I Am America
I am filled with mountains and lakes and rivers and brooks
and forests and grasslands and deserts and wildlife
Wonder
I am beautiful
And I am home and hearth to people who nurture their
children and honor their parents, who work hard and are
generous and thoughtful and caring and whose hearts
Love Greatly.
From my crucible democracy, freedom and liberty [...]
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 [...]
Tonight’s Menu and Baking are Dedicated to
Wild Baby Leeks; ‘Ramps”
The ramp or wild leek is a wild onion native to North America. The bulb resembles that of a scallion, the beautiful flat, broad leaves set it apart.
The word ramp comes from ‘rams’ or ‘ransom’, an Elizabethan dialect rendering of the wild garlic. The [...]
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 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 [...]
