The Food and Drink Issue • 1996

The Food and Drink Issue • 1996

Published July 24 / Vol. 1 / No. 45

All You Can Eat: A Seven Days Celebration of Vermont Food and Drink; The Ag Department Gets Fresh; An Interview With Mr. Tomato Head; Bill Wetherbee’s Moveable Feast; Food News: Shrooms, Chevre and Salmonella; What’s Your Specialty? Four Food Groups; The Best – and Worst – Creemee Stands; Flour Power: A History of Bread; Freyne […]

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In their first face-to-face, reporters are treated to a Sweetser-Sanders exchange on welfare reform. Bernie’s opponent gets the facts wrong.

Peter Freyne

Food + Drink

Cross Dressings and Haute Sauce: Vermont specialty food producers spice things up

It’s not simple pleasures anymore,” laughs Martha Thilbourg Chaplin about her 3-year-old gourmet vinegars enterprise called Life’s Simple Pleasures. The Bristol producer is still small potatoes compared to other Vermont specialty foods entrepreneurs distributing nationwide. She is, after all, also a full-time social worker. But the vinegar business hasn’t gone sour for Chaplin despite the…

Pamela Polston