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…