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We all have one: The dish you barely need to look at the menu before ordering, the one you recommend when someone asks w...
09/12/2026

We all have one: The dish you barely need to look at the menu before ordering, the one you recommend when someone asks where they should eat, the one you still think about years after the restaurant that served it has closed.

Pops Peterson has a few.

There’s the calf’s liver at The Mill in South Egremont, a dish that takes him back to the liver his father cooked when he was a kid; The half roasted duck at Sibarita’s; An enormous grilled pork chop at The Barn Kitchen & Bar; Fish and chips at The White Hart Inn; The Roberto pizza at Robbie’s Community Market, where spicy soppressata meets a drizzle of honey.

And for dessert? A Basque cheesecake at The Cliff House that Pops dares you to find a better version of anywhere on the planet.

Some are old favorites. Some are newer discoveries. And a few exist now only in memory, which might be the greatest testament to a really good meal.

🍽️ Read Pops Peterson’s “Great Tastes I Have Known” at the link in bio.

✍️ Pops Peterson
📍 Sibaritas Restaurant The Barn Kitchen & Bar Fern Lakeville, CT The White Hart Inn Robbie’s Cliff House Berkshires

Consider this your list of five things to investigate immediately:✨ A new chapter at The Cliff House in Egremont✨ A desi...
09/11/2026

Consider this your list of five things to investigate immediately:

✨ A new chapter at The Cliff House in Egremont
✨ A design wonderland at Walker Street Market in Lenox
✨ 320+ bins of candy at Sugar Magnolia in Lenox
✨ Onigiri from Ayakito’s Japanese Kitchen in Great Barrington
✨ Fresh pasta at Zio Roberto in North Adams

Which one are you checking out first? 👀

Find all five in FIRST LOOK in our High Summer issue, at the link in bio.

Labor Day may have come and gone, but we’re not ready to call it yet. We’ve still got towels to spread on warm rocks, sa...
09/10/2026

Labor Day may have come and gone, but we’re not ready to call it yet. We’ve still got towels to spread on warm rocks, sandwiches to be eat straight from the cooler, docks to jump from, and afternoons at the lake that slowly fade into crisp, cool evenings.

September has a way of reminding us to pay attention to all those little pieces of summer we thought we had plenty of time for back in June.

So here’s to squeezing every last drop out of this beautiful Berkshire summer. The sweaters can wait.

📍 Benedict Pond, Monterey
📸 Michael Bolognino

“Oh yeah, oh yeah dandelion, think you’re so pretty?”“What you got, spurge?”“Get off my lawn, goutw**d.”Betsy Korona tal...
09/08/2026

“Oh yeah, oh yeah dandelion, think you’re so pretty?”

“What you got, spurge?”

“Get off my lawn, goutw**d.”

Betsy Korona talks smack to her w**ds. She also fights them, obsesses over them, gets hit in the forehead by them, develops rashes from them, and finds herself unable to walk past one without dropping everything to pull it.

It’s a relatively new obsession; After an adult life spent in places with “more pavement than peonies,” Betsy didn’t properly discover w**ding until she was pushing 40.

Somewhere along the way, though, the maddening work became more about getting her hands in the dirt, headphones on, and escaping from the noise of life.

And during a moment when the path forward isn’t entirely clear, there’s something comforting about a problem as simple as this: the w**d vs. me.

🌱 Read Betsy Korona’s “Into the Weeds” at the link in bio.

✍️ Elizabeth Korona

It started with 220 acres and a question: What could they grow here?For Matt Greitzer and Kimberly Driessen Greitzer, th...
09/06/2026

It started with 220 acres and a question: What could they grow here?

For Matt Greitzer and Kimberly Driessen Greitzer, the answer was grain. Rye, to be exact.

The college sweethearts bought a former sheep farm in Chatham in 2020 with the hope of building something rooted in the place Matt grew up. Years later, that farm is Silver Brothers Distillery, where fields of grain make their way into Empire Rye and American Single Malt Whiskey, and an old agricultural property has found an entirely new life.

The details inside are just as considered. The tasting room has a Shaker-toned, hunting-lodge feel. Bow Glassworks created amethyst tumblers. Artist Millie von Platen illustrated the farm for the lining of the bottle boxes. And then there are Smokey and Gilly, the smoke-colored brothers serving as resident distillery cats. (No, Silver Brothers isn’t named after them.)

It’s a whiskey story, certainly. But it’s also one about land, design, and what it means to make something that feels unmistakably of a place.

🥃 Step inside Silver Brothers Distillery in “Cask Rabbits,” at the link in bio.

✍️ Lauren Mechling
📸 John R Gruen

Listen, we all had to start somewhere 🤷‍♀️
09/05/2026

Listen, we all had to start somewhere 🤷‍♀️

Coming to Chesterwood Labor Day Weekend—Grammy-nominated Manolo Mairena brings the rhythms of salsa to the Berkshires!Su...
09/04/2026

Coming to Chesterwood Labor Day Weekend—
Grammy-nominated Manolo Mairena brings the rhythms of salsa to the Berkshires!

Sunday, September 6 | 3 pm
SALSA PARTY Chesterwood
Salsa y Control Dancers kick things off with a salsa lesson, followed by Manolo Mairena and his Salsa Band live at 3:30 pm.

Bring your dancing shoes—or simply sit back and enjoy the music from a blanket or lawn chair. Pack a picnic if you’d like.
Fun for the whole family — 18 & under free!
Reserve your tickets now!

“If you’re reading this on a Thursday,” writes Alana Chernila, “then it’s safe to say I am in a good mood. Also known as...
09/03/2026

“If you’re reading this on a Thursday,” writes Alana Chernila, “then it’s safe to say I am in a good mood. Also known as bread day in my household, Thursday has become my favorite day of the week.

Before most of us are awake, Sarah Reynolds North is already at work in the tiny, pale-pink bakery beside her Mill River home, baking sourdough for the 80 or so members of Found Bread’s bread club.

Maybe this week it’s the Pepperell, rich with Gruyère and black pepper. Maybe the golden raisin-and-cinnamon Sultana. Maybe a seed-packed Sedgewick. Whatever is tucked into that hand-stamped paper bag, there’s a good chance it will still be warm at pickup (and an even better chance half the loaf will be gone before bedtime).

Found Bread works a little like a CSA: members sign up in advance, allowing Sarah to buy what she needs, bake exactly what she needs, and source her ingredients as close to home as possible.

But the bread is only part of what keeps people coming back.

“People like to feel like they’re part of something. And the opportunity to make something delicious that brings people around a table, that builds community, is so satisfying to me.”

Meet Sarah and the bread club that has turned Thursdays into something worth looking forward to in “Toast of the Berkshires,” at the link in bio.

🍞 FOUND BREAD
✍️ Alana Chernila
📸 Eric Korenman

Kick off your Labor Day weekend with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit with special guest Patty Griffin Friday night at Tang...
09/01/2026

Kick off your Labor Day weekend with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit with special guest Patty Griffin Friday night at Tanglewood. Experience the powerful lyrics, heartfelt storytelling, and unmistakable sound that have made six-time Grammy Award winner Jason Isbell one of the most celebrated songwriters of his generation.

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit with special guest Patty Griffin
📅 Friday, September 4, 7PM
📍 Tanglewood Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA
🎟️ Get Tickets Now: Tanglewood.org

There are certain things that feel quintessentially Berkshire summer: Long evenings spent on patios, open windows throug...
09/01/2026

There are certain things that feel quintessentially Berkshire summer: Long evenings spent on patios, open windows throughout the house, dinner outside. And, for a few fleeting weeks, fields that begin to glow as daylight disappears.

Fireflies—actually a family of beetles—spend summer nights flickering through our meadows and forests in fiery orange, yellow, and lemon-lime green. Their light show is part spectacle, part courtship, and almost impossible to capture the way it feels in person.

“Fireflies are one of the few phenomena you can’t photograph or video. You have to be there to see it,” one scientist told a group gathered at Hancock Shaker Village earlier this summer.

Now, as August gives way to September and the evenings grow cooler and darker a little earlier, the show is over for another year. But maybe that’s part of the magic. Some of the best things about summer are only ours for a little while.

✨ In “Sparks Fly,” Soren Anderson-Flynn looks at the tiny beetles behind one of the Berkshires’ most enchanting seasonal rituals. Read it now at the link in bio.

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