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AlwaysFresh: A Day at Stone Barns

Tomorrow at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture is their Sixth Annual Harvest Fest, a community celebration of the farm at its most fruitful. As our Calendar notes, family-friendly festivities will include live music, a farm market, hayrides and games from 10:00am to 3:00pm. Here is a beautiful piece about a day spent at Stone Barns by Michelle Kiefer, an AlwaysHungryNY.com contributor.

 

Top, Stone Barns Farm. Bottom left, Raspberry Coffee Cake. Right, Blue Hill Café.

As fantastic as a meal is at Blue Hill at Stone Barns (restaurant page) it’s not something everyone can afford. But as a recent visit demonstrated, you don’t have to splurge to have a great time eating and experiencing Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture (view site). And it’s closer than you think, just a forty-five minute drive or a thirty-five minute ride from Grand Central to Tarrytown on the Hudson Line’s express train followed by a 10-minute, $12 cab ride to the farm.

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AlwaysPartying: Sake Sangria Recipe

In honor of New York Sake Week, I am going to share my highly coveted Sake Sangria recipe with you. Both perfectly timed for the festivities and the summer, it’s time to make sure that you have a container big enough to hold it.

I had been trying to perfect this recipe for quite some time and it only finally came together with the addition of Crop Organic Cucumber Flavored Vodka.

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