Category Archives: Food Tales

Belle Isle Cookery School: Northern Ireland

Belle Isle Castle
Belle Isle Castle

 A cookery school at a castle?  Sounds to me like the most idyllic place to whip up your culinary skills. 

Belle Isle Estate sits on 470-acres in County Fermangh in Northern Ireland. The lakeside hamlet of rolling hills, dense woodland and lowland fields functions with a busy working farm, manor house, self-catering cottages and cookery school. 

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My, My – Chattanooga Moon Pies

Moon Pies, those yummy yet inexpensive graham cracker and marshmallow sandwiches covered in chocolate, shine from Chattanooga, Tennessee. They are as much as Southern staple a RC Cola, grits, and fried chicken. According to Tory Johnson, VP of Marketing, the factory produces a million a day!

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Nancy Biehn: Artisan Chocolatier

 

Nancy Biehn
Nancy Biehn

 Watching Nancy Biehn make chocolates is a divine way to spend an hour. Tasting her candy is double divine.  I had the great pleasure to do both while visiting Ann Arbor, Michigan, a city renown to foodies. Sweet Gem Confections, Nancy’s company, makes its home within Morgan and York, a fine wine and specialty foods store.

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