Bait and Switch: Trout Parade 2007

June 16, 2007 at 4:31 pm · Filed under Catskills

A band playing instruments plucked from the garbage, a devotional Kurt Vonnegut float and a lone middle-aged baton twirler were just a few features of Livingston Manor’s (pop. 1500) Annual Trout Parade. Positioned near the Willowemoc Creek, with its beaver dams, bogs and meadows, the area offers some of the finest brook trout fishing in the Catskills. It only makes sense that they host the Annual Trout Parade. I attended the Fourth Annual Trout Parade not out of love for fishing, but to both enjoy the optimism and oldfangled charms of a small-town American parade, and eat some delicious local trout in as many preparations as possible. En route to the parade, I pondered the limitless possibilities of trout.

“Maybe there will be trout jerky, trout hot dogs, trout tiradito or trout pie,” I thought to myself.

If not at the Trout Parade, then where?

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Grom: Let the Gelateria Ground Swell Begin

June 13, 2007 at 7:04 pm · Filed under Manhattan

Like tourists on the Grande Traversata delle Alpi, New Yorkers have been making the journey to the Upper West Side to sample the rich, dense gelati at Grom, a newly opened micro-chain founded by Guido Martinetti and Federico Grom, two natives of Torino, Italy. Principled and high-quality, Grom offers authentic gelati with Slow Food cred. Their fresh, seasonal and organic ingredients, combined with a storefront that feels very Italian in design, adds to the pleasantly sophisticated experience at Grom. Read the rest of this entry �

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