In Hudson Valley Mediterranean, Laura Pensiero, master chef, nutritionist, and creator of Gigi’s Hudson Valley, offers 150 magnificent recipes from her famed restaurant (Gigi Trattoria in Rhinebeck, NY) and market (Red Hook’s Gigi Market and Catering). A celebration of the produce and the people who grow it in this uniquely fertile region of New York State—often called “the East Coast Napa Valley”—Hudson Valley Mediterranean presents delicious interpretations of traditional Italian dishes made with healthy ingredients that highlight the bounty of the Valley’s farms, gardens, and artisans.
Thousands of years before Hendrik Hudson sailed his Half Moon up to modern day Albany in 1609, the glaciers that once blanketed the Hudson Valley retreated to the Arctic. What the ice left in its wake was a soil so rich that, in global satellite images taken today, the trench of its path still shows up as a jet black streak. Lured by this soil’s fertility came the family farmers of the Hudson Valley, who, over time, learned to glean the finest products that the land could provide. Today the Hudson Valley is an area rich in history and art, antiques and architecture, charming towns, and farms that produce bountiful local produce. America’s history comes alive here as does its beauty. Naturally, Hudson Valley restaurants boast outstanding chefs with a deep and growing commitment to supporting local agriculture. Hudson Valley farmers and artisans fill out the menus with sustainable raised produce, meats, poultry, eggs, cheese, wine and other fine foods. It’s creative cuisine at its best With over 80 recipes for the home cook from the state’s most celebrated eateries and showcasing full-color photos featuring mouth-watering dishes, famous chefs, and lots of local flavor, Hudson Valley Chef’s Table is a feast for the eyes as well as the palate. The delicious dishes featured here are personal histories––stories of people and place. Each recipe, chef profile, and photo tells its part of the story and magic of the Hudson Valley.
In Hudson Valley Mediterranean, Laura Pensiero, master chef, nutritionist, and creator of Gigi’s Hudson Valley, offers 150 magnificent recipes from her famed restaurant (Gigi Trattoria in Rhinebeck, NY) and market (Red Hook’s Gigi Market and Catering). A celebration of the produce and the people who grow it in this uniquely fertile region of New York State—often called “the East Coast Napa Valley”—Hudson Valley Mediterranean presents delicious interpretations of traditional Italian dishes made with healthy ingredients that highlight the bounty of the Valley’s farms, gardens, and artisans.
The ultimate guide to the Hudson River Valley's food scene provides the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate local culinary offerings. Written for residents and visitors alike to find producers and purveyors of tasty local specialties, as well as a rich array of other, indispensable food-related information including: food festivals and culinary events; specialty food shops; farmers’ markets and farm stands; trendy restaurants and time-tested iconic landmarks; and recipes using local ingredients and traditions.
New York's version of Los Angeles's famous La Brea Tar Pits? Sand Dunes in the city of Albany? Frederic Church's Olana, a gift of the Ice Age? A Niagara Falls in Philmont? Mastodons in Greenville? The Vanderbilt Mansion and Springwood, FDR's home in Hyde Park, at risk? Join Professors Robert and Johanna Titus on a tour of the Hudson Valley and see this familiar region with new eyes the eyes of geologists who see a half-mile-thick sheet of ice grinding its way down the valley and overtopping even the highest mountains. With the Tituses as your guides, -see- an ancient Manhattan high and dry with the Atlantic shoreline 100 miles to the southeast, North/South Lake State Park as a giant and frigid -waterslide park,- and the immense expanse of Glacial Lake Albany stretching the entire length of the Hudson Valley with its deltas that would become the sites of some of America's most famous estates. Finally, witness the cataclysmic flood that cascaded through the valley at the end of the Ice Age as a great ice dam broke and a gigantic wall of water swept down the valley. The Tituses take the reader through the Catskills, the Shawangunks, the Taconics, along the banks of the Hudson River, to Bash Bish Falls and Lake Taghkanic to all those unique and beautiful places that make the Hudson Valley -the landscape that defined America- and demonstrate that all this rose phoenix-like from the devastation caused by the slow, inexorable advance of a grinding, half-mile-thick bulldozer of ice and the raging flood that followed its retreat. The result of these devastating events is the landscape that inspired the Hudson River School painters and America's pioneer landscape architects gifts of the Ice Age, and the familiar landscape we enjoy today.
In the 1970s, renowned interior designer Juan Montoya lived on La Formentera, a Balearic Island off the Mediterranean coast of Spain. Later, near Garrison, New York, Montoya acquired land and built his place of solace, his own La Formentera. He fulfilled his dream of a property that could evoke the same majesty of that island’s rocky terrain, without the Mediterranean climate. The retreat is made up of an elegantly simple Japanese-style house and 100 acres of pristine landscape, shaped by Montoya himself. Setting out on the paths, one encounters massive stone sculptures, an inviting pool complex, and rustic shelters made of rough stone. A rushing brook runs through the property, and empties into a lake with a small island where thousands of daffodils bloom in the spring. La Formentera is the perfect refuge for Montoya, whose credo is, “I want to be surrounded by beauty and creativity.” Photographer Eric Piasecki has captured that beauty and creativity inherent to this unique place in all seasons—from the deep greens of summer, to the golden leaves of fall, to the pristine snow drifts of winter, to the first blush of spring. Karen Bloch's engaging text tells the remarkable story of the property, as well as the great pleasure it gives Juan Montoya and all who visit there.
"JOY IS A FORCE OF NATURE." - David A. Foster, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, Hunter College Have you arrived at that day of reckoning when you look in the mirror and find yourself admitting, "I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I feel. I wish I could start over again!" Well, you can. Joy Gross is living proof that when you change your diet and incorporate healthful practices into your life, you will end up looking and feeling brand new. You can revolutionize your entire approach to living. Maybe you'll even take up skydiving at the age of 81, as Joy did! "Joy's Recipes for Living Younger ... Longer" is not just another book about the virtues of eating better for health. Joy Gross and her husband, Dr. Robert Gross, co-founded the legendary Pawling Health Manor in upstate New York. Over the course of three decades she demonstrated the effectiveness of the principles she believed in by applying them to more than 60,000 clients. Celebrities from Hollywood to Broadway paid tens of thousands of dollars for the health secrets provided at the Manor. But all of these secrets-and more-are revealed completely in this succinct and powerful book. Delicious recipes show you practical ways to nourish your body and maintain an alkaline inner environment. Joy shows you how to make beautiful nutritious salads, innovative raw and steamed vegetables, and magic green chlorophyll-rich juice and smoothies. You'll put together luscious fruit plates and even yummy desserts. Plant-based meals have never tasted so good! Joy's book truly delivers on the promise of its title. If you make the changes she advocates, you will become younger and live younger ... and enjoy a happier, healthier, and more vibrant life. Joy Gross is a health expert and author who has been a pioneer in the field since the 1950s.She has been committed to a "green" diet and lifestyle for 70 years, since she conquered a serious childhood disease through a radical change in eating habits. As director, lecturer, and all around hands-on person at the Manor for over 30 years, her own knowledge and expertise became well honed. She is the author of three previous books: "The 30-Day Way to a Born-Again Body," "Thin Again!," and "The Vegetarian Child." A mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Joy lives an active life in Rhinebeck, New York, where she paints, gardens, and jumps out of planes. "Joy always tells me she's proud to have me as her son-in-law. I'm proud to have her as my mother-in-law. My patients from upstate always know who she is!" - Hector Rodriguez, M.D., Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center "Joy Gross is a living testament to the power of eating healthfully. Read, learn, enjoy."- Laura Pensiero, owner of Gigi Hudson Valley, registered dietitian, and author of "Hudson Valley Mediterranean"
The bestselling and most complete guide to the gorgeous Hudson Valley is back in a new, totally revised edition. Rich with historical and cultural attractions and natural beauty, the Hudson Valley has become a choice getaway. Local author Joanne Michaels guides you through its treasure trove of restaurants, cozy inns, galleries, antiques shops, and wineries, and to its many outdoor activities. Completely revised; from the most respected travel writer in the region.
