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A Hollywood film crew frenzy, a caterpillar takeover and an Uber dilemma top the region’s post-pandemic headlines. BY NATALIE MOORE
THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLARS
It’s poetic, almost, that just a month after beloved children’s author and illustrator Eric Carle, best known for The Very Hungry Caterpillar, passed away, the northeast—New York, Carle’s birth state, included— would see a severe outbreak of gypsy moth caterpillars. Though darker and fuzzier than Carle’s famous greenand-red bug, these gypsy moth larvae are just as hungry, wreaking havoc on plants from Glenville and Queensbury to the Finger Lakes and Burlington, VT. The New York Department of Conservation says the critters will start to disappear by July, but as anyone who’s read Carle’s masterpiece knows, caterpillars don’t stay caterpillars forever. Stay tuned for the impending moth-pocalypse.
During the pandemic, Plumb Oyster Bar owner Heidi Knoblauch decided to temporarily close down her Troy restaurant. As of June 17, though, Plumb is back in action with a brand-new concept: It’s hosting a new “Chef in Residence” series, which gives foodies the chance to try experimental cuisine from some of the Capital Region’s hottest chefs in an established…well, establishment. First up are chefs Alexander Goldman of Five Senses Private Catering and Quang Tran of Quang’s Vietnamese Bistro, whose pop-up restaurant concept, Clermont, will populate Plumb through mid-September.
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