Vermont Shortbread Company at the Shelburne Farms Fine Wine and Food Show

As I mentioned in our September newsletter, Vermont Shortbread Company hosted a shortbread table at the annual Shelburne Farms Fine Wine and Food Show. This show is an annual fundraiser for the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts and Vermont Shortbread Company has been a proud participant for 7 years. It was an amazing early fall day. My table was strategically located in the historic coach barn right near a doorway leading to the courtyard where the auctions and roving musicians just outside the door. Even Governor Jim Douglas made an appearance, though I did not manage to lure him to the Vermont Shortbread table. Maybe next year!

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I recruited some BNI friends to help me. Brenda Kerr from Katahdin Spirit Structural Health in Fairfax handed out bite sized shortbread morsels to eager festival goers while Tim Cray of Delight Full Time Catering Services in St. Albans enticed many to sign up for the Short Bites e-zine and set up a beautiful display for me. We all had a great time schmoozing, eating, and people watching.

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Would you look at this perfect shortbread? Tim thought the red cloth napkin would highlight its beautiful baked-in goodness and he was right. We set up several 8” shortbread rounds on a tiered pedestal and chopped up 25 more rounds into small pieces in pretty baskets for festival participants to taste as they passed by our table. I think we may have had to cut up this golden beauty toward the end of the festival because we couldn’t keep up with the demand!

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Hooligans or future product models? I know these guys and hooligans they’re not, though it’s always fun to tease my many friends who show up at the food and wine festival. They enjoyed the free wine and the nifty little plates with the notch for their wine glasses (so they can hold their plate and glass with one hand and leave the other hand free to grab more shortbread!). Often festival goers come back two, three, four times to my table and the smart ones know that at the end of the festival, I sometimes give away free shortbread so I don’t have to haul it back to my car.

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