When colorful livestock, dancing tractors, diving dogs, woodcarvers, a Dixie Band and racing pigs are part of a grand assembly, it can only mean the county fair is in town. Driving up to Rhinebeck, NY for the annual Dutchess County Fair, we couldn't have asked for better weather to enjoy this American tradition....
Tea for two...
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Sonya M Fitzmaurice
- Friday, August 09, 2013
Our travels continue to take us along the high tea road! And I have so much more to share with you! Going with the flow, allow me to pour part two of Summer Sips - a first hand look at the 'Downton Abbey' experience of taking the ritual of afternoon tea at some...
Taste of summer...
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Sonya M Fitzmaurice
- Friday, August 09, 2013
Grandma loved macaroons. I remember the first time I picked up one of her sticky toasted confections. The smell was exotic and sweet as I took a big nibble. The texture was unlike anything I ever had before, and I gobbled the whole thing in a couple of bites. That was it, I...