{"id":1625,"date":"2013-08-20T08:22:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T13:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hillaryproctor.com\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2013-08-20T08:22:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T13:22:22","slug":"travel-eats-a-day-trip-to-michigans-harbor-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/20\/travel-eats-a-day-trip-to-michigans-harbor-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Eats: A day trip to Michigan’s Harbor Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

Travel Eats documents my food adventures outside of Chicago.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Picking<\/a>
Picking our own peaches at Crane Orchard in Fennville<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Spending a gorgeous Saturday in southwest Michigan does present convincing evidence that the state is as magical as depicted in the “Pure Michigan” commercials, especially when it comes to food. From a picnic by the water in Saugatuck to picking peaches and apples in South Haven and tasting cider in Fennville, we fit in as many delicious summer activities as we could. I was impressed by the quality of everything we tried: excellent bottled cold brew coffee, mellow pear and blueberry fruit wines that would make excellent pairings, five nuanced styles of the Virtue Cider that’s already beloved in Chicago, and a lovely farm-to-table meal at Salt of the Earth, where I also drank the best lemonade I’ve had all summer (white whiskey, grilled lemon, and thyme add up to greatness). <\/p>\n

\"Uncommon<\/a>
Uncommon Coffee Roasters’ bottled cold brew coffee in Saugatuck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Nebraska<\/a>
Nebraska wrap from Boardwalk Deli in Saugatuck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Tasting<\/a>
Tasting fruit wines at McIntosh Wine Cellars in South Haven<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Where<\/a>
Where cider is made at Virtue Farms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The Virtue Cider sign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Grilled<\/a>
Grilled lemonade with Journeyman white whiskey, lemon sour, thyme, and soda at Salt of the Earth in Fennville<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Feta<\/a>
Feta and herb pizza at Salt of the Earth in Fennvile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Eating<\/a>
Eating apple pie from Crane’s Pie Pantry by moonlight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The details:<\/strong> Uncommon Coffee Roasters<\/a>, 127 Hoffman St., Saugatuck; Boardwalk Deli<\/a>, 311 Water St., Saugatuck; McIntosh Wine Cellars<\/a>, 6431 107th Ave., South Haven; Virtue Farms<\/a>, 2170 62nd St. (122nd Ave.), Fennville; Crane’s Pie Pantry<\/a>, 6054 124th Ave. (M-89), Fennville; Salt of the Earth<\/a>, 144 E Main St., Fennville.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Travel Eats documents my food adventures outside of Chicago. Spending a gorgeous Saturday in southwest Michigan does present convincing evidence that the state is as magical as depicted in the “Pure Michigan” commercials, especially when it comes to food. From a picnic by the water in Saugatuck to picking peaches and apples in South Haven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[179,357,475,508,594,739,757,1015,1026,1065,1069,1101,1183,1197],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-eats","tag-boardwalk-deli","tag-cranes-pie-pantry","tag-fennville","tag-foodie-vacation","tag-harbor-country","tag-mcintosh-wine-cellars","tag-michigan","tag-salt-of-the-earth","tag-saugatuck","tag-south-haven","tag-southwest-michigan","tag-summer-day-trip","tag-uncommon-coffee-roasters","tag-virtue-cider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}