On the road with SueBob, day 5: food and glass.

If you know me and Mitch even a little, you know we are foodies. Mitch has a photographic memory of every meal he has ever eaten. He can tell you where we ate and what he ordered in St Marten back in 1987 when we were on our honeymoon. 

On Wednesday, we had to say goodbye to our hosts at The Inn on the Main, Jaynee and Guy. As a farewell tribute to them, let me spend some time here telling you about the breakfasts we enjoyed. Day one started with a grilled peach with marscapone cheese. Clearly this couple was setting the stage for an impressive show. The main course (yep, this breakfast has courses) was a summer vegetable frittata. When served a savory main course, a guest should finish with a sweet treat, according to Jaynee, so we had pear cake with an apple cider reduction. 

The next day began with a fruit plate, dusted with powdered sugar and garnished with fresh mint. The main course was blueberry French toast stuffed with lemon creme fraiche. Yea, it was good. By day three, you would think it would be getting difficult for these chefs to jump over the bar they had set. But they opened with a parfait of yogurt, granola, and fruit, and followed it up with a spinach and cheese strata. Ah, yes, that's a savory main course, so let's finish you off with a fruits of the forest strudel. 

Like all good things, this visit must come to an end. On our last morning, we jinxed ourselves by siting at a different table, and you will never in a thousand years guess what was served. A gorgeous presentation of fresh pineapple. Now, everyone else was pleased with this appearance from the tropics....except Mitch. Pineapple is one of literally two foods he will not eat (the other being coconut - apparently he had a traumatic experience in a tropical locale in his previous life). His spirits were lifted minutes later when they presented our main course of macadamia French toast.

I truly cannot say enough about the outstanding food at Inn on the Main. In addition to the breakfasts, there was always a homemade baked good waiting for us when we returned in the evening: peanut butter balls, cranberry bars, chocolate walnut cookies, fudge brownies, Oreo truffles. 

Overall, the Inn on the Main gets five gold stars from all of us. Meticulously neat, beautiful bedding, all the thoughtful details - chocolates in the room, coffee right outside our bedrooms, local menus and maps. Guy and Jaynee are truly gracious hosts and made us feel right at home in Canandaigua.

How does anyone transition to another hotel after this experience? At the Corning Glass Museum of course. I will readily admit I thought it was some strange that everyone kept telling us this museum of glass was a not to miss item on this tour of the Finger Lakes, but they were all spot on. Glass as art in one section, where Sue and I kept nearly walking into walls because the enormous all-white space was  one big optical illusion. This was followed by a demonstration of a gaffer sculpting and blowing glass, taking a ball of lava and turning it into a gorgeous blue vase. Glass as science. Engineering. Physics. Chemistry. The complete history of glass, through time and cultures. It's all here, in the Corning Museum of Glass. 

Totally cultural and educational, but don't worry, we didn't stray too far from our roots. We made it to a winery before five, just in time for its last tasting of the day.