After Montpelier we headed over to Cabot to take a tour of the Cheese Factory. We ate a lot of samples, bought three kinds of cheddar (garlic herb, chili lime, and Tuscan) and a cheese board in the shape of the state of Vermont (or New Hampshire, if you flip it over), and a t-shirt with a cartoon beaver that says "dam it". I also picked up some locally made soap.
The factory tour was interesting and informative (for food geeks like us, anyway), and the girl who served as our guide was the daughter of a chemist in the quality control lab. She was hilarious. He looked like Donald Pleasence in Halloween. Everybody there seemed to really enjoy their jobs. The woman in the gift shop was particularly friendly and informative.
After that we headed back into Burlington (lots of driving, we did, but we were trying to get a feel for the place). We went to the lakefront and walked around, and when we were hungry enough we had dinner at The American Flatbread Company. It was packed, of course, but we had a beer while we waited for our table (almost every place we went carried the b.h.'s favorite NA beer, which was a huge bonus) and the time went very quickly. We sat very close to the big wood-fired stove, so we watched all of the pizzas being made. The menu had only two things, really, salad and flatbread pizza, but the ingredients were all fresh and mostly local and everything was very tasty. The whole dining experience took less time than we had waited for our table. That would definitely be a great place to work.
Musically, the whole place was awful. There was crappy jam band music blaring from speakers virtually everywhere we went. This was something we expected, of course, but it didn't make it any easier.
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