family has been battling the sickness lately—influenza type B for those curious. Apparently it’s been going around lately and this just happened to be one of those times it got us …
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By Hunter Hill
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2/20/24
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GENEVA, NY — In compliance with the Open Meetings Law, the Cabbage Research and Development Program Advisory Board gives notice that it will conduct a meeting on Monday, February 5 at 10 am.
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1/31/24
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The great thing about growing up in my neighborhood in Liberty, NY, was that there were always other kids around—a lot of other kids. Let’s just say that we never had to worry about …
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By KIM M. SIMONS
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9/21/22
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HAWLEY, PA — Did you know that the taste of an herb is different, depending on the geographical location from which it was harvested? What about the consumer’s own genes? Would they have …
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9/21/22
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Before moving full-time to Callicoon, my sister Janet and I drove back and forth from Manhattan each weekend to spend Friday night through Sunday afternoon at our little country house.
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4/23/24
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My friends Joyce Salimeno-Gitlin and her late husband Mel were buzzing down Lake Louise Marie Road in Rock Hill, NY one day in 2018 when they noticed activity at the site of the old Dodge Inn …
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By KIM M. SIMONS
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4/23/24
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Spring has felt like a strange indecision between warm and cold weather this year. It started with an early maple-production window and quickly followed up with a bitter season after the abnormal …
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By HUNTER HILL
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4/23/24
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Unless you’re in Spain, if you mention that you have found a fantastic tapas bar, it’s likely you will be met with this response: “What were you doing in a topless bar?”
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By JUDE WATERSTON
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6/21/22
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When the raw food movement gained popularity a couple of decades ago, I was not sold. Who finds comfort in the midst of a bitter-cold winter eating uncooked kale?
We had a friend who plunged …
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By JUDE WATERSTON
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2/21/23
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Tomato salad, BLT, Caprese salad, tomato sandwich, cut tomatoes with salt, cheeseburgers with some tomato on top. Not uncreative options but particularly common all the same.
Everyone loves a …
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By HUNTER HILL
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6/21/22
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I like corn. It’s about as American a staple as I can think of when it comes to U.S.-produced food. With as much sweet corn as we go through each summer, it’s something we always have an …
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By HUNTER HILL
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2/21/23
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My sister Janet and I have found that we are the perfect traveling companions. This cannot be said of just anyone. My first trip to Europe was with my friend Katie, whom I had known since I was 10 …
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By JUDE WATERSTON
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3/26/24
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“Would you be interested in making a life-sized mounted deer cake for my hunting camp’s one-hundredth anniversary?”
I’ve had many an offbeat conversation with my friend …
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By KIM M. SIMONS
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3/26/24
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They say everyone is a little bit Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. Whether you agree with that adage or not, I’ve yet to meet someone who can’t appreciate a well executed piece of corned …
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By HUNTER HILL
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3/26/24
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“Pizza is not a dinner food,” my father, Jack I. Simons, decreed. “Pizza is a snack!”
As anyone who knew my father can tell you, he was an honorable man—and one of …
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By KIM M. SIMONS
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2/21/23
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HONESDALE, PA. — Penn State Extension will offer “Home Food Preservation: Hands-On Jams and Jellies Training” from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday, July 10 at the Penn State Extension …
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6/28/23
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Since my junior year in high school, when I grew mung bean sprouts between moist paper towels in my mother’s dish cupboard, my consumption and knowledge of sprouts has expanded.
For a …
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By JACQUELINE HERMAN
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12/17/22
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