Dedication Listing

Fresh Flatbread: April 16 & 17, 2010

April 16th, 2010

American Flatbread – Flatbread kitchen
April 16, 2010
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
Fresh Flatbread
A garden full of beautiful daisys, lillys, tulips, poppys, roses, vegetables
Growing orange carrots shining like gold in the sun
Then the sun goes down hiding behind the hills the moon awakes
“We’re Open” says a sign on the door
People flood in waiting for their [...]

Food Revolution, 1992

April 14th, 2010

There is a  REVOLUTION in the air.
Not a revolution of generals and armies.  It is more Copernican than that.  It is a revolution of our
THINKING.
Thinking that knows good food comes from
GOOD FARMING,
and good farming depends on a healthy environment; thinking that knows it is not possible to produce truly nurturing food with pesticides, herbicides, growth [...]

I Am America July 4, 1993

April 14th, 2010

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 [...]

December 13 & 14, 2002: Dead Sea Salt Bread

June 16th, 2009

American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Friday and Saturday December 13 and 14, 2002
Tonight’s Menu and Baking are dedicated to
 
Dead Sea Salt Bread
First Draft
 
Special thanks to Jen Moffroid for getting the salt to Waitsfield, to Don Sydney for his internet research, and to Beea Benedict, who made the first batch of dough.
 
            New ideas or initiatives often [...]

October 4 & 5, 2002: Share the Harvest Benefit Bake

June 16th, 2009

American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Dedication
Friday and Saturday, October 4 and 5, 2002
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
 
Share the Harvest Benefit Bake
 
            This Friday, American Flatbread is happy to join other restaurants throughout Vermont in supporting “Share the Harvest”, a NOFA (Northeast Organic Farmers Association) initiative to help low-income Vermonters access fresh, local, seasonal vegetables, [...]

September 1, 2002: The Catamount Trail Association

June 16th, 2009

American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
The week of September 1, 2002
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
 
The Catamount Trail Association ♥
 
            Here in Waitsfield, this Friday, we are hosting a benefit bake for the Catamount Trail Association. The Catamount trail is a 300 mile cross-country trail that winds its way through the Green Mountains from the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Wild Baby Leeks, aka “Ramps”: April 24 & 25, 2009

April 23rd, 2009

 
 
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 [...]

Toward a New Legal Framework for VT Food: Part VI, April 3 & 4, 2009

April 22nd, 2009

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 [...]