Subject: Hudson Valley

• What's For Dinner?

  July 8, 2008

• Original Carvel Stand Closes, Nation Mourns

  October 6, 2008

• White Christmas Tourist Crap, Say Critics

  November 24, 2008

• This Week in the Voice (Updated)

  Sure, forcing food down ducks' gullets sounds harsh, but Sarah DiGregorio held her nose and went to a New York foie gras farm -- and reports that it wasn't so bad. "I don't think it's OK to cut the fin off a shark and throw it back into the water," she says. "If I had seen with my own eyes that Hudson Valley produced foie gras by abusing ducks, this article would have turned out very differently." See why. 89-year-old Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau is still kicking white-collar ass. Not only d

  February 18, 2009

• Foie Gras: Fork in the Road Investigates

  Photo by Amol MhatreTwo weekends ago, I went up to Ferndale, NY to check out Hudson Valley Foie Gras, the nation's largest foie gras farm and see for myself exactly how it's made. I saw everything from the chicks to the force-feeding process to the slaughter. The endless back and forth over foie gras--this impeccably credentialed vet says foie gras is torture, this impeccably credentialed vet says it's humane--seemed to have no resolution except to go up and see it for myself. Although I'm a mea

  February 18, 2009

• Ever Had a Nice Bottle of Greenpoint?

  Bringing the wine to the people: the new generation of urban winemakers

  April 8, 2008

• Notes on the Biz (What's Left of It)

  On metal, genre-based critical bias, layoffs, industry hysteria, and the Loudness Wars

  January 21, 2009

• Letters

  February 25, 2009

• Letters

  March 4, 2009

• Letters

  March 11, 2009

• Drama at New York's Only Wholesale Farmers' Market

  June 10, 2008

• It's All About the Brine

  May 9, 2006

• Boola, Boola, Boola!

  May 25, 1999

• Boyle Wonder

  November 10, 1998

• Song of My Elf

  December 29, 1998

• Mind-Body Problem

  January 26, 1999

• Imitation of Life

  March 30, 1999

• So Shad

  May 11, 1999

• Porn Yesterday

  July 27, 1999

• Watershed Fallout

  October 5, 1999

• Millennial Matchup

  January 4, 2000

• Shock Corridor

  March 7, 2000

• Deliciousness Tour Ends Tonight with Red Hook Party

  September 7, 2007

• Past Action Heroes; Insane Clone Posses

  November 21, 2000

• Letters

  January 7, 2003

• Letters

  September 14, 2004

• Hillary Gets Two Surprise Challengers

  November 29, 2005

• Urban Buttgirl Meets Rural Right

  December 19, 2006

• Ed Lachman, Chameleon, at BAM

  Plus: Peter Hutton at MOMA

  May 6, 2008

• Art Imitates Life Imitating Art in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York

  The world is a stage

  October 22, 2008

• Is Foie Gras Torture?

  February 18, 2009

• David Chang on Foie Gras

  Eater has a very thoughtful piece by David Chang about serving foie gras in his restaurants. Apparently, an activist stopped by Ko to tell Chang that his group would start to picket the restaurant if he didn't stop serving the liver. Chang has been to Hudson Valley Foie Gras farm, (so have I) and feels that the ducks are being raised humanely (so do I). Quoth the Chang:We stand behind the meat we cook with and the people who raise it. We do not support factory farming or the mistreatment of anim

  March 27, 2009

• The Next Frontier of the Stem Cell Debate

  June 17, 2009

• What Is the New York Foodshed, Anyway?

  galleyslave/flickrNot the New York foodshed. In an article he wrote for the Huffington Post last week, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer outlined his plans for making food policy a priority for city government. Among the initiatives he mentioned was a city "foodshed...consisting of farms in a given radius of the city where growers of healthy food would have special access to city markets and from which government purchasers of food would be required to buy a certain percent of thei

  July 23, 2009

• Mad Men Has the Right Stuff (to Drink); A Good Year for Peaches

  ​Late-night revelers are still "discovering" the halal food cart at 53rd Street and Sixth Avenue, which was started in 1992 by Mohamed Abouelenein, who wanted to serve taxi and limousine drivers sick of hot dogs. [NY Times] Cocktails are a vital element of the AMC series Mad Men. Drinks historians and experts, such as Dale DeGroff, formerly of the Rainbow Room, say the portrayal of 1960s drinking culture in high-powered New York has mostly -- minus a blunder or two -- been accurate on the

  August 12, 2009

• Bartenders Who Grow Their Own

  Southern Foodways/flickr​Farming isn't just for locally minded chefs anymore: Bartenders, too, are now taking to the fields. An article published today on Gourmet's website explores the growing number of barkeeps who are doing things like harvesting sugar cane and agave leaves, asking: "Just as chefs have become increasingly intimate with their ingredients (to the point where they may even grow their own), are we moving toward a time when top bartenders will be involved in selecting the gr

  August 12, 2009

• New Amsterdam's Robert La Valva Talks Cake and Vendors

  thoughtsonthetable.wordpress.com​Among the many matters that Robert LaValva must attend to before his New Amsterdam Market returns to the South Street Seaport next month is that of cake. Specifically, the kind of cake that may or may not be sold at the stand run by Saltie's, the new bakery from Marlow and Sons' former chef, Caroline Fidanza.

  August 13, 2009

• Beach Eats, Food Trucks & Stadium Snacks

  ​Hungry Girl heads to the new Yankee Stadium to scope out tasty low-cal foods and finds Lobel's Steak Sandwich (464 calories), Nathan's Grilled Chicken Sandwich (380 calories), and cotton candy (175 calories). [NY Times] The Hudson Valley, once known as New York's "breadbasket," is full of greenmarkets. The Hyde Park market attracts locals and visitors, and sometimes has cooking demonstrations. The tiny Hillsdale market allows you to meet the growers. [NY Times] TONY rounds up the best b

  August 14, 2009

• Cookbook Tester: Hudson Valley Mediterranean by Laura Pensiero

  Watermelon fennel salad with bluefish dijonnaise​ Hudson Valley Mediterranean is written by Laura Pensiero, the chef/owner of Gigi Trattoria in Rhinebeck, NY, and Gigi Market in Red Hook (not Brooklyn), NY. Pensiero presents the Hudson Valley as the "Napa of the East," and the book's recipes, which are categorized by season, are accordingly Alice Waters-esque. So for summer, we get panzanella, tomato-basil soup, grilled steak and arugula, and so on. It's a little bit dull, but if you need

  August 27, 2009

• Posts of the Week

  It's Friday afternoon. And these are the week's best posts.Bartenders are crazy. Which is why they enjoy doing shots of Fernet-Branca.Former Marlow & Sons chef Caroline Fidanza prepares to set sail at Saltie.Our 10 Best Food-Themed Pop Songs: Who knew a peach could be so thoroughly debauched?Umami, explained!Even the city's dive bars now have signature cocktails.Gay marriage and lackluster seafood played prominent roles in this week's installment of Top Chef.Hudson Valley Mediterranean is a

  August 28, 2009

• Orange 'Tomato' Eggplant Appears

  ​ Small pumpkins? No, eggplants! Recently arrived in area farmers markets is the orange Turkish eggplant, also known as the tomato eggplant for its resemblance to a tomato. The specimens gathered at Abingdon Square this past Saturday are firm-fleshed, and had to be set aside for a few days to ripen. Soil conditions determine whether the fruit has sweet or bitter juices (which must be evacuated by osmosis, by slicing the eggplant and covering the exposed interior with salt, then squeezing

  September 9, 2009

• GRAND OL' PAGAN: What Does the Republican 'Heathen' Running for New York's City Council Actually Believe?

  In a photograph from New Normandy's website, Dan Halloran leads a heathen ritual.​Conservative. Republican. Pagan? It was an odd news story that briefly upended what should have been a sleepy City Council race in Bayside: the Queens Tribune reported that a conservative Republican was running a strong race in the 19th district and had a chance to win in the overwhelmingly Democratic city. But this was a conservative Republican with a difference: Dan Halloran is the spiritual leader of a lo

  October 26, 2009

• Our 10 Best Wine Shops in NYC (and NJ)

  ​Some wine shops go crazy with the signage, as with this European vineyard vehicle parked in front of the Seaport's Pasanella & Son. But will it make our top 10? What does Fork in the Road look for in a wine store? A broad selection of wines, from France, Italy, Spain, and California; smaller selections from such further-flung locales as Oregon, South Africa, Chile, Austria, and Australia; quirky, surprising choices from places like Hungary, Morocco, Canada, and even Mexico; and vintages

  October 30, 2009