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Melissa Pasanen

Melissa Pasanen

Melissa Pasanen is a food writer for Seven Days. She is an award-winning cookbook author and journalist who has covered food and agriculture in Vermont for 20 years.

@tasteofvermont

pasanen@sevendaysvt.com

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New Owners Honor and Refresh Norman Rockwell’s Southern Vermont Home

New Owners Honor and Refresh Norman Rockwell’s Southern Vermont Home November 24, 2020

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Twelve Places for Thanksgiving Takeout in Vermont November 19, 2020

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Pandemic-Era Delivery Services Bring Local Food to Your Front Door November 17, 2020

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New Owners Honor and Refresh Norman Rockwell’s Southern Vermont Home

Some historic buildings, including Vermont inns, come with ghosts. But the new owners of a colonial-era inn in Arlington inherited a different set of…

By Melissa Pasanen | Nov 24, 2020 | Staytripper

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Home on the Range: Holiday Squash Rolls

I didn't grow up with big Thanksgiving gatherings of food and family. Although my parents were American, I was raised in England far away…

By Melissa Pasanen | Nov 20, 2020 | Home on the Range

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Twelve Places for Thanksgiving Takeout in Vermont

If you're missing your normal kitchen helpers this Thanksgiving, Vermont restaurants are ready to pitch in from pumpkin-smoked bacon soup to nuts — as in dark chocolate-caramel pecan pie.

By Jordan Barry and Melissa Pasanen | Nov 19, 2020 | Good To-Go

Food + Drink
Pandemic-Era Delivery Services Bring Local Food to Your Front Door

Depending on whom you ask, online shopping and food delivery apps have either ruined us or made modern life worth living. During the COVID-19…

By Jordan Barry, Melissa Pasanen, and Sally Pollak | Nov 17, 2020 | Food + Drink Features

Food + Drink
Lakeside Doc Ponds in Burlington Is a Long Way Off

You may have heard about plans for a lakeside restaurant in Burlington from the team behind Doc Ponds in Stowe, Hen of the Wood…

By Melissa Pasanen | Nov 17, 2020 | Food News

Food + Drink

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Home on the Range: Harvest-Stuffed Squash

When my now 23-year-old son was about half that age, he was obsessed with soccer. One day, he asked me if I loved cooking…

By Melissa Pasanen | Nov 17, 2020 | Home on the Range

Food + Drink
Weathering the Storm: Vermont Restaurants Brace for a Pandemic Winter

The arms of a new ventilation system crawl across the ceiling at Stone Corral Brewery in Richmond, reaching over the bespoke plexiglass-and-wood dividers between…

By Jordan Barry, Melissa Pasanen, and Sally Pollak | Nov 10, 2020 | Food + Drink Features

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Scale Poké Bar Adds Essex Junction Location

Neil and Perry Farr opened Scale Poké Bar in Williston in March of 2018. Fewer than three years later, in the middle of a pandemic,…

By Melissa Pasanen | Nov 9, 2020 | Bite Club

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