Today I walked out of the cold drizzle into Dottie’s Coffee Lounge and thought it must be about the warmest place in Pittsfield.
Read articleWe follow food in the Berkshires into all kinds of stories. Around here we can be laid back and experienced at the same time. We have third-generation family farms, and we have Brooklyn chefs looking for a closer tie to the land. Sometimes they work together. Sometimes the chefs are farmers, and the farmers are chefs.
Some are born here, and some have come from around the world, from Malaysia to Australia. They blend a sense of flavor and a sense of humor. Looking purple potato chips? Grass-fed burger with blue cheese? Dumplings and shumai? Strawberries warm from the sun? We’ll find them. Come with us.
Sourdough rises at Berkshire Mountain Bakery
Loaves of white bread are entering and leaving the oven on a long wooden paddle. Rounded boules cooling, rich with chunks of dark Belgian chocolate — and ciabatta, seven grain bread, potato and onion …
Read articleRare local flavors converge at Moon in the Pond Farm
Dominic Palumbo raises Highland cattle, Jersey geese and Dorset sheep, as he grows vegetables and forages for local flavors.
Read articleThankful for the mountains — #berkshireweekend
Windy Hill Orchard grows rows of winterberry bushes every year. You can walk into a sea of scarlet higher than your head, and they’re bright even on cold, cloudy afternoons.
Read articleBohemian Nouveaux Bakery branches out
After two years of growing connections in the community, Dede Weber is planning to open her own BoHo Café on Eagle Street, tapping into deep local roots.
Read articleSweet Sam Bakes with brio
On a winter morning in Williamstown, Berkshire actor and theater artist Tara Franklin sees herself in the kitchen with her mother and husband and son, baking spritz cookies.
Read articleGetting out into the warm days of fall color — #berkshireweekend
Walking across the grass, I looked for old friends gathering around the barn. They had a fire going in the fire pit and a pot of cider stat on the stones to keep hot.
Read articleSunny fall days comfort us with apples (#Berkshireweekend)
Some of us picked up bags of apples from Lakeview Orchard — Macouns, Honeycrisps, Cortlands — and some were setting up in a friend’s kitchen …
Read articleLakeview Orchard beckons in apple time
On a sunny Saturday when the afternoon stretched clear ahead of me, I headed up to Lakeview Orchards when apple season was just coming in …
Read articleNudel surprises and surpasses all expectations
Nudel surprised us with a playful place and an experimental and innovative menu — awardwinning chef Bjorn Somlo has run his highly seasonal farm-to-table restaurant in Lenox for 13 years.
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