Article: NIBBLES AND NOTES; SKANEATELES FESTIVAL COOKBOOK COMPILES RECIPES FROM MUSICIANS AND FANS.(CNY)

Byline: Don Cazentre Food & Drink editor

Food has been key to the success of the Skaneateles Festival since it began 30 years ago.

oThatAEs how we helped lure the musicians, and how we kept many of them coming back,o said Louise Robinson, one of the month-long chamber music festivalAEs founders.

oWe fed them. If you feed them well, theyAEll play well and theyAEll come back.o

Feeding (and housing) the musicians who perform pieces by Handel, Mozart and Mendelssohn started as a way to mask the organizersAE lack of money to put them up in

nice hotels and pay the bills at fancy restaurants.

The homemade feasts quickly ...

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