Catskill Mountain Region JANUARY 2020 COMPLIMENTARY GUIDE catskillregionguide.com Winter in the Mountains On and Off the Slopes www.catskillregionguide.com VOLUME 35, NUMBER 1 January 2020 PUBLISHERS Peter Finn, Chairman, Catskill Mountain Foundation Sarah Finn, President, Catskill Mountain Foundation IN THIS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION Sarah Taft ISSUE On the cover: Celebrate winter in the Catskill Mountains! See the section starting on page 8. ADVERTISING SALES Photo by Rob Sharpe, courtesy of Hunter Mountain Barbara Cobb Steve Friedman CONTRIBUTING WRITERS 2 BOOK REVIEW: Compassionate Cuisine, A Cookbook from Joan Oldknow, Jeff Senterman, Sarah Taft Catskill Animal Sanctuary Review by Sarah Taft & Margaret Donsbach Tomlinson LITERARY ARTS: Catskill Mountain Foundation’s January ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE 3 Candy McKee Writer-in-Residence: Sofi Thanhauser Isabel Cunha, Justin McGowan & Emily Morse 4 ZVI Dance: MAIM (“Water” in Hebrew) at the Orpheum in PRINTING By Joan Oldknow Catskill Mountain Printing Services Tannersville this January DISTRIBUTION SPECIAL SECTION: WINTER IN THE MOUNTAINS Catskill Mountain Foundation 8 SKI NY: Updates for the 2019-2020 Season EDITORIAL DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE: January 10 include Discounts, Special Events & A New Website The Catskill Mountain Region Guide is published 12 times a year by the Catskill Mountain Foundation, Inc., Main Street, PO Box 10 WELCOME TO MINNEWASKA STATE PARK PRESERVE 924, Hunter, NY 12442. 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WINDHAM MOUNTAIN The magazine can be found on-line at www.catskillmtn.org 24 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 28 OFF THE SLOPES 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, 42 EAT DRINK 28: A Food & Wine Lover’s Dream restaurants, lodgings, retailers and other businesses throughout Greene, Delaware and Ulster counties. Located in the Heart of the Catskills Home delivery of the Guide magazine is available, at an additional fee, to annual members of the Catskill Mountain Foundation at the $100 membership level or higher. THE U.S. CHEFS SKI CLUB/CHEFS OF ALL NATIONS ©2000 Catskill Mountain Foundation, Inc. 43 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- 47 A GREENE COUNTY GARDEN IN JANUARY graphic rights reside with the photographer. By Margaret Donsbach Tomlinson 48 THE GREAT OUTDOORS IN THE CATSKILLS By Jeff Senterman 51 CATSKILL MOUNTAIN REGION GUIDE PHOTOGRAPHY THE CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION 7971 MAIN STREET, P.O. BOX 924 PORTFOLIO: Ski & Ride the Catskills HUNTER, NY 12442 PHONE: 518 263 2000 • FAX: 518 263 2025 WWW.CATSKILLMTN.ORG 59 JANUARY AT THE CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION January 2020 • GUIDE 1 BOOK REVIEW Compassionate Cuisine: 125 Plant-Based Recipes from Our Vegan Kitchen By Linda Soper-Kolton and Sara Boan Stories by Kathy Stevens Review by Sarah Taft As an avid home cook, a longtime vegetarian and a most-of-the- on ingredients, tools, and techniques in vegan cooking. The egg time vegan, I’m constantly on the search for plant-based recipes substitution chart is the easiest one I have come across yet, show- and cookbooks that are easy, tasty, satisfying, and good for you. ing you exactly what to use for eggs in any recipe, along with Compassionate Cuisine, recently published by the good folks at the adjustments that need to be made when using those substitutions. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, has rapidly become one of my favorite There’s also a helpful section on how to make small changes in sources for great recipes, and has made it into heavy rotation your diet if you haven’t yet made the transition to a plant-based in my household. Every recipe is absolutely delicious, from the lifestyle. Chipotle Sweet Potato Lentil Stew and the Skillet Shepherd’s Pie, The recipes are interspersed with really wonderful, sometimes both perfect for warming you up after a cold winter’s day; to the funny, sometimes moving stories from the Sanctuary. You’ll meet Stovetop Macaroni and Cheese, when you need a little ooey-goo- new friends, human and non-human alike, and learn that we’re ey comfort; to the Chocolate-Coconut Oatmeal Cookies (I’m a all pretty much the same … we all have distinct personalities that little embarrassed—but only a little—to say that the entire batch shine through when we feel safe and loved. was gone in two days, and there are only two of us in the house). Very few of us grew up as vegans, only coming into it later In fact, I was so confident in Compassionate Cuisine that in life. Our reasons for becoming vegan are as varied as there are my Thanksgiving meal was made entirely using recipes from the types of people in the world, but one thing is universal: we love book, starting with the Southern-Style Cheese Ball (because you food. We love cooking it, eating it, and thinking about it. One of always have to serve a cheese ball at Thanksgiving, right?), to the wonderful things about Compassionate Cuisine is that it does the Butternut Harvest Roll with Golden Gravy, to the Blistered not shame or judge you into becoming vegan—it simply provides Green Beans with Leeks and Shiitake Crisps, to the Sweet Potato you with the tools to make some really good food, to show you Cranberry Crisp with Coconut Whipped Cream. We were hoping that even small changes can make a difference, and that being for leftovers, but we went to bed that night with full bellies, warm vegan doesn’t mean a life of just boiled squash, steamed veggies, hearts, and a pretty empty refrigerator. and tofu. This is one of the most accessible vegan cookbooks I’ve And lest the idea of a vegan cookbook scare you, let me as- read—and I’ve read a lot. The recipes don’t use anything fancy, sure you: these recipes are good. Really, really good. They’ll satisfy and most include items that are probably already in your pan- vegans and non-vegans alike, and you may learn a little something try. No special equipment is required (although a high-powered in between delicious bites. blender and a food processor do help), and you don’t need a degree from the Culinary Institute of America to understand the directions. Chapter 1: “Getting Started” provides really helpful To order your copy of Compassionate Cuisine: 125 Plant-Based information for both the long-time vegan and the new vegan Recipes From Our Vegan Kitchen, go to casanctuary.org/cookbook. 2 • www.catskillregionguide.com LITERARY ARTS Catskill Mountain Foundation’s January Writer-in-Residence: Sofi Thanhauser The Catskill Mountain Foundation’s new Writers-In-Residence program is pleased to welcome January’s writer in residence, Sofi Thanhauser. Sofi was born in Dartmouth, NH and currently lives in Brooklyn. She works with text, drawings, books, found objects, video and other three-dimensional materials, often collaborating with other visual artists or writers. In addition to her own original content she will borrow, cite, or expand on other philosophical or artistic works, integrating them into a new context. She has been an artist-in residence at Jentel, Ucross and Bush Creek in Wyoming, the Millay Colony in NY, and the VCCA in Virginia. During her stay with us in Tannersville, she plans on working on a final edit of a new book, Worn, which is about clothing and deals with imperial, women’s labor and environmental histories. The Catskill Mountain Foundation’s Writers-In-Residence program invites a writer to come and live and work on Main Street in Tannersville. A residency can provide a rare and welcomed chance to leave behind all of one’s responsibilities in order to focus on one’s work for a specific (usually a month) period of time. The program is run by CMF Gallery Director, Robert Tomlinson, and will be, for the first 6 months, by invitation only. For more information about the residency, please contact Robert at [email protected]. January 2020 • GUIDE 3 All photos by Heidi Gutman photos by Heidi All MAIM (“Water” in Hebrew) at the Orpheum in Tannersville this January By Joan Oldknow ater, considered in Western Culture to be one of the four line surrounded by armed guards to collect drinking water. And W main elements essential to life, is diminishing in quantity in Mexico City, many of the 21 million residents will only have and quality due to the effects of global climate change. Like earth, running water part of the day … and these are only two examples air, and fire, water is a complex system of life-threatening and life- for a growing global trend of water shortage.