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Joe DizneyColumnist

Joe Dizney is a designer, art director and unrepentant sensualist. When the Cold Spring resident is not thinking about food, he is foraging for, cooking or eating it.

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Small, Good Things: Another Green World

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney May 10, 2015September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Asparagus risotto fits the bill for a lingering cool evening

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Small, Good Things: Food for Thought

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney April 26, 2015September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Shopping, cooking and eating for the long term

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Small, Good Things: Home Ecosophy

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney April 14, 2015September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

What we eat has an impact and meaning

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Small, Good Things: Getting Jiggly

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney April 1, 2015September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

A very simple but infinitely flexible recipe

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Small, Good Things: Organizing Principles

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney March 19, 2015September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

If we are going to eat meat, we must do it mindfully

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Small, Good Things: Decisively Vague

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney March 4, 2015September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Are you a fennel lover or a fennel hater?

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Small, Good Things: Chocolate and Flowers

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney February 14, 2015September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”

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Small, Good Things: Defense Mechanism

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney February 4, 2015September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

An obsession with milk and meat and comfort food

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Small, Good Things: Preserving My Sanity

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney January 21, 2015September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

An idea perhaps more loco than locavore

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Small, Good Things: Gone to the Dogs

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney January 4, 2015September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

A New Year’s treat for the canine boulevardier

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Small, Good Things: The Lady’s Choice

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney December 25, 2014September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

A holiday rumination on oysters and artichokes

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Small, Good Things: An American Native

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney December 10, 2014September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Short on visual appeal, but long on comfort

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Small, Good Things: The Remains of the Day

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney November 21, 2014September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Laissez les bon temps roulez!

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Small, Good Things: Into the Woods

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney November 17, 2014September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

The upside of winter’s approach: wild mushrooms

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Documentary Buck Stops at 
the Garrison Institute

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney November 16, 2014March 26, 2016 Why you can trust The Current

Film about horse whisperer is part of weekend retreat

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Small, Good Things: Trick, or Treat?

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney October 31, 2014September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

You can’t beat this dish for shock value

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Eyes Wide Open

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney October 6, 2014March 29, 2016 Why you can trust The Current

The art of Kongtrul Jigme Namgyel

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Small, Good Things: Gone Native

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney October 1, 2014September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Exploring the culinary gifts of the New World

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Small, Good Things: What’s In a Name?

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney September 24, 2014September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Sapahn, grits, armottes, putu, polenta — it’s all good

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Small, Good Things: Let’s Go Get Stoned

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney September 10, 2014September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Stone fruit, that is (peaches, plums, apricots, cherries)

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Beacon Sound Shack Insists ‘Vinyl Is Final’

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney August 10, 2014January 21, 2016 Why you can trust The Current

Shop offers diverse inventory

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Small, Good Things: Gone Native

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney August 6, 2014September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

There’s no telling where a “successful” recipe will come from, or what defines success

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Small, Good Things: Leaves, Berries and Seeds

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney July 30, 2014September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Tabbouleh as a jumping-off point to high summer “cooking”

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Small, Good Things: Technology and Terroir

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney April 16, 2014September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

We must admit to a large amount of “operator error”

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Small, Good Things: Culinary Quidnunc

Avatar photo by Joe Dizney April 9, 2014September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

The crunchy “It Girl” of the brassica family

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