Vermont
Leunig’s Le Marché Café Brings Pastries and Picnic Staples to Shelburne
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Is there something extra dazzling than a pastry case filled with fruit-topped tarts, chocolate-coated muffins and multicolored macarons?
Whereas many forego such sweets within the identify of New Yr’s resolutions, the Seven Days meals workforce continues its January custom of celebrating them. We welcomed 2021 with a narrative on doughnuts and 2022 with one on croissants and kouign amanns. This yr, we’re dedicating an entire month’s value of tales to bakeries.
To kick issues off, I headed to Shelburne’s latest French café and bakery: Leunig’s Le Marché Café. Opened in December within the former Harrington’s of Vermont house at 5597 Shelburne Highway, Le Marché has already introduced a little bit of je ne sais quoi to city — together with favorites from Burlington’s Leunig’s Bistro & Café and Petit Bijou kiosk.
Leunig’s chef-owner, Donnell Collins, lives in Shelburne and designed the café and bakery to be the sort of place she and her household needed on the town: someplace they may go for a takeout sandwich or a field of pastries. Since opening, Collins has been shocked by the quantity of people that wish to sit and have lunch.
“I do not know what I used to be considering at first,” Collins mentioned with fun.
The tables have been full after I went in round lunchtime on a weekday, with prospects having fun with salade Niçoise and jambon-beurre sandwiches fantastically ready by chef Amy Langford and her workforce. Langford has labored with Collins at Leunig’s for greater than 20 years, Collins mentioned, and the pair dreamed up the Shelburne house collectively.
“The Petit Bijou kiosk was actually the inspiration,” Collins mentioned. However the Church Avenue kiosk is tiny, and the Leunig’s kitchen — the place the pastries have been produced till now — is just too busy. At 3,000 sq. ft, Le Marché has loads of room and can quickly take over many of the baking for Petit Bijou. It’s going to additionally serve fashionable road meals snacks and contemporary sandwiches, soups and salads from the kiosk menu.
Entrance-of-house supervisor Conrad Osborne took my order for a turkey BLT ($14) and an Anjou pear soften ($12) — made with native chèvre, caramelized onions, child arugula and chai-infused honey from Ariel’s Honey Infusions on wheat bread. As I waited for my takeout order, the pastry case caught my eye; I added a fragile fruit tart ($6.50) and a bulging cinnamon roll ($4).
Pastry chef Rachel Cemprola began her pastry profession 11 years in the past at South Burlington’s Klinger’s Bread. She then baked in Colorado, Florida, Texas and Saratoga Springs, N.Y., earlier than “coming full circle” and returning to Vermont when her husband bought a job at Beta Applied sciences, she mentioned.
“Leunig’s has an ideal status, so I threw my résumé into the ring,” Cemprola mentioned. “Donnell has actually allowed me to take the reins.”
Collins shared with Cemprola inspiration from her journeys to France however has in any other case given the pastry chef and her workforce freedom to develop their very own intensive lineup of croissants, kouign amanns, scones, focaccia, almond crunch bars, tarts and gâteaux.
Cemprola’s pastry program honors the Champlain Valley, she defined, utilizing native substances to “emulate the scents, flavors and colours of Vermont’s seasons.” A lot of Le Marché’s creations are based mostly on native mountains, together with the maple-inflected Mt. Mansfield Tart — a tackle the standard Mont Blanc tart, named for the very best mountain on the French-Italian border. To date, the most well-liked is the chocolaty Mt. Philo Cake, Cemprola mentioned.
“Mount Philo is correct down the street from us, and anybody who’s carried out that hike is aware of it is just about steps all the best way to the highest,” Cemprola mentioned. The meringue topping on the cake mimics these wooden and stone stairs.
Subsequent time, I will purchase treats for a Mount Philo picnic.
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Vermont
Woman charged with trying to smuggle $40K worth of turtles across Vermont lake to Quebec | CBC News
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A woman from China has been arrested at a Vermont lake bordering Quebec for trying to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, into Canada by kayak, according to border patrol agents.
Wan Yee Ng was arrested on the morning of June 28 at an Airbnb in Canaan, Vt., as she was about to get into an inflatable kayak with a duffle bag on Lake Wallace, according to an agent’s affidavit filed in U.S. federal court. United States Customs and Border Protection agents had been notified by Royal Canadian Mounted Police that two other people, including a man who was believed to be her husband, had started to paddle an inflatable watercraft from the Canadian side of the lake toward the United States, according to an agent’s affidavit.
The agents searched her heavy duffle bag and found 29 live eastern box turtles individually wrapped in socks, the affidavit states. Eastern box turtles are known to be sold on the Chinese black market for about $1,400 each, according to the affidavit.
Ng is charged with attempting to export the turtles from the U.S., in violation of the Endangered Species Act. A federal judge on Friday ordered that she remain detained. The federal public defender’s office, which is representing her, declined to comment.
Border patrol agents first spotted Ng at the Airbnb rental in May when they noticed a vehicle with Ontario plates travelling on a Vermont road in Canaan in an area used by smugglers, they said. Lake Wallace has been used for human and narcotic smuggling, the affidavit states. The vehicle had entered the U.S. in Alburgh, Vt., agents said.
Ng was admitted to the United States in May on a visitor visa with an intended destination of Fort Lee, N.J., the affidavit states. Border patrol agents learned on June 18 that she had again entered the U.S. in Buffalo in a vehicle with a Quebec plate and was expected to arrive at the same Airbnb on Lake Wallace in Vermont on June 25, the affidavit states. They then started to surveil the property.
Vermont
The Magnificent 7: Must See, Must Do, July 3-9
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Marching Orders
Thursday 4
The town of Warren steps lively at its singular 4th of July Parade and Festivities. The procession of quirky floats and merry musicians is followed by hot dogs, a street dance and a unique get-to-know-your-neighbors scheme: Pay $1 for a numbered “Buddy Badge,” then find the other person in the crowd with the same number and you’ll both win a prize.
Truth to Power
Friday 5
Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh marks Independence Day with its annual Reading Frederick Douglass event. Audience members take part by reading portions of the abolitionist, orator and statesman’s famous address “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Douglass first gave the powerful speech on July 5, 1852, as the keynote at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Come Together
Saturday 6
Bondeko bring a multicultural mélange to the Next Stage Arts Bandwagon Summer Series in Putney. The musicians in the Portland, Maine-based outfit span generations and originally hail from Albania, Guinea, Paris and Austin, Texas, creating a sound that’s an unlikely — and unforgettable — collaboration.
Into the Woods
Saturday 6
Vermont Humanities marks two anniversaries — its own 50th and the 100th of Vermont State Parks — with its Words in the Woods series. In the second of five gatherings, listeners soak in the natural beauty at Kill Kare State Park in St. Albans as spoken word poet Ellen “LN” Bethea (pictured) shares her work. Stay and enjoy the day at the park afterward: Entrance fees are covered for participants.
Swan Song
Sunday 7
The Rochester Chamber Music Society salutes one of its own at the Federated Church of Rochester when pianist Cynthia Huard plays her final concert, a coda to her 30 years as the group’s artistic director. She’s joined by cellist Ani Kalayjian and violinists Adda Kridler and Mary Rowell in a bittersweet program that includes works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Gabriel Fauré and native Vermonter Nico Muhly.
Fête the Farm
Wednesday 10
Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont hosts a Pizza Social at Miller Farm in Vernon, part of a summerlong series highlighting historic farms and hardworking farmers around the state. Foodies enjoy wood-fired pizza and soft-serve ice cream made from Miller Farm milk before a hayride and farm tour. Catch upcoming installments of the series in Middletown Springs, Shoreham, Johnson, East Hardwick and North Thetford.
Paint the Town
Ongoing
If you missed last summer’s attendance-record-breaking exhibitions of “For the Love of Vermont: The Lyman Orton Collection,” here’s another chance. The Vermont Historical Society presents a reprise showing at the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. The selection of 20th-century works by Vermont artists is a love letter to the Green Mountain State.
Vermont
Health officials warn of possible measles exposure in Upper Valley
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State health officials are investigating a possible measles exposure in the Upper Valley.
Vermont and New Hampshire health officials say there are currently no confirmed cases of the measles in either state.
But New Hampshire’s public health division is looking into a report of an international traveler contracting measles shortly after visiting the town of Hanover.
Officials say the traveler could have been potentially infectious while in various public places June 20-22, including Dartmouth College’s campus. The list of locations released by the health department is below:
- June 20-22: Dartmouth College campus, Hanover
- June 20-22: The Hanover Inn, 2 E Wheelock St., Hanover
- June 20, 3 p.m.: Hanover Scoops, 57 S Main St., Hanover
- June 20-22: Lou’s Restaurant and Bakery, 30 S Main St., Hanover (one meal, unknown date and time)
- June 22: Dartmouth Coach Bus from Hanover to Boston Logan Airport (unknown time)
For people who were in the area on those days, and who aren’t vaccinated or haven’t previously had the measles, officials recommend monitoring for symptoms.
Those include high fever, cough, runny nose, and watery eyes several days before developing a body rash.
Officials ask that people who do feel sick to call their provider before getting treatment to help prevent possible spread of the virus.
Experts say the measles is a preventable disease, and that the vaccine for it is safe and effective.
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