Local Flavor

LISTENING TO OUR PEEPS After a winter of serious fruitcake eating, Vermonters anticipate the first tastes of spring:  fiddleheads, tart rhubarb and wild greens are among the flavors that announce the fresh new season.  But it is the first sounds of spring that draw us into the natural world around us pulsing with life.  When [...]

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Exactly what does the old expression nutty as a fruitcake mean?  In 1935, when southern baking companies had access to plenty of inexpensive nuts,  their nut-dense fruitcakes earned the description that became part of American vernacular.  Later usage of the phrase implied that a person who was nutty as a fruitcake was a bit mad.  [...]

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Those of us who live in the forested hills on the back roads of Vermont learn quickly that losing power is part of life here, whether it’s from downed power lines in an ice storm or the fury of Tropical Storm Irene.  When the lights go out we either fire up the generators or make [...]

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What do Vermont Turkeys and Cavendish Fruitcake have in common?  Besides being delicious?  We’ve all heard about local food and slow food and good food as qualifiers for appealing meals.  We took that literally and bought our turkey, hand raised by our friend Joe MacDonald in Mt. Holly, Vermont.  He let his birds grow a wee [...]

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Cavendish is known as the home of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Cavendish Gorge, and the most famous skull in neurology (Phineas Gage)  But Cavendish Canyon? When Tropical Storm Irene raged through Vermont on August 28, Cavendish lost the eastern end of scenic Route 131 that winds along the beautiful Black River.  Always a favorite route for bikers, [...]

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Andrew is happy to remove his apron and take your order.  Give him a call.  You know if you have ordered before, Andrew will remember you.

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