Strawberry season is a special time of year. Here in Central Pennsylvania, strawberries ripen in late May to early June. For two to three weeks, strawberries play a starring role at every roadside stand and farmers market. Hand-picked local strawberries are the best. It’s worth a few aches and pains to crouch in the strawberry […]
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Today, we trashed the 2017 calendar and hung the 2018 calendar in its rightful place on the kitchen wall, a ritual cleansing of sorts. Flipping through the crisp new pages with their attractive and seasonal photos, I felt inspired to do something I’ve shunned before – create a list of New Year’s resolutions. Uh, oh.
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We’ve all done it. In a winery tasting room or fine-dining restaurant, at a crowded party or simply relaxing at home, we’ve all held up our glass to the light and asked, “What’s in this wine?” Besides the alcohol, that is. Well, for starters, there are long chains of organic compounds. They’re the result of
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Once, on a road trip between Pennsylvania and Atlanta, we veered off truck-choked Route 81 and wandered back roads into a small southwestern Virginia hamlet for a bite to eat. We found a family-style restaurant where the locals drawled in a regional dialect we found charming. I’ve long forgotten what I ordered, but I’m sure
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Glacially gouged Lake Seneca is a protective godmother to the vineyards ringing her shoreline. Deep as she is – 640 feet at her deepest – Seneca rarely, if ever, freezes over in winter. She spreads a blanket of warmth over the vines to temper the cold. In summer, she reflects the heat back on the
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