Five Vermont Poems
Poems in four seasons by Vermont writer Hannah Silverstein
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At Home at the Table
When dinner is a pilgrimage and each course prompts reflection, the meal ends up being about more than just food
Eat Your Turnips
An American cook and gardener translates some curious Italian gardening advice to her New England home terroir
Suzy-Q
Sweet memories of days at the lake.
My Journey to Terroir
How might we produce a wine that contributes meaningfully to the world library — a wine not just with personality, but with identity?
Four Kingdoms and a Place: Committing to Wine of Terroir
Without the farmer there would be no farm. There would be no food. And, to our focus today: Without the farmer, there would be no wine.
Some Lessons on Beauty and Terroir
Arguments and revelations, courtesy of Müller-Catoir’s luminous Rieslings.
Toward a New Lexicon for American Wine
We need a shared language to describe not just where, but how a wine was made
Young Red Wine, Wise Red Wine
Evaluating a young red wine is an exercise in prognostication: Is the wine worthy? Also: Is the exercise worthy?
Sicily is Delicious
Sicily’s sunny terroir yields flavors what will brighten kitchens everywhere
Ploughgate Creamery Butter, Cultured on a Vermont Farm
In Vermont’s Mad River Valley, Marisa Mauro cranks out delicious cultured butters
Blending: A Rumination, Prompted by The Discussion
Blending is about more than attaining equilibrium