This space is devoted to recommendations and reviews of things in and around the Hudson Valley, mainly within striking distance of Millbrook and Rhinebeck, the yin and yang of Dutchess. The lists are not “bests of” (ever subject to debate) but rather personal preferences…though I hope they will prove more…

Food and Restaurant Recommendation in Dutchess County
Being the breadbasket of New York does not guarantee that Hudson Valley restaurants will have the best bread…or the best anything for that matter. Still, they should start a leg up in the produce department given that local can easily mean right…

Long gone are the days you might happen upon an unidentified Cole, Cropsey or Kensett propped up in the corner of a sleepy Hudson Valley town antique shop. No, the ebays, antique roadshows and savvy dealers have surely ferreted most of them out. But perhaps…just perhaps one remains undiscovered, languishing…