American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Dedication
Friday and Saturday, April 19 and 20, 2002
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
Declan Lyons
11·16·77– 04·12·02
Death by violence to anyone is a violence and death to us all. This past week, in one of the three most sacred places of flatbread, our colleague and friend Declan Lyons was slain. By [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Dedication
Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6, 2002
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
Terror and Grace
In world capitols, old warriors gather to debate
The definition of terror and how it relates
To their cause and values and aspirations.
They describe themselves in glowing terms
While those they oppose as less than worms.
Hate and greed and [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Friday and Saturday, April 3 & 4, 2009
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
From Pig to Pork
Toward a New Legal Framework
For Vermont Food
Part VI
…As Cynthia and Ralph Persons drove onto the property I waved and directed them to a parking spot near the pig shed. They both climbed out of [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Dedication
Friday and Saturday, March 29 and 30, 2002
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
On the Remembrance of Ken Elliot and the Nature of God
With the coming of Passover and Easter and the recent observation of the Vernal Equinox (that Pagan celebration that was the wellspring of the monotheistic holidays) and [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Dedication
Friday and Saturday, March 15 and 16, 2002
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
Shrimplessness
When I was a little boy my mother would sometimes buy, for a treat, little shrimp cocktails in glass containers, three to a package, complete with cocktail sauce. I loved the taste of the tomato and horseradish [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Friday and Saturday September 27+28, 1996
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
Friends
Friends have come here tonight.
Faraway friends,
And friends close to home.
Friends of Paula and Mark are here.
Paula and Mark are to be married tomorrow.
Congratulations.
Fred and Susan are friends.
They are here tonight from Mexico.
They laugh and smile and tell me it’s good [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Friday and Saturday August 23+24, 1996
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
BREAD, ART, and MUSIC
Last weekend, at the big Phish concert in Plattsburgh, called the Clifford Ball, we collaborated with the artists of Wood and Wood in a presentation of bread and art.
It was wonderful. It was a lot of [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Friday and Saturday August 22+23,2008
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
Cows Out! Part III
From Part I: I’m for cows out!
Out on the grassy grass,
Out in the sunny sunshine,
Out under a pasture tree
During a summer rain,
Part III: I’m for town meetin’ and democracy.
I’m for the president [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Friday and Saturday March 29+30, 1996
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
Liz Philben
I grew up talking.
Talking with my mom and dad,
Talking with friends.
I guess I like to talk
About as well as anything.
I grew up with curly hair.
Not the kind you roll or buy
Just the kind that sprouts out of your head, [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Friday and Saturday June 30, July 1, 1995
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
The Heart of Warren
I am the heart of Warren ready again for your parade.
I am larders being filled and banners and flags unfurled. I hear the pounding of fence posts and the gathering of friends and family [...]
