Joan's Pick this Week: Totseat - For babies who lunch
 These are perfect for when there is no highchair available. This award winning portable highchair is the
most versatile on the market, converting dining chairs of all shapes
and sizes into a highchair and it squashes into its own travel pouch (and is completely machine washable.) Great to keep in the car for summer on vacations or road trips...you never know if restaurants have high chairs!
Click here to read more...
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Thai Cooking Class - Another smashing success!
From greeting our students with fresh orange juice and mimosas, to
the tasting feast that followed, we now have another hit class on our
Hammertown Cooking School menu.
Everyone loved America's class. One member of our class was so excited and confident about what he had
learned in our class, that he went home and made the meal for a dinner
party that very evening! Read more...
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Our Hammertown Garden is almost ready for planting!
 The first seeds have been sown indoors and this week Danielle and Crystal "mended" the soil by turning it over and adding compost and other
organic matter in preparation for planting.
There was a lot of weeding and digging and raking involved. They were
also able to save and reposition a lot of perennial plants and herbs
around the garden itself. Click here to see what we've started...
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Welcome Artist, Louise Kalin, to our Rhinebeck Gallery
 Opening Reception at
Hammertown Rhinebeck Gallery
Saturday, April 17, 5-7pm
Show runs April 17 - June 1, 2010
Hammertown Rhinebeck Manager, Rhonda Cayea, knew Louise Kalin as a customer but had no idea what an
accomplished artist she was until a friend sent her to Rhonda with some of her
pieces. When she saw her work she loved it...(read more)
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Historic White Hart Inn in Salisbury gets a "local" makeover
 The "new" White Hart Inn looks beautiful and is definitely more
upscale. Yet owners, Scott and Roxanne Bok have made a real effort to remain true to the
White Hart's early roots--a simple inn and local tavern. They also insisted on using local businesses in the makeover... including Hammertown. The restaurant is serving locally produced food and providing "us locals" with affordable, eat your view meals! Kudos to the owners of The White Hart! Read more here... |
This Week's Recipe: Cauliflower with Parsley & Vinegar
 This recipe comes from Alice Water's book, In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart.
It's a wonderful cookbook with essential cooking techniques to be
learned by heart plus more than 50 recipes-for delicious fresh, local,
and seasonal meals-from Alice and her friends, including this one from
Dan Barber, owner and chef of Blue Hill Restaurants in New York & Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Westchester.
Click here to get the recipe....
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NickBee's Eco-Store: Local Inkjet & Toner Source - Save money and save the planet!
 The
other day, I got an email from Auntie M telling me she had a new tip for Hammertown and our readers. Her printer, she said, had run out of ink right in the middle of an important writing
project. "It was SO frustrating because it seemed I'd just put a new
one in...you know what I'm talking about!" Well, it turns out she found a quick...and LOCAL...solution in Millerton. And now Hammertown will be using them too! Read more...
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Our "April is Earth Month Think Green" Sale Continues!
Hammertown's "Think Green Sale"celebrates Earth Day (April 22nd) with a sale every day in April. There are so many ways we can do some good for our earth...even while we shop!
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Thanks to Richard Wheeler for the beautiful photograph of the swans he took at Thompson Pond near Stissing Mountain.
See you all soon!
Joan
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