The largest single taxpayer in the Catskills is New York City. To protect its drinking water — 90 percent of which comes from Catskills watersheds — the city spent nearly three decades accumulating 156,350 acres of forest and fields. It’s an area larger than all the land in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Manhattan combined….
Blaufränkisch This is a wonderful grape capable of making wines that range from simply delicious to profound and contemplative. The key from the production standpoint is to treat the grapes gently — the best don’t try to make a powerful, tannic wine or load it up with oak. At its finest it’s graceful yet intense,…
One hour after announcing they would buy Versace, Prada CEO Andrea Guerra and family scion Lorenzo Bertelli warned analysts not to expect a miracle overnight, even as they expressed excitement about the acquisition. Andrea Guerra, Prada CEO, at the helm of the Versace acquisition. – Courtesy of Prada “We are very excited to be working…
The first day of spring arrives in two weeks, and I’ve already begun my seasonal tradition of paring down my stuff: I’ve tackled small organizing projects, which experts call “soft decluttering.” (I purged the murky area under my bathroom sink.) And I’ve given away sentimental clutter like a hand-me-down china set I haven’t used for…