by Stacey Brandt When Sharon Herbert first told Seven Days about her plans for Sauce Italian Specialties, back in March, she described a homey take-out joint dishing quality Italian food just like Grandma used to make it. Now, after a few last-minute delays — Herbert debuted briefly over Memorial Day weekend, then closed to work out a few...
READ MORENell'Hope Cemetery di Barre, in Vermont, è possibile guidare nei viali tra le tombe, tanto è grande l'area. Le lapidi sono tutte dello stesso granito chiaro che costituisce la materia prima su cui ha prosperato l'industria della zona. L'impressione è di estremo ordine, ravvivato dai colori accesi dell'autunno sui monti Appalachi. Colpisce...
READ MORETerrill Street Discount Beverage has been quenching Rutland's thirst since 1983. A family-owned business run by father Joe Coloutti and sons, Bob and Mike, the store recently expanded its services in order to ease its patrons' hunger too. Here Bob Coloutti discusses the new Paisano's Italian Kitchen. What is the nature of your business?  ...
READ MOREby Hannah Palmer Egan Utter the word "pizza" to New Yorkers living in Vermont, and they'll wax poetic about the thin-crusted, orange-grease-dripping, foldable slices of paradise of their hometown. There, they'll tell you, a typical lunch means two slices and a soda for about $5. Usually they'll lament the lack of comparable fare farther no...
READ MOREby Hannah Palmer Egan There's plenty to do in Burke: Despite struggling through bankruptcies and ownership changes in recent years, Q Burke Mountain Resort draws thousands of visitors each winter. In the summer, Kingdom Trails is one of Vermont's premier mountain biking destinations. And even as controversy continues to swirl around the half-built...
READ MOREby Lynn Monty An old family recipe for making hot chocolate is just one aspect of what makes Italian heritage rich in Burlington. Never forgetting the city's displacement of neighborhoods due to urban renewal is another. Bringing to light what happened in the heart of the Queen City in the 1960s has become a Vermont Italian Club m...
READ MOREWhat do you get when you put together a hungry servant, a know-it-all Latin speaking doctor and a string of sausages? Will Pulcinella finally propose to Colombina or will he be distracted by the seductive noblewoman Flaminia? You get Pazzi Lazzi in Aria di Commedia ! You'll Giggle at Dottore's "little problem" and the beautiful Flaminia's long...
READ MOREDo you love Italian food? Of course you do, but you probably don't love it as much as Joe Faro, the Owner and 'Chief Food Taster' at the sprawling Tuscan Kitchen in Burlington. "Tuscan Kitchen is an artisan Italian experience. We are taking scratch Italian specialties, and we are celebrating those with our guests." Faro's passion for...
READ MOREBy Lee Marshall In the hands of Italian filmmaker Giovanni Donfrancesco, an outwardly simple documentary about a Vermont granite-mining town and the Tuscan anarchist and socialist quarrymen who migrated there at the beginning of the 20thcentury becomes something rich and strange. It's a cinematic Spoon River Anthology that acts bo...
READ MOREBy Hannah Marshall If you have a craving for Italian cooking at home in the mountain town of Stowe, you no longer have to slave over a hot stove for hours to make the perfect sauce, or fly in your friend's grandmother from the Old World. Sauce, the new specialty shop in town, has you covered. Owned by Sharon Herbert, the space at 407...
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