ahh, singleton's

I drove up to Killington, Vermont last night to pick up all my ski gear for the big trip to Chile tomorrow. On my way back home I made a detour to Proctorsville to buy several sticks of smoked pepperoni at Singleton's Store. I used to think of pepperoni as vile greasy heartburn inducing discs of death on top of pizza with plastic cheese topping. Singleton's pepperoni changed all that; it's spicy, firm, and very smoky; the fragrance lingering on your fingers long after you've sworn you won't have another piece. It's lovely with cheese, and though I haven't tried it with pizza, I'm sure that it would be delicious.



Though there is an impressive array of hard-to-find foods, it's really all about the meat department. The bacon is a must, and we get bags of bacon ends in the fall and winter for lentil soup and baked beans. The teriyaki jerky is an excellent snack, or in some cases dinner - no matter how many packages we'd buy, they'd never make it back to the house.



They have a neat outdoor clothing section with merino wool jackets from Ibex - I had to get one, along with the pepperoni sticks; the cashier and I had a good laugh when I asked her to put the jacket in a separate bag.