We cannot go anywhere without indulging our taste buds and appetites.  The local hot spot for dinner seemed to be American Flatbread (the original at Lareau Farm), where pizzas are made in an earthen oven with 80% local ingredients. Some of those ingredients come from Hartshorn Farm! 

 

The state favorite seems to be a Burlington burger, called the Sizzler, strangely available in a convenience store.  The grill is nothing extraordinary, but the burger is in fact quite tasty.  A stealthy option for dining is Himitsu Sushi, a tiny pop-up eating experience that works out of other establishments on pre-determined days.  The 2-person team moves around Vermont, offering a wide assortment of sushi and Japanese cuisine.  Himitsu happens to be the perfect name for a pop-up restaurant serving food in 4 different towns 4 days of the week: it means “secret.”

 

Other random delights among our discoveries are the Mocha Almond Thriller from Green Mountain Café, the Milky Way from Black Cap Coffee in Stowe (instantly a favorite hangout spot), and the Ram Island Lemon Lavender, a liquor lemonade drink from Blackback Pub in Waterbury.  For dessert, we loved Canteen’s creemies (what Vermonters call ice cream), especially the Blueberry Honey Creemie.

 

Last but not least, we have to mention Cabot Cheese.  The wonderful people at Cabot kindly welcome tourists to try their cheeses—all of them—and other goodies, at their main store.  There must be at least 30 different kinds of cheeses, all spread out over a table, with thousands of toothpicks calling to be picked.  A constant rotation of tourists and tasters circle the table, stabbing cubes of cheese and savoring the results.  All you can eat before you either become too full or too guilty of taking more than your share. We were tourists the first time, but admittedly not the second and third.