THE FLY CREEK CIDER MILL COOKBOOK: More than 100 Delicious Apple Recipes

Brenda Palmer Michaels, Bill Michaels

Agate
May 17, 2016
$22.95/Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-1572841949

Brenda Palmer Michaels is president and co-owner of the Fly Creek Cider Mill and Orchard. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design and holds a BFA with honors from Pratt Institute. She received the WISE (Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship) Award, among many others.

Bill Michaels is the co-owner of the Fly Creek Cider Mill and Orchard. He took over the Mill with his wife, Brenda, in 1999. He has served as Councilman on the Town Board of Cooperstown, NY, his hometown community. He has won numerous awards as an entrepreneur and small business owner.

Released to commemorate the 160th anniversary of the Fly Creek Cider Mill and Orchard, this cookbook captures the history of this celebrated mill through stories, photographs, and more than 100 apple- and cider-based recipes.

First opened in the mid-1800s, Fly Creek is one of New York State’s oldest working mills. Owned by authors Brenda and Bill Michaels, the mill sits on the picturesque banks of Fly Creek near historic Cooperstown and attracts more than 175,000 visitors a year.

This region is becoming a mecca of agritourism, and people visit to the flavors of Central New York through farm-direct products such as apple salsas and butters, apple cider doughnuts, apple pies and breads, and of course, sweet apple cider. THE FLY CREEK CIDER MILL COOKBOOK will help readers recreate these heritage recipes—many of them from the kitchens of mill staff, family, and friends—in their own homes.

This book will appeal not only to home cooks in search of some nostalgic goodness, but also those interested in the history of a resilient American enterprise and the farm-to-table food movement.