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Article: EATS: Just ducky! The other Village Inn
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- Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
- Article date:
- May 27, 2007
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In the large extended family I married into, Belgrade Lakes
Village Inn is referred to, simply, as "The Duck Place."
"Where shall we go to celebrate?" my soon-to-be-father-in-law once
asked my soon-to-be-fiancee, for a special occasion I can no longer
recall. "The Duck Place?"
"Of course, we have to take her to The Duck Place," came the
response, and that was the start of what has become, for me, an odd
obsession with roast duck.
Prior to my first Village Inn excursion I'd had duck a few times,
and liked it OK. My mother waxes poetic about the Peking duck my
parents and their friends used to gorge themselves on, back in the
day when, apparently, Peking duck was all the rage. But it's my firm ...