Can’t make it to Dublin, Ireland, for St. Patrick’s Day? Consider Dublin, Ohio for a weekend of festivities.
Can’t make it to Dublin, Ireland, for St. Patrick’s Day? Consider Dublin, Ohio for a weekend of festivities.
Pork is considered lucky because pigs root forward with their noses, unlike other animals. By moving forward into 2022 life should change for the better.
Tagged: New Year's Day, Pork roast recipe
The Chef’s Garden: A Modern Guide to Common and Unusual Vegetables–with Recipes by Farmer Lee Jones is an inspiring 640-page hardback tome that introduces regenerative farming, unusual vegetable use and the future of dining.
For the wine immersion tour we visited three wineries in the Grand River Valley appellation for experiences in wine pairing, barrel tasting and sparkling wines.
Tagged: Grand River Valley, Ohio Wine
Writer Paris Wolfe received a First Place nod from the North American Mature Publication Association Awards for 2016 travel writing in two issues of Northeast Ohio Boomer and Beyond magazine. This is one of the stories deemed excellent by judges from the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri located in Columbia, Missouri. Northeast Ohio parents send their kids to Columbus for college. And they turn up again for Parent & Family Weekend and sports. But vacation there? Without Ohio State sports? Why? Because the state capital is close enough for a quick trip, and it’s far enough to feel like an escape. This city in the center of the state offers vibrant daytime and nightlife activities for active adults. The new Scioto…
Tagged: Columbus, German Village, Ohio, Travel, weekend
The cheese platter is so yesterday. It’s been enhanced, even replaced, by charcut erie — the dried, cured, fermented and otherwise processed meats of yesteryear. Dried and cured doesn’t mean a plastic-wrapped Hickory Farms summer sausage from Christmas last year or fabricated luncheon meats from the deli counter, but hand-crafted fennel salami, dried lamb chorizo, kabanosy meat sticks, kielbasa and other forgotten fare You’ll find options at restaurants from downtown Cleveland’s Butcher and Brewer to Madison’s Laurentia Winery. From M Cellars in Harpersfield Township to Hansa Brewery in Cleveland’s Ohio City. “People will stay interested in charcuterie as long as the rustic vibe is trendy,” says Chef Mia Humphrey of Laurentia Winery. She lists canning, pickling, and fermentation as part of that vibe. The…
Tagged: Charcuterie, Food, Ohio