Tag Archives: Slow Food Saratoga Region

It’s Berry Season at Gardenworks

The peak of the local raspberry season is right now and there are none better than at Gardenworks Farm in Salem, New York, literally just up the road from The Battenkill Creamery.
This Tuesday, August 30th,  Slow Food Saratoga Region and [...]

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Food, Farms & the Future at Skidmore College

 
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Dinner with The Doc & The Rock

        

Join us for a Private Fundraising Dinner & Screening

THE LAST CROP
A new film-in-progress by Chuck Schultz and David A. Ranghelli

Date and Time: September 10th     6:30-11PM
Location:  175 Fuller Road Queensbury, N.Y. 12804                            
Watch the trailer:

The Last Crop new 3 [...]

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A Slow Picnic on Top of the World

Kim Feeney and Kevin London

Slow Food Saratoga Region president Kim Feeny and her husband, Chef Kevin London, once again hosted the Slow Food Saratoga Region Chapter at their farm-to-table Lake George restaurant for one of our monthly dinners. The restaurant, [...]

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Lamb Meatballs with Shiitakes in a Curried Yogurt Sauce

For the annual Slow Food Saratoga Region Meeting and Potluck I decided to do something a little different, while still incorporating some of the area's finest product. I liked the idea of making meatballs, but as I have [...]

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Mugaritz Stagiere’s Knives Fund Details

Under the auspices of Slow Food Saratoga Region and Slow Food USA, I have set up a fund through firstgiving to aid those stagiere's, including Slow Food Saratoga Region's own Greg Kuzia-Carmel, who lost their valuable knives and potentially their [...]

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A Slow Dinner at Cafe Lazio

 

It's not called “comfort food” for
nothing. The most recent Slow Food Saratoga Region monthly restaurant
dinner was held at what has become my favorite local restaurant (as
regular readers of my blog most likely already know) – Cafe Lazio
in Queensbury, [...]

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Taste of the Week – January 24th-30th: Rocky’s Lasagna

Sometimes I think it is a lot easier for non Italian-Americans to appreciate lasagna. For Italian-Americans lasagna is very, very personal, perhaps more so than for any other Italian-American dish. While I can like a lasagna other than [...]

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Taste of the Week – January 10th -16th – Laphroaig and Trotters at Max London’s

I am no expert on Scotch, but thanks to Nigel Manley and the Slow Food Saratoga Region benefit dinner at Max London's Restaurant in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., I am a little more knowledgeable, a little more experienced and [...]

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Saratoga Wine & Food Festival 2009

The weather once again wasn't ideal, but that didn't stop a lot of people from sampling a wide variety of wines and foods, both local and from afar. Sponsored by The Italian Trade Commission, this year's festival had a decidedly [...]

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