i'm natalie herbick, and if you haven't figured it out just yet, we are doing an entire show about burgers, one of my favorite things. so we're traveling all over northeast ohio. i'm hanging out here at swenson's in akron, and while i check out this menu, i'm going to send you to north canton to a place where they smoke their burgers. (upbeat music) - smoke the burger joint is one of only a couple of restaurants in the country that actually features smoked hamburgers as the main menu item. so we start with a custom blend of angus beef, fresh meat, never frozen, season it, slow smoke it, and then it's a fast finish on the grill where we kind of get it sizzling again, melt the cheeses, and top it with some creative flavors from all across the country. like, we'll take inspiration from buffalo, and do a buffalo that has bleu cheese and shaved celery on it with a buffalo mayo. we'll do a kansas city steakhouse burger that has mushrooms and bleu cheese on it. barbecue restaurants have large smokers doing 1,800 pounds of meat. here we have three smaller smokers, frankie, angus, and chuck who do

i'm natalie herbick. are you ready for maple madness? i didn't know this, but ohio is actually one of the top five maple sugar producers in the country. and here in geuaga county, it's the top producer in the state of ohio. and we are in the midst of maple season. so today we're gonna show you how it gets from the trees, to you. and it starts here at ma and pa's maple tours, where scott, you guys do things the old fashioned - that's correct. we have sap buckets hanging on the trees and we'll go out and cut some sap and show you how to tap a tree. - [natalie] let's go get some of that ooey, gooey, sticky goodness. - [scott] okay. - [natalie] you ready? - [scott] okay. (kiss) come on cindy. - here we go! (gentle music) so how many acres do you have here? - [scott] we have five acres here with approximately 130 taps. - [natalie] 130 taps? - [scott] that's correct. yes. - [natalie] how can you tell, i mean, for you it's probably easy, but for someone like me, how do i know which trees a maple tree? - a maple tree has a five clove leaf and th

i'm natalie herbick, and you know hey, it's winter time and sometimes we let all that pent up energy, we gotta get it out. and we are here at boston hills ski resort and it's just one of the many places we're for this next hour where you can of that cabin fever you've been feeling. you know this one of those things it's one of the extreme things we're doing, can ski, snowboard... what else can you do here? so if you don't like to ski or snowboard you can come out and go tubing. - [natalie] alright, so this is one of those places, not too many of, you don't find too many places like this throughout the area, and you have two places, brandywine and boston mills. - [steve] right. and also alpine valley now, up in chesterland. we purchased alpine last year. we did some renovations up there, about 2.5 million. so the whole area's redone. new snow making equipment, new lifts, lots of new stuff going on up there. so we actually have three areas now. - [natalie] so how many hills do you have here at boston mills? - [steve] well the areas vary. we have from anywhere from 12 spots or so that yo