Until my adulthood, I always just thought of rum as something fictional pirates sang about in cartoons. Looking into it now, I know how nuanced the flavor profiles can be for the spirit, which is distilled from sugar cane syrup or juice or from molasses, which is what is leftover when you process sugar cane. …
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I got a bit overzealous about fresh peaches back in June. It was hot. It felt fully like summer, and when I saw a bag of them at the grocery store, I snapped them up. And they were, well, fine. I mean, they were juicy and fresh, but they lacked a lot of flavor. It …
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If you didn’t know, we recently celebrated the first-ever “Local News Day” on April 9. The effort to observe local journalists around the country came from a push in Montana. In Newton, we had a small, but mighty, group of community members who stood outside our office with signs, touting the importance of having a …
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