The day after Christmas in 2015, Denton and Lisa Conner sat down with their kids and had an important discussion. Denton is a small business consultant, and when the owners of a beverage company called Reading Draft and Universal Carbonics…
A new and sip-worthy vendor at Taste of Weaver’s this year on Saturday, June 3 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. is Pure Wild Tea based outside of Bernville at the northernwestern edge of Berks County. They will be providing…
When Jeremiah and Katelyn Kozlowski of Green Kamikozees headed to the 2011 Chile Pepper Food Festival in their native Bowers, PA with 700 jars of spicy, pickled green tomatoes, all they knew was that they had done a lot of…
Renewal Kombucha, brewed in Lititz, Lancaster County, is gaining more and more popularity with customers at Weaver’s Orchard. For those whose eyebrows twist a bit as the word “kombucha” is said, Jeremy Sayer, the owner and head brewer of Renewal Kombucha,…
Canada. Vermont. New York. If someone says “maple syrup,” these are the places that come to mind, right? Surely not Pennsylvania? After talking with Linda Neal, Sugar House Manager for Patterson Farms in Sabinsville, PA—roughly ten miles from the New…
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…
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…
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” says the writer Annie Dillard. And, since it’s back-to-school time, many parents are spending portions of their days making sandwiches. Whether peanut butter and jelly, egg salad,…
On July 19, Brandon Hertzler and Rachel VanDuzer led a cooking class on cooking with mushrooms and Conebella Farm Cheese. Here are their recipes.
Sheri Karan of York describes herself as a “do-it-yourself” kind of person. For years, she has not only made her own bread, but also used a flour mill to grind grain into flour for that bread. She likes to grind things.…