Cyrus Guernsey Pringle left this mortal coil in 1911. His namesake, a Vermont-grown bread from Red Hen Baking Co., began shipping to stores and restaurants this October 23. The “Cyrus Pringle” honors the botanist and wheat breeder from Charlotte with a product baked from grains grown in that same town by Tom Kenyon of Aurora Farms. ... Read more

After 21 years of contention, the Jack Daniel’s World Championship Invitational Barbecue has its first East Coast victor. The team doesn’t hail from North Carolina or even from Lynchburg, Tenn., where the competition is held. Nope — Team I Que is based in Hopkinton, Mass.... Read more

Fans of suburban pub grub won’t have to wait long for a new place to watch the game and munch. The South Burlington space recently vacated by Hooters will open in early November as the Vermont Sports Grill.... Read more

The historic Church Street building housing Leunig’s Bistro is about to get a modern touch. According to owner Robert Fuller, later this year or early in 2010, Building Energy of Williston will install six rows of eight solar panels each on the roof.... Read more

Nobody does Halloween better than Mexico. Dia de los Muertos sprang up as a combination of the Catholic All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day with Aztec traditions that make light of death while celebrating the lives of fallen loved ones. The celebration, which spans the first two days of November, involves assembling shrines (or ofrendas) full of pictures of the departed along with some of their favorite things in life, such as candy or flowers. An arrangement of marigolds and sugar skulls, called calaveras or calaveritos, completes the picture.... Read more

Rooney’s Café and Deli on College Street has closed. Requests for more information were not returned by press time.

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Looks like giant Hansen Beverage Company is feeling the effects of its falling out with Vermont’s tiny Rock Art Brewery over the use of the term “Vermonster.”... Read more

Tall, bearded Burlington resident Andrew Johnson has held down plenty of cooking jobs — “I’ve worked in a lot of restaurants, from grease traps to fine dining,” he notes. But his current gig requires that he play a new role: a “girl.”... Read more

Sometimes those who own the most cookbooks use them the least — because they’re daunted by all those pages of possibilities. It was a problem part-time Wilmington resident Jane Kelly faced every time she wanted to whip up a stew or bake a cake. “I’ve got a lot of cookbooks, about 700, and lots of other food reference books as well,” she says. “I never had the time to look through and find recipes.”... Read more

Just six months ago, most Burlingtonians had never heard of a “gastropub.” Now the town is slated to get another one next spring — in the Bank Street former home of the downtown McDonald’s, vacant since the summer of 2007.... Read more

Last week, we reported that Hansen Beverage Company, maker of Monster energy drinks, sent a cease and desist order to Matt Nadeau, owner of Rock Art Brewery. Why was the giant West Coast biz picking on a little guy in Vermont? Its reps claim the name of his “Vermonster” barley wine would “undoubtedly create a likelihood of confusion” among customers.... Read more