Anyela’s Vineyard takes part in movement to promote dry rosé
Anyela’s Vineyards in Skaneateles, is one of 16 wineries who have joined forces this spring to promote New York-made dry rosé.
New Fayetteville bake shop takes the cake
From cruise ships to giraffes to the Carrier Dome, Syracuse Cake Art can make almost anything into a cake. Kathy Felser began experimenting with baking 3D and wedding cakes in her own home five years ago. She says that even though she struggled at the beginning and had cakes falling apart left and right, she knew right away that baking and decorating cakes is what she’s meant to do.
Clay’s Project Green to kick off new season
The town of Clay is preparing for its second season of Project Green, its 60-plot community garden located off Black Creek Road. Plot reservations are due to the town by March 28.
NSCSD Food Service Department asking for student input
The North Syracuse Central School District Food Service Department is conducting a survey of North Syracuse Junior High School and Cicero-North Syracuse High School students to gather information about their breakfast habits. The online survey (nscsd.org/breakfast2) will be active through March 31. Students attending North Syracuse Junior High School and Cicero-North Syracuse High School are asked to participate in the survey before March 31.
Mayor’s turkey dinner raises $4600 for Fayetteville senior center
It may be eight months to Thanksgiving, but nearly 140 people gathered at the Fayetteville senior center on Sunday, March 3 for a traditional Thanksgiving meal. Volunteers served turkey, stuffing, potatoes, cranberry sauce and apple pie to hungry guests for the benefit of the senior center. This year, the event raised nearly $4600.
COLUMN: From Grandma’s Kitchen - A perfect time to make pizza
February is the perfect month to celebrate Valentine’s Day. It’s in the middle of winter, we’ve had enough of slush and boots, and life gets a little boring staying inside when it’s bad out.
Dewitt Rotary Club gears up for ‘Pancake Day’
The fundraiser is expected to raise over $35,000 for local charities
The griddles won’t be heating up till May, but the Dewitt Rotary Club has already started collecting money for its biggest fundraiser of the year- Pancake Day. The event is essentially an all-you-can-eat pancake extravaganza in which volunteers make thousands of pancakes, complete with almost any kind of topping you could imagine. This is the rotary club’s 59th year hosting Pancake Day and they’re expecting over 5000 people in 2013.
County shuts down wild game dinner
The annual Wild Game Dinner at the Open Door Baptist Church in New Woodstock started off this past Saturday, Feb. 9, the way it has for the past 27 years: more than 200 people showed up bearing numerous homemade dishes made from wild game and the ladies of the church baked some 50 pies for dessert. The difference this year — about 15 minutes into the event an official from the Madison County Department of Health showed up and said serving such homemade dishes without a permit violated the county health code, and all the food had to be taken out of the building and put back in everyone’s vehicles in order to avoid prosecution for a public health hazard.
Latté Da! Café & Bakehouse open on Lincklaen Street
One day last summer, Barb Wright and Kay Crawford were on a leisure drive through Madison County, and they noticed that a storefront on Linklaen Street was up for sale. It was Angel’s Deli. Admirers of the village’s architecture and all-around charm, they decided to check it out.On Dec. 14, 2012, Wright and Crawford opened Latté Da! Café & Bakehouse in the village of Cazenovia. “And here we are, totally by accident,” Wright said.
28th Annual Wild Game Banquet to be held Feb. 9
Open Door Baptist Church, Route 13 and Delphi Road, New Woodstock, is once again hosting its annual banquet starting at 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, with seminars and displays.
Lincklaen House packed for ‘Fabulous Beekman Boys’
Nearly 200 people from towns and villages across Central New York descended on Cazenovia this past Saturday, Jan. 26, to meet, have books signed by and taste the recipes of Josh Kilmer-Purcell and his partner Brent Ridge, popularly known as “The Fabulous Beekman Boys” — authors, entrepreneurs, stars of a reality cooking show and winners of the latest season of television’s “The Amazing Race.”
Authors, farmers, entrepreneurs ‘The Fabulous Beekman Boys’ eager to visit Cazenovia
There has been a slow, steady and excited buzz permeating Cazenovia in recent weeks that can all be boiled down to the fact that the nationally-known “Fabulous Beekman Boys” — bestselling authors, farmers, entrepreneurs and recent winners of television’s “The Amazing Race” — are coming to town on Saturday, Jan. 26. The two-hour event, sponsored by the Historic Cazenovia Business District committee of the chamber of commerce, will feature Josh Kilmer-Purcell and his partner Brent Ridge giving a special book signing of their “Beekman 1802 Heirloom Cookbook” and Kilmer-Purcell’s New York Times best-selling nonfiction book, “The Bucolic Plague: How two Manhattanites became gentleman farmers: An unconventional memoir,” from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, at the Lincklaen House on Albany Street.
Pizza Man of Liverpool celebrates grand opening
Pizza Man was established more than 29 years ago in June of 1983 in Baldwinsville. Since the beginning owner Jim Delia has been dedicated to serving a high quality product using fresh ingredients, making their dough and sauce on the premises daily. Their pizza and wings have won numerous awards at the annual Taste of Baldwinsville competition.
B.G. Buda’s: Cazenovia’s newest restaurant showing strong business
Things are looking up for Cazenovia’s newest restaurant, B.G. Buda’s Cucina Italiana and its owner Bob Enigk. Enigk reports that business has been very good since the restaurant quietly opened in May. In fact, he said, “most weekends you would need a reservation.”
Olive on Brooklea presents olive oil in a whole new way
Michelle Watts puts a twist on traditional cuisine
You may use olive oil as your salad dressing, or to cook with, or to dip your bread in. Michelle Watts, the owner of Olive on Brooklea, is pushing the envelope with her discovery of olive oil topping over ice cream- something she has lined up waiting to be sampled at her store.
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