by Debbie | Aug 28, 2017 | Chefs' Consortium
Every year Noah Sheetz of the Chefs’ Consortium invites me to the annual chef-prepared Farm-to-Table Bannerman’s Island Fundraiser and it always seems to be the day of the Hudson Valley Wine & Spirits Competition (September 9th this year), so I can’t attend. I’m...
by Debbie | Aug 25, 2016 | Chefs' Consortium
Bannerman’s Island, you know that eye sore in the Hudson River when traveling by train into New York City just after Cold Spring. It’s really no eye sore when you find out the history behind it. Frank Bannerman built this fortress in the old...
by Debbie | Aug 21, 2014 | Chef Noah Sheetz, Chefs' Consortium
Bannerman’s Island (as I know it) is a tiny island in the Hudson River just off Route 9D outside Cold Spring, NY. Driving by the island as a child it looked scary but I always wanted to know what the history of it was and why it was vacant and...