“I wouldn’t say we’re ‘cutting-edge.’ We’re not gluing things together with scallop enzymes. But we make honest, good food.”

Saturday-Sunday, Feb. 2-3: Try this mid-winter English tradition that involves making a racket to awaken the apple tree spirits and encourage blossoming for a good harvest.

Saturday, January 26: Guests will judge chicken wings prepared by more than 30 area makers. Wings classic and radical in flavor will compete for the prestigious top honor.

Saturday, January 26: Entrepreneur Konstanze Zeller is opening her Colonial home for a special eight-course, plant-based meal infused with full-spectrum cannabidiol oil, including cocktails, appetizers and special chocolates for dessert. Zeller is head of Cocorau, a company that specializes in raw cacao bites and adaptogenic elixir powders, both containing CBD from organically grown hemp.

The good humor, imagination, artistry and Old World skill in effect was irresistible and moving: a megadose of vitamin Christmas. And of course, Mohonk served tea and cookies.

Great coffee and Montreal-style bagels at the Mud Club in Woodstock.

Sunday, Nov. 18: There’s a competition for home-fermented concoctions, 100 vendors, live music, and late in the afternoon, the Pickle Triathlon gets underway with a Pickle-Eating Contest, a Pickle-Juice-Drinking Contest and a Pickle-Tossing Contest.