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Berkshire Tidbits: Maple Syrup, Early St. Paddy's Day
By Judith Lerner, Special to iBerkshires
09:43PM / Friday, March 11, 2016
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Chef Frank LaRagione, in the kitchen at First Baptist Church of Pittsfield, will serve his annual St. Patrick's Dinner on Saturday evening. Photo by Judith Lerner.

On Sunday, March 13, from 3 to 5 p. m., chef Julie Gale, owner of At the Table Cooking School in Hillsdale, N. Y., will interpret the classic brunch as part of the Cooking at The Chef's Shop series, 31 Railroad St. in Great Barrington, 413-528-0135. She will be making homemade gravlax, eggs Benedict and bread pudding with whiskey sauce.

The cost is class is $60 per person for a single class, $150 for a series of three. Payment is required in advance with a 48 hour cancellation policy. The Chef's Shop offers students a 10-percent discount on purchases made on a class day. Call or Email@TheChefsShop.com, to reserve a place.

 

Chef Frank LaRagione will serve his annual early St. Patrick's Day corned beef and cabbage dinner at First Baptist Church, 88 South St. in Pittsfield, on Saturday evening, March 12, from 4 to 6. LaRagione makes his own Irish soda bread and he and his wife, Lynn, make homemade dessert. Call them at 413-442-8592 for reservations. You can order LaRagione's bread to take home, as well.

 

The latest on Jae Chung's new Thai and Vietnamese restaurant, Vong's, in Pittsfield, is that it will open the week of March 14. Chung said he is waiting for a few things and moving the furniture in.

 

On Saturday afternoon, March 12, at 2, Berkshire Co-op Market in Great Barrington, will mark the start of its 2016 Farm Tour season with the annual visit to Mead's Maple Syrup in Canaan, Conn. It's a pretty impressive combination of super up-to-date syrup evaporator fed with wood by hand and real farmers, Jude and Winter Mead, hosting guests to watch their operation. Then, the co-op makes pancakes — including gluten-free options — right there in the sugarhouse, and the guests eat them with the fresh syrup. All very 21st century rural Berkshires.

Call the co-op, 413-528-9697, Ext.10, for more information or to sign up for this free event; find directions here.

 

You can expect to see familiar farmers and local artisanal food producers at Downtown Pittsfield Winter Farmers Market at Lighthouse Café in the basement of the Boys & Girls Club, 16 Melville St., this Saturday, March 12, between 9 and 1.

Assembly Coffee Roasters, Balderdash Cellars, Caroline's Scottish Shortbread, Country Seasonings, Cricket Creek Farm, Dandelion Hill Farm, Elmartin Farm, Matt's Cookie Bars, Mountain Girl Farm, North Yeast Bakery, Square Roots Farm, Trusted Roots Farm, White Goose Gardens and Windy Ridge Farm will be there.

Artisans Green Meads Farm Herbals, Jake Czaja, Milltown Beadworks, MVB Printmaker, Things That Work and West End Boutique will be selling their wares.

There will, again, be a youth booth where Pittsfield High School students from its Farm and Garden program will have seasonal handmade treats; Kate Wiles, 18, will show her nature and Berkshire photography; 11-year-old Ava Garlington and 12-year-old Aurora Benson will have chocolate-covered Assembly Coffee Roasters coffee beans, dog biscuits and cutting boards; and 6-year-old Sasha Lawton will have scarves and felted necklaces.

Singer-songwriter-guitarist Jordan Franklin will be performing from 11 to 1.

The easiest way to find the market is to enter through the big blue doors at the back of the building from the parking lot closest to the former Notre Dame Church.

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