On a winter night some time ago, friends gathered at Elizabeth’s in Pittsfield for a celebration, and as Tom Ellis, the proprietor, began thoughtfully explaining the specials, he added an extra: Henry Beston.
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Polenta smooth as softened butter with sausage crisp, tender and sharp. Thick-sliced ham with collard greens, biscuits and pickled cabbage. An apricot scone, somehow soft, warm and lightly dry, with butter and honey on the plate — we broke it into pieces with our fingers and dipped it in. On a […]
Read articleWilliamstown sees a quixotic start to a New Year
A traveler contemplates a dented, mildewed breast-plate and cuisses (thigh armor) piled on a watering trough … On a hard-frost night in January, we are sitting in a circle at the Log and reading Don Quixote.
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