Miami Mami s ropa vieja con mofongo On a Monday afternoon in a back room of Zachary s Pizza in South Burlington, Oscar Arencibia was making his grandmother s recipe for flan. Plush animals (arcade prizes stacked on nearby shelves) and a reporter bore witness. Using a stand mixer, Arencibia combined eggs with three kinds of milk evaporated, whole and sweetened condensed along with vanilla extract and a pinch of salt. This recipe goes back four generations, he said. The caramel-drenched baked custard was a trial batch for the Sunday takeout dinners Arencibia started in April under the name Santiago s. He rents kitchen space from Zachary s to test the local appetite for a small restaurant he hopes to open.
A customer walking into Ecco Clothes in Burlington While shopping along Burlington s Church Street Marketplace last week, Haley Moriarty spotted the perfect graduation dress on a rack at Ecco Clothes. The high school senior from Connecticut, who plans to attend the University of Vermont in the fall, fell in love with the creamy white mini with spaghetti straps and a bow across the open back. While Moriarty s mother mulled it over, Ecco salesperson Ava Vacherot offered them the 10 percent UVM student discount, though Haley hadn t yet started on campus. Then Vacherot slipped into the boutique s back room and returned with a black graduation gown for Moriarty to try on over the little white dress.
Courtesy of Vermont Department of Health Daniel Lyons Daniel Lyons and his nephew Philip were 12 years apart but “super close,” says Daniel. They lived together when his nephew was younger; Daniel thought of Philip as a brother.
Ask Daniel to describe Philip, and he’ll unleash a torrent of words: “He was passionate,” says his uncle. “Super funny. Easy to get along with, though he had his convictions. He loved a good conversation and a good argument. Not to the point where you’d get angry, but he’d push you to think.”
Daniel, who works as a special educator at Champlain Valley Union High School, says that Philip was also a terrific chef. “He went to college for hospitality for a few years, took cooking classes and just loved it,” Daniel recalls.
GlobalFoundries, the Essex Junction-based semiconductor manufacturer, paid a whopping $36 million power bill last year. "We are an energy hog," acknowledges Greg Rieder, a top.
For Jasmine Klein, life in Vermont's prisons has been a punishment beyond her sentence. Last November, Klein, a transgender woman, was transferred to Chittenden Regional.