Tom Gilbert Eggs from Black Dirt Farm often come with unexpected side dishes: printed notes nestled between the ungraded brown eggs and the cardboard carton. In the fall, those messages showcased the Merriam-Webster definitions of democracy and white supremacy to show that the two are mutually exclusive. This winter, pink inserts cite the figure that one in three Vermont women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime, along with contact information for shelters. If the fridge and breakfast table seem like unconventional places for sparking discussions of human rights, Black Dirt Farm owner Tom Gilbert is not worried. We are intentionally provoking a conversation, and we re open to feedback, he said during a recent tour of his Stannard farm.
Seven Days Rosemary-sea salt bagel with scallion cream cheese I never thought I’d call a New York City bagel-eater deprived, but that’s the conclusion I’ve come to after reading the top bagel picks of the
New York Times food editors. Their bagel preferences were posted January 23 on @nytcooking, the newspaper’s food Instagram page. The culinary pros in the bagel capital of the world announced choices like bacon, egg and cheese on toasted cinnamon; whole wheat everything with tofu veggie cream cheese; and egg everything with cream cheese and bacon.
WTF?! No one picked a rosemary-sea salt bagel, an outstanding addition to a food landscape that s bereft of nothing. For a bagel traditionalist like me with a half-century preference for poppy and sesame, a variety that knocks them out of the toaster is front-page news. Not a glossy on the gram.
View of McCullough Turnpike on Route 17
Montpelier resident Brenda Greika has settled into a weekend routine during the pandemic. She packs up her car with ample food and drinks, pops a Starline Rhythm Boys or Patti Casey CD into her player, and drives to a Vermont town she s never been to before.
To celebrate Halloween, Greika visited Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven to see a gravestone with a window built into it. It belongs to 19th-century doctor Timothy Clark Smith, who feared being buried alive and was reportedly entombed with a hammer. In January, Greika ended up at the NorthWoods Stewardship Center in East Charleston, where she communed with a barred owl.
Winter Dipping in Lake Champlain In January, the UK s
Guardianwrote about the exhilarating joy of outdoor ice-bathing, a centuries-old practice that has soared during lockdown as a much-needed pandemic stress reliever and endorphin releaser. It s pretty normal if you re in Sweden or Denmark or Finland, said Burlington painter Katharine Montstream of the pastime. In the UK, this is
huge, and it s really blowing up. Especially with [the] pandemic, they have had a huge surge of people wanting to do this and needing outlets. The same is true in Vermont, it seems. Montstream has been winter dipping regularly in Lake Champlain for three years, but the pandemic prompted her to begin plunging in nearly every day. She s amassed a group of friends, playfully dubbed the Red Hot Chilly Dippers, who join in her shivery adventures. Montstream documents their dips through photos and videos on an Instagram page that has more than 1,500 followers.
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