Cheese board at Mad River Taste Place Credit: Sally Pollak

Food-hopping in the Mad River Valley, a perennial delight, will blossom in coming days at Mad River Taste Week. From tastings to tours to demos, the weeklong event will showcase brewing, beekeeping, cider making, cheese-and-beer pairings, hydroponic farming and more. Festivities begin Saturday, August 3, at 5 p.m. with a pig roast on the Mad River Green and wind down a week later with the Vermont Cheesemakers Dinner at the Inn at Round Barn Farm in Waitsfield.

This article appears in Jul 31 – Aug 6, 2019.

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Sally Pollak was a staff writer at Seven Days from 2017 until she retired in summer 2023. She started as a Food contributor before transitioning to the Arts & Culture team. Her first newspaper job was compiling horse racing results at the Philadelphia...