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Catskill Mountain Region MARCH 2021 COMPLIMENTARY GUIDE catskillregionguide.com Catskills Dining Including Recipes from Some of Your Favorite Chefs! March 2021 • GUIDE 1 2 • www.catskillregionguide.com March 2021 • GUIDE 3 Catskill Mountain Foundation’s Piano Performance Museum presents ACADEMY OF FORTEPIANO PERFORMANCE INTERNATIONAL ORTEPIANO Connecting fortepiano lovers from Salon Series all around the world via Zoom SALON #3: With Special Guest Host Pierre Goy Saturday, March 27, 2021 @ 2 pm EST (11 am PST, 8 pm Europe) Monthly informal online performances and discussions with fortepi ano students and professionals anywhere, hosted by AFP faculty and guest artists around the world. Interested in performing or presenting your own piano? Please apply to [email protected] with a brief bio and description of the music and piano to be presented. FREE! REGISTER AT www.catskillmtn.org MORE INFORMATION: www.catskillmtn.org This event is made possible in part through the support of the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, www.academyfortepiano.org Greene4 County • www.catskillregionguide.com Council on the Arts, d/b/a/ CREATE, and Stewarts Shops. ISSUE IN THIS www.catskillregionguide.com VOLUME 36, NUMBER 3 March 2021 PUBLISHERS Peter Finn, Chairman, Catskill Mountain Foundation Sarah Finn, President, Catskill Mountain Foundation EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION Sarah Taft ADVERTISING SALES Barbara Cobb Steve Friedman On the cover: CONTRIBUTING WRITERS & ARTISTS Sesame Crusted Tofu, Kim Bach, Jeff Senterman, Sarah Taft, by Chef Radha Tabak Margaret Donsbach Tomlinson & Robert Tomlinson ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE 6 BOOK RELEASE: Candy McKee Twenty-One Trees, by the Mountain Top Arboretum Justin McGowan & Hillary Morse AN APPRECIATION OF BLACK WOMEN POETS PRINTING 8 Catskill Mountain Printing Services By Robert Tomlinson DISTRIBUTION SPECIAL SECTION: CATSKILLS DINING Catskill Mountain Foundation 12 CHEF PROFILES EDITORIAL DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE: March 10 18 Lauren Stein, Enchanted Cakes The Catskill Mountain Region Guide is published 12 times a year by the Catskill Mountain Foundation, Inc., Main Street, PO Box 27 Chef Jeff, Ohana Café 924, Hunter, NY 12442. If you have events or programs that you would like to have covered, please send them by e-mail to tafts@ Christie Flanagan, Jägerberg Beer Hall & Alpine Tavern catskillmtn.org. Please be sure to furnish a contact name and in- 28 clude your address, telephone, fax, and e-mail information on all correspondence. For editorial and photo submission guidelines AMY JACKSON OF AMY’S TAKE-AWAY: send a request via e-mail to [email protected]. 31 The liability of the publisher for any error for which it may be Bringing A Community Together through Culinary Diversity held legally responsible will not exceed the cost of space ordered or occupied by the error. The publisher assumes no liability for By Sarah Taft errors in key numbers. The publisher will not, in any event, be liable for loss of income or profits or any consequent damages. The Catskill Mountain Region Guide office is located in 34 A GREENE COUNTY GARDEN IN MARCH Hunter Village Square in the Village of Hunter on Route 23A. By Margaret Donsbach Tomlinson The magazine can be found on-line at www.catskillmtn.org by clicking on the “Guide Magazine” button, or by going directly to www.catskillregionguide.com 7,000 copies of the Catskill Mountain Region Guide are 36 THE CATSKILLS ARE OPEN FOR BUSINESS! distributed each month. It is distributed free of charge at the Plattekill, Sloatsburg and New Baltimore rest stops on the New York State Thruway, and at the tourist information offices, 45 CATSKILL MOUNTAIN REGION GUIDE restaurants, lodgings, retailers and other businesses throughout ARTIST PORTFOLIO: Kim Bach Greene, Delaware and Ulster counties. Home delivery of the Guide magazine is available, at an additional fee, to annual members of the Catskill Mountain THE GREAT OUTDOORS IN THE CATSKILLS Foundation at the $100 membership level or higher. 51 ©2000 Catskill Mountain Foundation, Inc. By Jeff Senterman All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part without written permission is prohibited. The Catskill Mountain Region Guide is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts. All photo- 56 CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION graphic rights reside with the photographer. 2021 PERFORMING ARTS SEASON SNEAK PEEK 57 2021 COURSES AT SUGAR MAPLES CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS THE CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION DONATE TO THE CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION 7971 MAIN STREET, P.O. BOX 924 58 HUNTER, NY 12442 PHONE: 518 263 2000 • FAX: 518 263 2025 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS WWW.CATSKILLMTN.ORG 60 March 2021 • GUIDE 5 BOOK RELEASE TWENTY-ONE TREES is published by the Mountain Top Arboretum Mountain Top Arboretum in Tannersville has published Twenty-One Trees, a beautiful book that connects the twenty-one trees species used in the Arboretum’s Education Center to their appearance in the Arboretum forest. Through the exquisite photography of Rob Cardillo, each tree— its bark, leaves, flowers and fruit—is visually explored as it changes through the seasons. The book was designed by Neil Binkley and edited by Hannah Fries. The book includes a foreword by Rick Darke and chapters on the Arboretum’s geology by Robert and Johanna Titus, Forest History by Michael Kudish, the Twenty-One Trees by Larry McCaffrey, the Timber Frame Education Center by architect Jack Sobon, and the Education Center Landscape Design by landscape architect Jamie Purinton. Twenty-One Trees is available at the Deer Mountain Inn, 790 Co Rd 25, Tannersville, NY and at Sundry, 6036 Main St, Tannersville, NY. You may also order a copy by mail: please mail a check for $30, plus $5 shipping/handling ($35.00 total) to: Mountain Top Arboretum, PO Box 379, Tannersville NY 12485 Proceeds from your purchase go directly toward: increasing year- round programming to inspire and educate visitors about the science of horticulture and land stewardship; furthering outreach and environmen- tal education aimed at engaging local youth; and planting, care and showcasing of beautiful native trees, shrubs, grasses and flowers. 6 • www.catskillregionguide.com CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH THE ARTS THANK YOU TO OUR FUNDERS & SUPPORTERS! F O U N A M D H A D T I N O I N W Education, Recreation, Arts, and Community Initiatives Catskill Mountain Foundation is supported in part by New York State Council on the Arts, The Greene County Legislature through the Cultural Fund administered by CREATE Council for Resources to Enrich the Arts, Technology & Education (formerly The Greene County Council on the Arts), The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, The Royce Family Foundation, The Samuel and Esther Doctorow Fund, The Orville and Ethel Slutzky Family Foundation, Platte Clove Bruder- hof Community, Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation, The Greene County Youth Bureau, Marshall & Sterling Insurance, All Souls’ Church, Stewarts Shops, Windham Foundation, and by private donations. 7971 Main Street, Village of Hunter 518 263 2001 • www.catskillmtn.org March 2021 • GUIDE 7 Clockwise from left: t’ai freedom ford, photo by Dominique Sindayiganza; Morgan Parker, photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths; Angel Nafis, photo by Justin J. Wee An Appreciation of Black Women Poets By Robert Tomlinson think people reflect differently at different times. Since I It seems she has single-handedly reignited a national conversation I like the visual arts so much, I often question, How did we on poetry, which, I believe, can be attributed to not only the get here? Whether you think Modern Art began with Millet, content of her poem but also the cadence and beauty with which Van Gogh or Manet, it’s fascinating to follow what happened in it was delivered. the 20th century: although many folks would agree that Pablo But, how did we get here? We can’t justify a discussion on Picasso is still the overarching influence, we definitely live more in contemporary poetry without first acknowledging the encom- Duchamp’s world than Picasso’s. passing influence of the French poet, Charles Baudelaire, along I believe that the growth in any art form, though document- with Rimbaud and Mallarmé who followed in his footsteps. In ed usually by the work of dynamic individuals, is cumulative and America, from the same period, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whit- a result of the collective efforts of many. man became pillars of American verse. I would also add Gertrude There isn’t any celebration of the visual arts via a Visual Arts Stein, the American writer who lived most of her adult life in History Month, but we are fortunate that during Jimmy Carter’s Paris, to this list of distinguished writers who distinctly showed administration, March was declared, Women’s History Month! us new ways of what a poem could be: from what was written That February is Black History Month, means it’s a great oppor- about, how the words were placed on the page and how language tunity to combine the two and pause to focus on Black Women can challenge the way in which we think about ourselves and the Poets as part of this enriching period of study and reflection. world we occupy. It’s also timely to do this now, in concert with the buzz cre- I think the best art is a reflection of a conversation one has ated by Ms. Amanda Gorman’s poem, The Hill We Climb, writ- with oneself, but it’s also appropriate to examine the context ten and performed for the Biden/ Harris inaugural on January 20. of what was happening during the period a specific piece was 8 • www.catskillregionguide.com C Kaaterskill M Shoppe F Gifts Books Toys Art Visit Our NEW Book Nook! YOUR SAFETY IS OUR TOP PRIORITY! • Wearing a mask is required—we have extra if you need one. • Hand sanitizer and gloves available for your comfort and safety.