One of my favorite Christmastime tales is Truman Capote’s short story, “A Christmas Memory.” I dare you to read it without crying. If you have a soft spot for dogs, then I double-dare you. In it, a boy named Buddy, his childlike…
After Glen Shorley retired from the financial industry through The Vanguard Group, Inc., he embraced his love of coffee and wanting to give back abroad. Glen officially opened Cave Bird Coffee and Cave Bird Cup of Life in 2010, but behind-the-scenes…
— A recipe for fried apple ring pancakes using either pancake mix or a from-scratch pancake recipe. — A few years ago, my husband and I were working Weaver’s Orchard’s booth at the Hay Creek Apple Festival. We enjoyed talking…
We should all make our own pie crusts this Thanksgiving. I say this as a person who has been known to hurl unsuccessful homemade pie dough into the trash can in frustration and run to the store for refrigerated pre-made pie dough. Learning to…
One of my most embarrassing middle school memories involves a pumpkin. My mother had rounded up our family for a fun fall jaunt over to a local farm stand to pick out pumpkins for carving or painting. When we arrived, pumpkins…
Bittersweet and rose hips grew wild alongside the driveway of my childhood home. Sometimes, in high school, I would clip some and use it to decorate my bedroom. Imagine that. Fall decor, there for the taking. Having lived in urban or…
Family has long been a touchstone for chef J. Scott Martino of Lancaster-based Cortazzo Foods. When he left his full time job as a chef at The Restaurant at Donecker’s and devoted himself to making pasta sauce, he used his grandmother Marianina Cortazzo’s…
Nothing says fall better than acorn squash. All right, that’s silly, because acorn squashes can’t talk. Also, if food COULD talk, then acorn squashes would get an argument from apples in the fall. (Don’t even get me started on pumpkins.)…
Since opening in the summer of 2015, Hidden River Brewing Company in Douglassville has been sourcing fruit from Weaver’s Orchard for its unique and never-quite-repeated selections of beer. And if you’re wondering about the story behind the business name—a nice…
Warm sunny days here in PA could lull us into thinking summer will stay forever, if not for the increasingly crisp mornings and the crunchy leaves coating my grass. Our fall clothing may still be in the storage bins, but…