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 [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Friday and Saturday March 22+23, 1996
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
My Other Brother
My other brother
Stands alone.
Betrayed, enslaved
Away from home.
My other brother
On broken knees,
Impoverished by
My racist greed.
Unknown, unloved,
Untouched, unheard,
Without country or nest,
Like some wind blown bird.
But now I see
My other brother
By strength of will and faith,
Rise out of the ash of [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Friday May 17, 1996
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
Home at Last
Twenty years ago, Charles Fallick found his way to this valley. He told me the story once. I don’t remember the details, it seems he was passing through with a friend and they decided to stay awhile. Some people [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Friday and Saturday March 15+16, 1996
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
The Ides of March
After Julius Caesar’s victories in Gaul in 50 BC, his one time ally, Pompey, began to believe that it was Caesar’s intention to march on Rome itself. Suspicions on both sides increased, and with the aid [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Friday and Saturday March 1+2, 1996
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
Community Heroes
I saw a story on the TV news
A few weeks ago.
It said Americans
Are not volunteering
The way they used to.
Boy Scouts of America: down 27%
The Red Cross: down 62%
One high school of almost 600 students
Could only muster five parents
For the [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Friday and Saturday February 1+2, 2008
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
Plastics in American Food
I do not know, even of a private corner in American food, that is free of plastics. I do not think I have had one meal in fifty years that was wholly free of it, and [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Friday and Saturday February 29, March 1, 2008
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
Imperfect Flatbread
“So let me see if I have this right,” the exasperated guest said to me: “You start taking names for ‘The List’ at 4:30, but to eat at 5:30 I really need to be here closer to [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Friday and Saturday January 25+26, 2009
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
New Writings
If these dedications are mini-essays to be completed on this single page, then for the past two weeks I have been writing micro-essays to be complete in not more than three short sentences drawn upon the confines of a [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Friday and Saturday March 6+7, 2009
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
From Pig to Pork:
Toward a New Legal Framework for Vermont Food
Part IV
…It took me several calls to get through to Ralph and Cynthia persons and when I did it was moose season. Cynthia answered the cell phone in the field [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Friday and Saturday February 22+23, 2008
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
Yesterday and Today
Thanks to Megan, Paul, Girl George, Dale, Clay, Kim, and Dan—
I could not have done it without you.
As I sit to write this dedication, I pause with a deep fatigue… and it is already 6:30 PM. I [...]
