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Breakfast
Gould’s Sugar House in Shelburne, MA
03.30.09 | Permalink | Comment?

What: Gould’s Sugar House
Where: Shelburne, MA on the Mohawk Trail
Highlights: Everything, really. Pancakes are text book examples of everything you want in a pancake; light, fluffy, hot, golden brown, and ready to soak up just a little butter and then loads and loads of this season’s maple syrup, made on the premises. Sausage is mildly [...]
Markets
Musings on Arnold’s Meats in East Longmeadow, MA
01.12.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Growing up in a small town in Kentucky we did most of our shopping at one grocery store in town. Here in Connecticut I tend to be quite a bit more eclectic but a lot of this is out of necessity - a lot of products at the big grocery chains like Price Chopper, Shaws, [...]
Coffee
Starting the Day At Shelburne Falls Coffee Roasters
08.23.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

In Shelburne Falls, MA just off the Mohawk Trail is one of the coziest places to stop for a coffee break I’ve ever encountered.

See? Cozy, like stepping into someone’s living room. I’ve now been to Shelburne Falls Coffee Roasters twice and each time has been more of a pit-stop than anything else but I do [...]
BBQ
Pigging Out In Style at Bub’s BBQ
07.11.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Nestled into a roadside just north of UMASS in Sunderland, MA is an eatery you might not expect to exist, or, at the least, you might not expect to be this good.
The first clue that Bub’s BBQ is good eating is the unassuming exterior. Much of the outside seems thrown together, ramshackle, even, with a [...]