Tag: Meet
Meet Small Bites Blog Contributor Christina Halpin: a HVRW Blogger Back for More
Hi all! It’s Christina Halpin of HVRW fame back again to chat and chew. After my brush with blogging for Restaurant Week, I found myself hungry for more Small Bites. Once you have all forgiven me for my shameless use of food puns, please do read on about what I’ll be talking about in my [...]
Foodies 101: Meet Aimee & Kevin Ellis, HVRW Guest Bloggers turned Small Bites Contributors!
foodie, foody[?fu?d?] n pl -ies A person having an enthusiastic interest in the preparation and consumption of good food. Hello & welcome to a new Small Bites column: Foodies 101, where we explore our budding interest in all things cooking, dining and eating, and share what we learn with you. Maybe you remember us, we’re [...]
Meet Our New Wine Expert: Jeffrey Wooddy of Rochambeau Wines & Liquors in Dobbs Ferry
If you’ve ever walked the worn wooden floors of Rochambeau Wines & Liquors in Dobbs Ferry, you’ve met Jeffrey Wooddy. He’s the 6-foot-5 manager behind the counter who can find a perfect wine to pair with your dinner in five seconds flat, no matter whether you’re serving roast suckling pig or pigs in a blanket. [...]
I Eat Plants: Meet New Blogger Jodie Deignan
My name is Jodie Deignan, and I’m excited to be taking over the I Eat Plants column from my fellow blogger, JL Fields. I moved to the Lower Hudson Valley area in 2010, but it took until a conference in Portland, OR for me to meet JL last year! But I’m glad that I did, [...]
Meet Guest Blogger: Theresa Narvesen, Hudson Valley Restaurant Week Fall 2012
Hello! I’m Theresa Narvesen, and I am so excited to be a guest blogger during Hudson Valley Restaurant Week. What an amazing opportunity! I grew up in New York, and I have been living in Dutchess County for about 3 years. I teach English at a local middle school, and I am also a fitness [...]
Meet Guest Blogger: Christina Halpin, Hudson Valley Restaurant Week Fall 2012
Hey Hey! A pleasure to meet you all, I’m Christina Halpin and I couldn’t be more thrilled to participate in Hudson Valley Restaurant week. I am a lifelong lower Westchester resident (not counting the seven years I spent camping out in Northern New Jersey) and my participation is one part greediness to gobble up all [...]
Mixed Case: Meet Our New Experts — Derek and Carol Todd of Wine Geeks in Armonk
At Wine Geeks in Armonk, you have to have faith. Derek and Carol Todd carry wines from small producers — bottles that come from families who own their own vineyards, grow their own grapes and shepherd those grapes from the ground to the bottle. Tania Savayan/The Journal News “So it’s really a passion for people,” [...]
New Office Space for County Departments to Better Meet Needs and will Deliver Significant Cost Savings – County Executive Press Release 8/3/2012
Poughkeepsie… Dutchess County Executive Marcus J. Molinaro has announced the County has signed a lease agreement for 29,000 square feet of space in the Poughkeepsie Journal building located at 85 Civic Center Plaza in the City of Poughkeepsie. The Dutchess County Department of Health and the Division of Veterans Services will be relocated to the [...]
Rolison, Jeter-Jackson, Traudt Meet With Hudson Valley Young Professionals – County Legislature Press Release 7/18/2012
Dutchess County Legislature Chairman Robert Rolison (R, C, I -Poughkeepsie), Minority Leader Barbara Jeter-Jackson (D, I- Poughkeepsie) and Legislator Ben Traudt (R, C, I –Red Hook) met with members of the Hudson Valley Young Professionals (HVYP), a formal committee of the Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce. The meeting held in the Chambers of the [...]
Mixed Case: Meet our New Expert — Jung Kim of Piermont Fine Wine & Spirits
There are only a few hundred bottles available at Piermont Fine Wine & Spirits. But of those that are? Owner Jung Kim knows every single one like an old friend. “I only sell what I really like to drink,” he says. “So everything here has been tasted five or six times over the years; I [...]
