ISSUE 22: DECEMBER 03-FEBRUARY 04

Cover:

Still life with fruit (William Meritt Chase)

Contents:

Food Co-ops: An idea whose time has come (again). by Abby Luby

Locally grown: Inner sanctum: An office with a view. by Keith Stewart

Traditions: Holiday cookie bake. by Kathy Baruffi

Deja vu: The secret cook of Wilderstein. by Peter Rose

The Valley Table: Five years.

Technique: Making sauce: demi-glace and reduction. Cesare Avallone of Mojo Grill

Kitchen garden: Grow your own, part 1. by Leslie Coons

The social scene. by Judith Hausman

Good stuff: Slow Food dinner; Holiday dinner at Xaviar's; Cookies; Seminar; Market-on-Hudson.

Reader survey.

Marketplace

Recipes:

Jenny's acorn cookies (Peter Rose)

Mother's date bars (Peter Rose)

Black-and-white cookie (Peter Rose)

Chicken-almond sandwiches (Peter Rose)

Roquefort dressing (Peter Rose)

Cossack steaks (Peter Rose)

Tempranillo demi-glace (Cesare Avallone / Mojo Grill)

Applewood-smoked bacon-wrapped sea scallops in fennel/cream reduction (Cesare Avallone / Mojo Grill)

Marinara sauce (Casa Italiana)

Gravlax (Elsa Midtbo)

Stuffed cabbage (Sophie Fortuniewicz)