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  By Anna Bowers	on February 23, 2012 at 4:23 PM
  Feeding a hungry staff before, during and after dinner service has created some intriguing creations at barVino in in the past. A lot of it is fried. Most of it involves some kind of cheese. This …
  February break: a time to be feared!
  By Claire Ziamandanis	on February 20, 2012 at 6:07 PM
  Most New York State schools began their February vacation week at the end of the school day this past Friday. President's Day, Monday the 20th, wraps into a week of excruciatingly painful fun-for-all …
  By Claire Ziamandanis	on February 18, 2012 at 1:10 PM
  For four years running, my esteemed employer, The College of Saint Rose, has been named to the prestigious list Great Colleges to Work For, by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Our own local The …
  By Anna Bowers	on February 16, 2012 at 6:00 AM
  Valentine's Day passed through barVino with a beautiful pre-fixe menu and glasses of Lamberti Rose Spumante. But to be honest, it was a quieter night than I had anticipated and near the end of the …
  Cooking Cioppino at Home
  By Bill Harris	on February 15, 2012 at 6:02 AM
  Holly told me that when she was young, her father would go through phases where he would prepare the same dish, night after night for weeks at a time, until at some point when he felt that he had gone …
  Not Your Typical Sunday Night Dinner
  By Bill Harris	on February 13, 2012 at 6:00 AM
  On the last Sunday in January, we held a black tie Chaine des Rotisseurs dinner in the upstairs river view banquet hall at Taste in downtown Albany. The Chaine is an international food and wine …
  By Silvia Meder Lilly	on February 11, 2012 at 6:58 AM
  I believe we've established that the folks that contribute to this blog enjoy traveling. Between Claire's love of all things Spanish, Bill's willingness to go basically anywhere where wine is produced …
  Of television and wine
  By Anna Bowers	on February 9, 2012 at 6:00 AM
  For someone who grew up in a house with very strict rules regarding how much and what type of television was watched (read: very limited and PBS), I'm embarrassed by the amount of time the t.v. is on …