Overnight in Woodstock

Combining business with pleasure, Cafe D. overnighted in the hippy-dippy yet achingly charming town of Woodstock, NY, visiting potential DP Chutney Collective vendors while savoring most our time with old Park Slope friend and crony from the early '90s, Ruth Kopelman. Ruth was gracious enough to not only provide us shelter for the night in her woodland retreat (a cozier-than-thou bungalow deep amongst the pines and maples of Ulster County) but to also treat us to a festive dinner at Woodstock's health-centric Middle Eastern eatery, Joshua's Cafe (51 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY 12498). 

Of course CD explored less the clean eating side of the establishment in favor of good dry Gimlets, an appetizer of mixed Mid-East "tapas" (baba ganoush, hummus, pickles peppers and tabbouleh), a dinner salad enriched with thick and dreamy tahini dressing and a stomach-stretching entree of near-perfect moussaka (layered correctly with ground lamb, cinnamon-kissed tomatoes, tender grilled eggplant and burnished with a decadent egg custard). Thank heavens it came sided with grilled zucchini and tomatoes and a mound of buttery brown rice.