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FOOD & DRINK
Specialty grocers, butcher shops, markets and health-food stores are all good sources for what you need: free-range eggs, fresh-baked goods, specialty roasted coffees, scrapple or sausage, jams and jellies.
Beyond coffee, celebrate early with a Bloody Mary or screwdriver using vodka made by one of several Delaware and Pennsylvania craft distilleries. It also might be fun to take a few of hours refreshing your pandemic-depleted wine inventory for 2022. In Delaware, locally owned wine stores offer a friendly vibe and a specialty approach to what they stock. Think of them as your personal sommeliers.
And since New Year’s Eve falls on a Friday, you can visit one of the dozen or so wineries in the Brandywine Valley region. Most will be open after noon for tastings and an update on the 2021 harvest—and they should have the first wines from the 2020 vintage ready for purchase. In addition to blends, cabernet franc and merlot grapes grow well locally for the reds, as do chardonnay, sauvignon blanc and chardonel for the whites.
Since New Year’s Eve falls on a Friday, you can visit one of the dozen or so wineries in the Brandywine Valley region. Most
will be open after noon for tastings and an update on the 2021 harvest—and they should have the first wines from the 2020 vintage ready for purchase.
If your bedtime comes before the midnight hour, use some of those new bottles you’ve purchased for a late-afternoon wine-and-cheese party for friends and neighbors. Great local cheeses from Birchrun Hills and Shellbark Hollow are carried at select stores in the region. For an unequaled selection of international cheeses, check out Janssen’s in Greenville and Country Butcher in Kennett Square.
At Janssen’s, cheese monger Alberto Martinez has over 100 different varieties. A personal recommendation: a small round of Stilton goes beautifully with a vintage port. The English had a utensil for everything, and a Stilton spoon will allow you to mine the blue cheese from the top of the round.
Another silver lining of the pandemic: Local restaurants have upped their takeout game, with presentations continued on page 84
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