by Adirondack Life | Nov 22, 2022 | December 2022
Tired of the same old Thanksgiving side dishes? Mix it up with this staff favorite from food writer Patsy Jamieson, who created a farm-to-table feast for our November/December 2007 issue. Butternut Squash and Leek Gratin ½ cup panko breadcrumbs or fresh...
by Niki Kourofsky | Apr 13, 2022 | June 2022, Travel
Who says you need train tracks to have a train? Though Inlet’s nearest railroad—the Raquette Lake Railway, which ran a couple of miles to the north—shut down in the 1930s, the community still boasts its own caboose. The red Grand Trunk Western car has been a Route 28...
by James Howard Kunstler | Apr 12, 2022 | February 1990
To the Native American Algonquins and Iroquois, this rugged region was slim pickings and hence it came down through history that the tribes who sojourned here were the “barkeaters.” Usually it stops there, but it can now be told that they most likely...
by Paul Greenberg | Oct 28, 2020 | At Home in the Adirondacks 2020, Recreation
Writer Paul Greenberg warms up to solar cooking Photographs by Jamie West McGiver What is the absolute lowest-carbon way to cook a piece of food? I’d been trying to reach a definitive conclusion about this question for a book I was writing about lifestyle and climate...
by Annie Stoltie | Aug 13, 2020 | October 2020, Travel
A tasty collaboration between a Peru orchard and a Lake Placid brewery Photograph by Nancie Battaglia Bob Rulfs, a kid from downstate with hay fever, dreamed of becoming a farmer. When he was old enough, he took a train to the North Country, first digging in on a...
by Niki Kourofsky | Aug 29, 2018 | October 2018, Travel
photograph by Yvonnne Albinowski A local favorite in Saranac Lake If you sit down to dinner at Saranac Lake’s Fiddlehead Bistro with dyed-in-the-wool locals, you’ll learn a thing or two about this landmark perched on the bank of the Saranac River. Over plates...