Dedication Listing

August 2 & 3, 2002: The Knife Box

June 16th, 2009

American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Friday and Saturday August 2 and 3, 2002
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
 
The Flatbread Kitchen Knife Box
 
Props to you, Knife Box- you are a big shot!
 
You great protector of limbs and digits and sharp blades.
You serve humanity and machinery both,
You gray, plastic, utilitarian apparatus.
 
Knife box, you have [...]

August 30 & 31, 2002: Out From Under the Wing of Grace

June 16th, 2009

American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Friday and Saturday August 30 and 31, 2002
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
 
Out From Under the Wing of Grace ♥
 
Once I was sheltered
From all but the smallest
Circle of the world.
I threw baseballs
And snowballs,
And kicked stones down dirt roads
Every darkness was broken
By the glimmer of star light.
I lived under [...]

July 12 & 13, 2002: Our Vegetable Garden

June 16th, 2009

American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Friday and Saturday July 12 and 13, 2002
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
 
Our Vegetable Garden
 
The abundance of fresh vegetables and fruits makes July a special time for every gardener in Vermont. This week, we harvested our first zucchini and tomorrow our first tomato; haricot vert (fancy French green beans) will [...]

July 12 & 13, 2002: On this Perfect Summer Day

June 16th, 2009

American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Dedication
Friday and Saturday July 12 and 13, 2002
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
 
On This Perfect Summer Day
 
On this perfect summer day
I awoke to a cool breeze
Blowing in my bedroom window
I rose and washed and went downstairs
And kissed my son good morning
 
On this perfect summer day
I made breakfast [...]

June 14 & 15, 2002: Afghanistan Summer

June 16th, 2009

American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Dedication
Friday and Saturday June 14 and 15, 2002
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
 
Afghanistan Summer
 
            My good friend, Jonathan Hoffman, is off to Afghanistan this summer. He’ll be working in association with the United Nations. His volunteer work is simply to go and be of help in any way he is [...]

May 20, 1994: The Five Faces of Food, Part IV, the Face of Nurturing

June 16th, 2009

American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Dedication
Friday May 20th, 1994
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
 
The Five Faces of Food
Part IV, the Face of Nurturing
 
Toward the end of the days of waiting, the old woman, my companion in the forest, and I entered a period of silence. We had been told the fourth face of food would [...]

June 28 & 29, 2002: Hello Middlebury!

June 16th, 2009

American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Dedication
Friday and Saturday June 28 and 29, 2002
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
 
Hello Middlebury ♥
 
            Last night, (Thursday for those of you reading this Saturday evening) was our first public bake in Middlebury. It was the culmination of two years of dreaming and eight months of planning and hard work. [...]

June 7 & 8, 2002: Lady Slippers

June 16th, 2009

American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Dedication
Friday and Saturday June 7 and 8, 2002
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
 
Lady Slippers
 
Chive flowers, wild fragrant phlox, lilacs,
Iris, lupine, apple blossoms, cherry blossoms,
Johnny-jump-ups, jacob’s ladder, buttercups, lady slippers.
 
Pansies, stock, cosmos, nasturtium,
Geranium, marigold, impatiens, sweet alyssum,
Begonias, fuchsia
 
Small planted gardens, big fields’ tilled rows
With green shoots, newly mown hay and [...]

June 2, 2002: Come Unite

June 16th, 2009

American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Dedication
Friday and Saturday May 31 and June 1, 2002
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
 
Come Unite
Sunday, June 2, 2-5 PM, Lareau Farm
 
Violence comes in many guises
I would count them if I could
But it would turn my stomach
All about, and I fear
I would find no end
To its many ways.
 
It is not, [...]

June 21 & 22, 2002: Summer Solstice

June 16th, 2009

American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Dedication
Friday and Saturday June 21 and 22, 2002
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
 
Summer Solstice
 
Oh, sun,
We welcome you!
 
Hot as you are- with your solar storms
And not-quite-perfect temperatures.
 
We welcome you today,
Stay as long as you like.
 
For we know that today we have the pleasure
Of your company for longer than [...]