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Monthly Archives: March 2011
How did Italian food conquer the world? Garlic! One Clove at a Time
The April Fools Day forecast for Vermont and the Northeast is for snow. Heavy, wet snow: 8 inch accumulation and 30-degree temperatures. It might not be pretty. So like many of my fellow Vermonters, I’ll be seeking solace in food. … Continue reading
Posted in Gourmet Food with Garlic
Tagged Best-of-VT, Famous Chefs, Italian food, pasta, snow, Terry Gross, Vermont
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Vermont Maple History and the Union of Maple and Garlic
As winter clings to Vermont (temperatures only in the 20s and 30s this week), Vermonters revel in a little sweet tradition: maple sugaring. Sugar shacks across the state are ablaze with wood-fired boilers reducing sap to Vermont maple syrup (the … Continue reading
Posted in Gourmet Food with Garlic
Tagged Best-of-VT, garlic scapes, history, maple sugar, maple syrup
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Garlic and Irish Food
In the States, and particularly in Vermont, we like to think that we invented everything gourmet. We started the local food movement, we started CSAs, we invented the garlic festival, right? But on the eve of Saint Patrick’s Day we … Continue reading
Garlic and great cabin fever busters: Foodie Books
Garlic cures everything, including cabin fever. But this is not the only reason I love garlic. I love its lore, its effect on our health, its flavor. It can be sweet (roasted or baked) it can be incredibly piquant (raw). … Continue reading
Posted in Garlic Lore
Tagged Appetite for Life, Best-of-VT, cancer, chefs, Famous Chefs, Grant Achatz, Italian food, Julia Child, the french chef
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