Flora or Fauna, That’s What One Berkshires Chef Asks Dinner Guests

Originally published in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, March 27, 2024. By Linda Laban.

This spring, Red Shirt Farm turned up on a list — the kind of list that means something. Writing about Sage and Sparrow, the tasting-menu restaurant at Wheatleigh in Lenox, food writer Linda Laban profiled executive chef RJ Cooper’s hyper-local sourcing for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. Below is the excerpt.

“All menus are seasonally inspired, with a hyper-local focus as Cooper also sources from the area’s High Lawn Farm, Bartlett’s Orchard, Red Shirt Farm, Sawyer Farm, and Scarecrow Farm.”

Sage and Sparrow’s dinners unfold as a “flora or fauna” choice — a plant-based or meat-based tasting menu built around whatever local purveyors have on hand that week. Read the full review at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette (syndicated via NewsBreak).