Subject: Vermont

• Issues: Antiwar Tent Gets Crowded

  April 29, 2006

• Clip Job: 'Let's Buy New Jersey and Close It.'

  July 18, 2008

• Top Chef Loser Wins

  Spike Mendelsohn, the hat dude of Top Chef season 4, won the Burger Bash last night at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. His sliders--topped with applewood bacon, sharp Vermont cheddar, fried Vidalia onions, and chipotle barbecue sauce--grabbed three of the event's four awards. The burger, from Mendelsohn's Good Stuff Eatery in DC, narrowly beat out meat pies from Bobby Flay and Radius, last year's winner. However, not everyone agreed with the judges' decision (and indeed one of Spike's

  February 20, 2009

• Tender Is the Night in Paul Auster's Man in the Dark

  In a new novel, the author explores loss and literary experiment

  August 27, 2008

• Even at the Ecofest, Shopping Is a Natural Reaction

  October 8, 2008

• From Robert Frank's Beat Movies to a Nearly Unknown Staged Afternoon, at Anthology

  Anthology gets Frank

  November 5, 2008

• Director Mark Brokaw's Flat Spinning Into Butter

  March 25, 2009

• Hello, Blue Roses' The Portrait Is Finished and I Have Failed to Capture Your Beauty . . .

  Dan Bejar falls in love, calamity ensues

  January 22, 2008

• Two’s Too Tough

  May 23, 2000

• Just Snacking

  February 28, 2006

• Stop the Wedding!

  July 22, 2003

• Heads and Tales

  December 22, 1998

• Sound Bytes of Truth

  July 6, 1999

• Lesbian, Gay, and Binational

  Bill Proposes Immigration Rights for Queer Couples

  February 22, 2000

• PSA: Maple Syrup Shortage! Maybe!

  January 19, 2007

• Broadband for the Masses

  August 29, 2000

• Taking Back the Vote

  November 21, 2000

• NY Mirror

  January 9, 2001

• Nation

  June 5, 2001

• Five-Room Co-Op in 1905 Tenement

  November 13, 2001

• Academy Fight Songs

  February 12, 2002

• Gogol a Go-Go

  May 7, 2002

• Horoscope

  January 21, 2003

• Nation

  February 25, 2003

• Vanishing Liberties

  April 15, 2003

• State of the Unions

  May 27, 2003

• Ga-Ga-Ga-Goils! A Counterculture Cornerstone Turns 40

  November 18, 2003

• Best and Worst of 2003

  January 6, 2004

• Separate Still Not Equal

  February 3, 2004

• Full Mental Jacket: Traumatized Vet Seeks Better Tomorrow

  February 22, 2005

• Notes on Camp: Sedaris and Others Break Out the Bug Juice

  June 7, 2005

• Let There Be Lite

  February 27, 2007

• The Queer Agenda 2007

  June 12, 2007

• CIA Paranoia and the Lady from Vermont

  October 16, 2007

• Bliss Through Cheese

  Late bloomer taps into passion for goats

  May 30, 2006

• No More Sopranos, No More Chris Rock

  May 31, 2005

• Vermont, D.C. Keep the Same-Sexiness Coming

  The Vermont legislature approved same-sex marriage. The Governor vetoed it. Now the legislature has overridden his veto, making Vermont America's first legislatively-decided gay state. Hurrah! Iowa made us feel inadequate with its unanimous Supreme Court gayness, but Vermont has struck back for coastal elites. And so has the District of Columbia, whose Council just decided that D.C. will recognize SSM from out of state. East Near-Coast Rulez! Rightbloggers, deprived of their usual activist-jud

  April 7, 2009

• Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

  Well, some cowboy's Goin' Galt in Brooklyn Heights, anyway. Photo (c) Charles D Rightbloggers decided President Obama is a fascist. Despite this, and the aid and comfort he gives to pirates, the voters like him anyway -- which figures, since many of them are apparently socialists. Which may be why, despite protests, Obama Fried Chicken isn't changing its name. Mayor Bloomberg received the endorsement of the wacky Independence Party, gave help to non-profits, was accused of push-polled an op

  April 10, 2009

• Please Do Not Taunt Neko Case

  A country-noir maneater rises above her lovestruck/dumbstruck audience

  April 22, 2009

• Gay Marriage Wins in Maine; D.C. Fights to Recognize It

  Maine's got gay marriage. Governor John Baldacci signed a marriage equality bill that passed the state legislature this morning. New England is kicking New York's ass. Massachusetts got the ball rolling. New Hampshire's lawmakers have passed a gay marriage law that waits on the governor. Vermont overrode their governor's veto to get their bill passed, and Connecticut's state supreme court struck down a ban. Get on the ball, Rhode Island! Adding to the general gayness, the D.C. council voted t

  May 6, 2009

• Sriracha, Spotted Everywhere

  While eating with my in-laws at a stodgy fish restaurant in suburban Massachusetts, I asked the waiter for Sriracha, almost just to see what he would say. But he nodded knowingly, and brought out a dish of the red, garlicky hot sauce. That's when you know that Sriracha has hit the mainstream. That, and when Applebee's is using it to flavor fried shrimp. Over at the Times, John T. Edge has a great article about the American nature of Sriracha, and the Diners Journal blog has been searching for d

  May 20, 2009

• Organic Farmers Suffer Losses; Prisoners Excercise Their Green Thumbs

  Organic farmers are feeling the sting of the organic food trend slowing. Dairy farmers, especially, are suffering, and many have been told to cut milk production by up to 20 percent. The slowdown, combined with the high cost of transporting organic feed from the Midwest has caused 32 dairy farms in Vermont to close since Dec. 1. [NY Times] What do a group of Ohio convicts have in common with Michelle Obama? They both are growing their own food. Prisoners at a jail in Fremont help tend to about

  May 29, 2009

• Where Cheesemongers Go to Geek Out

  maeko.org​Jasper Hill is an upstanding member of the cheese snob's canon: Its Constant Bliss and Baylen Hazen Blue are staples at stores like Murray's, Blue Apron Foods, and Artisanal Cheese Center. Today, Slashfood reports on a recent tour to the Vermont dairy farm's cheese caves, led by former Murray's affineur Zoe Brickley. Among the fun facts it discloses: Some cheeses are brushed with lard during their aging process, making them not quite the vegetarian-friendly food some may have ima

  August 26, 2009

• Gay Marriage Fights Continue, Sparking Celebrity Nude

  ​As Vermont unites homosexual couples in matrimony for the first time -- celebrated by Ben & Jerry's with limited-edition Chubby Hubby to Hubby Hubby ice cream -- the fight for marriage equality continues elsewhere. In an attempt to keep gay marriage from claiming all of New England, Rhode Island Republican Governor Don Carcieri is planning to appear at a fundraiser for the Massachusetts Family Institute; local Democrats ask that he desist. The D.C. Catholic Archbishop is lining up the fa

  September 2, 2009

• Airlines Turn to 'Haute' Cuisine; Ben & Jerry's Celebrates Gay Marriage With 'Hubby Hubby'

  ​The remnants of a frog or toad were found in a Diet Pepsi can, according to the FDA. A Florida couple discovered a disintegrated blob at the bottom of the can when one of them gagged on it. [CNN] Airlines are revamping their on-board meal offerings, following years of cutbacks on free meals in coach. Food-sale programs never sold very well, apparently. [Wall Street Journal] A former Cafe des Artistes employee said that working there was "possibly the most hellish restaurant experience e

  September 3, 2009

• GHOST WORLD

  September 15, 2009

• The Blogroll Gazette: Rating the Fattest Cookbooks By the Pound; A 'Hipstavore' Wedding

  This week in food blogs... Eat Me Daily took a look at the price-per-pound ration of cookbooks and The Big Fat Duck Cookbook weighed in at 11.6 pounds for $157.50 or $13.58 per pound of book. Midtown Lunch got excited over one of its images being used in Polish Playboy as part of a piece on Taam Tov, the Uzbeki restaurant on the third floor of a 47th Street building. Eater got a sneak peak at the much-anticipated April Bloomfield-cheffed The Breslin in the Ace Hotel. Grub Street got the insi

  October 16, 2009

• Booze News: Dressing Up Cointreau; Try Good Cider

  ​ Serious bartenders -- the types who work at craft cocktail dens -- don't seem to just chat with their customers anymore. But Josh Sontag, who tends bar at Summit in the East Village, isn't above making small talk with patrons. [NY Times] Ever had a Kick in the Crotch, an Alien Urine Sample, George's Puke, a German Burrito? The recipes for such concoctions can be found in the latest iPhone cocktail apps. Top Shelf Drinks, Drinks and Cocktails, and Mixologist can now be downloaded. [MacW

  October 20, 2009

• Our 10 Best Cheeses

  ​ ​Is it a piece of marble or a blue cheese? And did it make the list of Our 10 Best Cheeses? Who doesn't love cheese? A friend says she administers a cheese test to potential boyfriends. If the guy doesn't crave the coagulated milk products of cows, sheep, goats, or water buffalo, it's no dice! (Why is there no such thing as pig's milk cheese? And what about llama cheese?)

  November 6, 2009

• I, Locavore: A First Look at Lucy's Whey in the Chelsea Market

  ​In line with locavoric principles, the cheese-eating public has shown a greater interest in cheeses produced in our part of the country, which means New York and New England. Of course, this is partly due to the efforts of Anne Saxelby at Saxelby Cheese, but ideas like this are infectious and develop their own momentum.

  November 23, 2009