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Wait, what? Wheat?
When most people think of America’s wheat fields, they picture those amber waves of grain in the midwest. Turns out, the birthplace of American wheat was in Natural North Florida, where it is still grown at Barnhart’s wheat farm in Monticello. Monticello historians David Ward and Jack Carswell discovered that the first wheat ever planted …
Get a Sweet Taste of New Orleans at Big Easy Snowballs
Tallahassee’s dining scene is known for farm-fresh produce and time-honored spots where power brokers dine. But it’s also one of the only places outside of the Big Easy where you can enjoy an authentic New Orleans snowball. Take what you know about snow cones and toss it out: A snowball is a super-fine shaved ice …
Day 4, the last day of the Visit Natural North Florida Press Tour–Leon County
After wrangling all the writers into the van at the Governor’s Inn in Tallahassee, we headed over to Another Broken Egg, a breakfast joint over on Capital Circle, east of town. While part of a chain of ‘eggy’ restaurants, the food was excellent and the portions huge. Just what we needed after 3 solid days …
June 2011 Travel Writers Press Trip, Day 3, Jefferson and Leon Counties, FL
Since this is a ‘culinary’ tour, we began the day in Monticello with great breakfasts at the John Denham House and the Avera-Clarke House. I think most of the crew is getting tired of eating gourmet food, but are still looking forward to the food in the Tallahassee area. We only had one tour in …