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Kingston bar celebrates golden age of tequila, mezcal "Mezcal + Tequila Cocktails" book signing this Sunday at Lis Bar FacebookTwitterEmail Kingston's Lis Bar's Martina mezcal cocktail is featured in New York Times cocktails and spirits writer Robert Simonson's latest recipe book. This weekend, Lis Bar will host a book signing with Simonson featuring cocktails made by a guest bartender and tacos made by chef Isais Lira, who began his culinary career in Mexico.Lis Bar It’s the golden age of agave, says New York Times cocktails and spirits writer Robert Simonson, and Lis Bar in Kingston is on board with its Martina mezcal drink.
At home upstate with Ruth Reichl At home upstate with Ruth Reichl The famous food writer shares her Hudson Valley life, including where she eats, what she's working on, and driving the Taconic Rose Palazzolo FacebookTwitterEmail Ruth Reichl, the former editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine, lives full time at her Spencertown home in Columbia County.Ruth Reichl In 2009, after Gourmet magazine was shuttered, Ruth Reichl moved full-time to Spencertown in Columbia County, to her sun-drenched home on a hill that she and her husband built in 2002. Reichl — the former food editor at The Los Angeles Times, restaurant critic of The New York Times, six-time James Beard winning author, best-selling memoirist and, for a decade, the editor of Gourmet magazine — decided it was time to make a big change.