2008 Woodie Awards
Homelessness has its stereotypical depictions: men and women in dirty clothes begging in the street, shantytowns in cities' peripheries and people sleeping on park benches. In Vermont, and especially in Middlebury, those images couldn't be further from the true nature of homelessness.
The thick, warm chocolate. The soft, yielding dough. Ah, chocolate chip cookies. As any junk food connoisseur knows, these delightful morsels are most certainly not created equal. Some are endowed by their creator with some extra oomph - a little more oozing chocolate here, a little more scrumptious dough there.
Vermont ski resorts are gearing up for the season with high hopes for heavy snow. Given last winter's dismal performance of feeble snowfalls and dreary rainstorms, most ski resorts are especially dependent on high snow accumulation this year. So what is in store for this snow season? It is almost December and Middlebury is still feeling eerily warm.
For those of us looking for sushi here in Middlebury, the Asiana House in Burlington fulfills that Japanese desire with its menu ranging from standard favorites like shrimp tempura and teriyaki salmon to innovative sushi maki. Due to its wide range of sushi and cooked entrees, Asiana House accommodates a very broad range of customers, even those who may fear their first bite of raw fish.
After a two-day-long Thanksgiving extravaganza (yes, my family goes all out and celebrates two nights), the idea of gobbling down more food seemed an impossible feat. But on the third day after Turkey Day I was finally able to end the holiday weekend with a true finale dessert at Daily Chocolate, a local gourmet chocolate shop nestled halfway down Green Street in Vergennes.