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Provender Kitchen: Fine Dining in Berryville

September 6, 2026

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Provender Kitchen is excellent. And it’s in Berryville. This is not a normal combination. We approve.

Our first visit was on opening weekend. Delicious and intimate. Romey and I really enjoyed ourselves. Kurt and Jodi have a great thing going.

Much of the produce is grown by the owners. Other sourcing is from local farms.

It’s fun to see what the chef(s) come up with using the very same garden ingredients that we have in our garden.

We returned the very next week with friends. The menu was transformed and was once again creative and delicious.

Sweet corn and crab.

Pay them a visit!

Watermellon

September 6, 2026

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August Bounty Cooks Up

September 6, 2026

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The garden was nicely productive this year. Here are some of the things we did with our fruits and vegetables.

Greek salad

Fried Rice with Zucchini

Tomato and Zucchini Paperdelle

Garlic and Onions and Tomato Compote

Pickled Jalapeno

Yum!

Riverside Parlor Concert: August 9, 2026

September 6, 2026

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Romey and I remain delighted to have a world-class concert series booting up across the road. (In fact, we’re so pleased that we’re happy to help support the series.) Read more about the first concerts here.

This iteration featured classical guitar and flute.

Here are some recordings from the concert itself. I wish I had recorded more of the Piazollo.

Piazollo Tango IV. Today
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Traditional Irish South Wind
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Black Orpheus
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Desafinado
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Look at all the Lonely People
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Spooky
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Slihouette (solo guitar)
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Oopstock 33

August 4, 2026

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33 years in a row? The felst, aka Oopstock, aka, Rhinefest is almost past the age of possibly being the messiah. Seems unlikely, but representation these days is very surprising. It was a great iteration…though short for us.

Rhine and April had just returned from their stint in South America and out West (skipping the Stick!) one week ahead of the big party. They are crazy.

Of note. Puppets. And crazy neighbor charisma and talent.

Nick would not like this aspect of puppetry.

Puppets even play the bass.

Rhine and April were in rare form (along with “Other Gary”…I being the nice one these days. We do need some spares in case of emergency though.). It’s like they practiced or something.

I didn’t record the new ones…boo. But Romey already knew all the words.

We were in and out with Spool again using Boston as a base of operations. Raffles for the win this year…a far sight better than the pool full of kids.