01 | Autor: North to the South Shore
Duplicate Citians heading north to Lake Superior sooner face a vexing decision. It's at the crest of that hill right-minded outside Duluth, when the St. Louis River and Lake Higher-class suddenly -- thrillingly -- appear far below.
Carry on with through Duluth, and onward to the North Shore? Or hang a honourable, cross the vertigo-inducing Richard I. Bong Commemorative Bridge, zip through Superior and explore the South Shore?
As a basic Minnesotan, I know that I'm supposed to go weak in the knees at the basic mention of Split Rock Lighthouse and Gooseberry Falls. Truly to tell, I do. But here's the admission that's probably going to cost me my residency: I have a warm spot for the lake's lower lip. Yeah, the part that's in -- puff -- Wisconsin .
One reason is familiarity; after years of renting a vacation homestead on Madeline Island, I've developed an intense affection for the division's quiet beauty. But I've also come to cherish the Bayfield-Washburn-Apostle Islands-Ashland give of the South Shore as a one-of-a-kind food destination. Is there another Midwestern flight that so vigorously celebrates its small cache of native ingredients?
"People all over are jumping on the district-foods bandwagon, but it's been done here for years," said Mary Dougherty, co-proprietor of Good Thyme in Washburn. "When you're isolated the way we are, you've got to work out b decipher out how to work with what you've got."
Unwrapping the Great Fairfield Candy Mystery
I physical next door to the author Tony Abbott. He writes books for children, like the series "The Secrets of Droon" and novels like "Kringle," "Firegirl" and "The Postcard." Aside from being a fertile writer, he's also a great neighbor and has a wonderful family. They often invite us over for drinks and prate, and we try to reciprocate, although with a four-year-old I'm usually not organized enough to find the martini shaker.
At one of our new cocktail hours, we were discussing my blog. I've been writing Bon-bons Yum Yum, (www.candyyumyum.net) a candy-themed blog, for six years. At some aspect in the conversation, Tony mentioned a candy shop that second-hand to be run out of someone's home in Fairfield in the 1970s. My ears perked up. A sweets shop? In Fairfield? Out of someone's home? I needed to know more.
The gossip quickly twisted this way and that, as talk often does when there are drinks to be poured, puppies to woo and preschoolers to rein in. I didn't get a chance to ask Tony for the details, except he did make mention of that the woman's name was Mrs. Barski.
Fast forward to a few weeks later and on Facebook (where else?), I noticed some posts about Mrs. Barksi's on a after called "Growin' Up in Fairfield County in the 70s." Julie Haffeman Boselli kicked off the chit-chat by simply writing, "Barski's 'Candy Shop' Valley Technique." A handful of people responded with their own comments.
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