Before you can cook something, you need the tools to do it. Vermont Kitchen Supply has one of the most comprehensive selections of high-quality and actually useful cooking gear that I have found in my travels.

This is not one of those kitchen stores full of expensive versions of things you already own and silly implements of no real use to the serious cook; they fill their shelves with useful products of excelent quality. I have bought things there that I could not find closer to home - and Manchester VT is a very long way from Plymouth, MA!

Manchester is a great town for shopping of all sorts. It's about half an hour north of Bennington by scenic Route 7a, shorter if you take Route 7.