Tom Gilbert Eggs from Black Dirt Farm often come with unexpected side dishes: printed notes nestled between the ungraded brown eggs and the cardboard carton. In the fall, those messages showcased the Merriam-Webster definitions of democracy and white supremacy to show that the two are mutually exclusive. This winter, pink inserts cite the figure that one in three Vermont women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime, along with contact information for shelters. If the fridge and breakfast table seem like unconventional places for sparking discussions of human rights, Black Dirt Farm owner Tom Gilbert is not worried. We are intentionally provoking a conversation, and we re open to feedback, he said during a recent tour of his Stannard farm.
Seven Days Rosemary-sea salt bagel with scallion cream cheese I never thought I’d call a New York City bagel-eater deprived, but that’s the conclusion I’ve come to after reading the top bagel picks of the
New York Times food editors. Their bagel preferences were posted January 23 on @nytcooking, the newspaper’s food Instagram page. The culinary pros in the bagel capital of the world announced choices like bacon, egg and cheese on toasted cinnamon; whole wheat everything with tofu veggie cream cheese; and egg everything with cream cheese and bacon.
WTF?! No one picked a rosemary-sea salt bagel, an outstanding addition to a food landscape that s bereft of nothing. For a bagel traditionalist like me with a half-century preference for poppy and sesame, a variety that knocks them out of the toaster is front-page news. Not a glossy on the gram.
“I sing their names . . .,” writes Kansas City poet Glenn North.
His words are one of several contemporary voices joined in a new, 44-page book that collects the more than 70 biographies that the Kansas City Black History Project team has researched and shared with the Kansas City community since 2010.
“I sing of… Langston and Parker, Ms. Bluford and Mary Lou, Old Buck, Leon Jordan, Horace and Bruce . . .”
Every year, the project told the stories behind seven or eight of the names hidden by time. It gathered them in booklets and posters that were given to schools, libraries and other public spaces used by teachers, librarians, mentors and parents to raise up a neglected history.
Otter East Bakery & Deli The village of East Middlebury has a new breakfast and lunch destination, and it s easy to spot:
Otter East Bakery & Deli is painted sky blue, with its namesake aquatic mammal grinning over the entrance. The bakery and deli opened on February 17 at 51 Ossie Road. It s the second local business for owner
Ned Horton, who purchased
Sarah and
Ben Wood, in January 2020. Otter East is located in the former Downhome Deli & Market building, which Horton purchased in March 2020 and planned to use as additional production space for his bakery. The future was pretty cloudy, but I thought it would give us some options and more elbow room, he said.
UPDATE posted Feb. 25 3:45 p.m.Â
ARCADIA, La. The deadly shooting early Sunday of a man who tried to break into an occupied big rig will be turned over to the Bienville Parish district attorney for review, Sheriff John Ballance said Thursday.Â
Sheriff s investigators also have learned Jonathan Raney, the man who was shot to death, had been dropped off at the truck stop about a half-hour before by a Webster Parish sheriff s deputy.Â
Sheriff Jason Parker confirmed for KTBS that one of his deputies picked up Raney at his request and gave him a ride.
Raney called the sheriff s office and said his truck was broke down, and he asked for a ride to the parish line, Parker said.Â