Ithaca Beer Co. medals @ Great American

Regional favorite Ithaca Beer Company received two silver medals at the Great American Beer Festival.
The two beers receiving medals were the Cascazilla and the Excelsior Brute.  The Cascazilla is a personal fave and is highly recommended for those who enjoy hoppy ales and the 7% alcohol content makes for a toasty sixer.

Group to Push NY Wine

Wine Grape Task Force, activate!
Finger Lakes winery-heads will figure prominently in New York’s efforts to expand and strengthen the industry’s contributions to the state’s economy via the activities of the new Wine Grape Task Force:
Those from the Finger Lakes region include John Martini of Anthony Road Wine Co., Scott Osborn of Fox Run Vineyards, Jim [...]

Binghamton Voted Pierogy Capital

There is a stretch of the United States that begins in the Midwest and runs northeast up to New England that consumes the majority of all pierogies eaten in the country.
Known as the “Pierogy Pocket” there has been a search recently, on the part of Mrs. T’s foods, to find the capital of this area.  [...]

Spitz Gets Organic

NYS Governor Eliot Spitzer has been on his city-by-city Upstate Economic Development Tour and Tuesday’ stop in Rochester was momentous.  The Rochester portion has been well-covered and I would just like to highlight a couple of incentives of interest to HOH readers:
Cornell Agriculture and Food Technology Park Project (Ontario County): The Cornell Agriculture and Food Technology [...]

Next Iron Chef: Symon Cheering Section

The Food Network is horrible.  Any good the network has done with the introduction of personalities like Alton Brown has been undone twice over by also pushing on us the likes of Rachel Ray and Sandra “Today I’ll show you how to make cake from a box and then add food coloring” Lee.
While Bravo’s Top [...]