Dedication Listing

November 22 & 23, 2002: Thanksgiving

June 16th, 2009

American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Friday and Saturday November 22 and 23, 2002
Tonight’s Menu and Baking are dedicated to
 
Thanksgiving
 
Feeling very holiday-ish, as well as very thankful today, I did a little research and was pleased to find Thanksgiving such a long standing tradition in our country- stemming back to its earliest settlers.
The origin of Thanksgiving [...]

October 25 & 26, 2002: New Oven Arch

June 16th, 2009

American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Dedication
Friday and Saturday, October 25 and 26, 2002
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
 
New Oven Arch
 
            Yesterday morning I received a call from Camilla, “You might want to come in on your way to Burlington (I was off to the 14th Vermont Traumatic Brain Injury Conference) and have a look at [...]

August 27, 2002: Dear Community

June 16th, 2009

American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
August 27, 2002
 
Dear Community,
 
            I am heartsick.
            I feel sadness with no bottom. I feel anger with no place to point it.
I feel the relentless, aching loss of a friend, of a co-worker, and a child of our community.
            The events of April 12th, when Declan Lyons was shot while [...]

May 24 7 25, 2002: Our New Kitchen

June 16th, 2009

American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Dedication
Friday and Saturday May 24 and 25, 2002
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
 
Our New Kitchen
 
Welcome to our new kitchen. This place has been made out of the shell of a nineteenth century barn. It’s a nice old barn, and I’ve always liked it, but barns don’t make the best commercial [...]

BREAD, ART, and MUSIC, August 23 & 24, 1996

March 16th, 2009

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 [...]

The Heart of Warren, June 30 & July 1, 1995

March 16th, 2009

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 [...]

New Men, March 13 & 14, 2009

March 16th, 2009

American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen
Friday and Saturday March 13+14, 2009
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to
 
New Men
 
I heard of it first by rumor,
Then a call of confirmation:
“Our young men are dying,” she said.
“Dying in a distant reckless war, dying on our streets close to home.”
Dying from hate and misunderstanding by bullets and bombs,
Dying from too [...]

The Ides of March,March 15 & 16, 1996

March 16th, 2009

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 [...]

Yesterday and Today, February 22 & 23, 2008

March 16th, 2009

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 [...]

The Burlington Oven, February 6 & 7, 2004

March 5th, 2009

Friday and Saturday February 6 & 7, 2004
Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to:
The Burlington Oven
There is an American Flatbread oven being built for a restaurant on St. Paul Street in Burlington this week. Much of it is done by the work of hands:
* 12,000 lbs of local rock were built into a base for [...]