Looking to introduce your guests to some local specialties? Why not dazzle them with stellar cheeses from the region? Local cheesemakers produce a variety of styles—whether you favor creamy and mild or wild and pungent.
Gone are the hefeweizens, saisons, farmhouse ales and crisp pilsners. Poof! See you next year. As temperatures drop and the light takes on that certain autumnal glow, you need a new kind of brew—something strong, dark and mysterious to entertain your palate.
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#1 - Betty's Tasty Buttons - Betty’s Speakeasy offers their Tasty Buttons in a variety of seasonal flavors, including white chocolate eggnog and dark chocolate with cranberries and orange zest. Crafted using local cream and local goats’ milk, the bite-sized pieces of fudge are packaged in locally-made boxes.
The Wall Street Journal recently posted an article titled, “The Rise of the Lazy Locavore.” It covers the popularity of urban sharecropping, mostly along the West Coast and recently in Brooklyn. Landowners who lack a green thumb are partnering with gifted gardeners who don’t have backyard growing space, and would rather avoid community garden plots. Once
Flying Kite has a long feature on Gil Ortale, the man behind Market Day Canelé. We here at Grid love the things—crunchy on the outside, custardy on the inside—and featured the perfect pastries in our recent Holiday Gift Guide.
I’ve been known to laud Hanukah as the original green holiday—no decorations, no elaborate meat-based meals and an origin story in which one day’s worth of fuel burns for eight. And, adding to my smugness, my family was never big on gifts; dad gave us a little bit of cash (or gelt) and my mom
I come from people who believe that pickles are integral to a good sandwich, that dinner should be eaten around a table and that all the very best gifts are edible. In fact, one of my earliest memories includes reaching up to slip a cooling cookie off the kitchen counter, baked by my dad for
In February, I joined the band Hoots and Hellmouth at the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture’s (PASA) annual conference. More than once, I was asked if I was the group’s new bass player, or maybe their roadie. In fact, I’m the band’s farmer. It’s not a common title, but, when you work with a band
Last winter, after helping our neighbors shovel out of a blizzard, we were rewarded with a lovely pineapple. It got me thinking: “How do these things work?” Unfortunately, it remains a bit of a mystery, as last year’s attempts at pineapple propagation failed, and ditto the efforts to start an avocado tree.
