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Cheese
7 TOP 10 DRINKS
Visitors will find world-class
farmstead cheeses all across New
England. Small dairies make every-
thing from fresh goat’s milk chevre
to aged, pungent blues. Somewhat
larger Vermont cheese companies
also produce superb American
cheddar and Colby cheeses.
Blueberries
8
Whether you prefer the light
blueberry accent of a muffin or the
supreme intensity of a blueberry pie, Green Mountain coffee
there’s no substitute for the tiny 1 Moxie
“wild” lowbush blueberry. Most wild Invented in 1876 by medical doctor
blueberries are harvested in Maine Augustin Thompson, this soft drink
from late July through August, but with an appropriately medicinal
they freeze well, so blueberry baked aftertaste is now the official beverage
treats are available all year. of the state of Maine.
2 Apple Cider
Freshly pressed and unfiltered apple
juice is widely available in the fall.
3 Sam Adams Lager
The flagship brew of the Boston Beer
Company launched the national craft
beer revolution.
4 Del’s Lemonade
A thirst-quenching Rhode Island
favorite, this contains only lemon
juice, sugar, and shaved ice.
5 Poland Spring Water
This brand of bottled water originating
in a former Maine spa town is now
distributed widely in New England.
Tray of blueberry muffins 6 Coffee Milk
Rhode Island’s official state drink
Stone-ground Cornmeal
9 is created by stirring coffee syrup
into milk.
Order a jonnycake – a sweet
cornmeal pancake cooked on a 7 Sparkling Wines from Westport
griddle – at any Rhode Island diner, Rivers Winery
and you’ll be enjoying a culinary Estate-grown chardonnay and pinot
tradition going back to the region’s noir grapes are used to make New
first European colonists and the England’s best bubbly.
Native Americans before them. 8 Green Mountain Coffee
The gourmet coffee roaster’s blends
Heirloom Apples
0 are sold throughout the region.
Look for orchard farm stands
selling apples in the fall. Many his- 9 Lincoln Peak Vineyards Marquette
The signature red wine of this Vermont
toric apple varieties can be traced winery demonstrates the triumph of
to their New England birthplace by artful winemaking over harsh climate.
name (Roxbury Russet, Westfield- 10 Frappe
Seek-No-Further). Preservation Pronounced “frap,” this thick milkshake
efforts begun in the 1980s have includes ice cream and syrup in true
borne fruit in the widespread avail- New England style.
ability of dozens of historic varieties.

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