American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen Dedication Friday, December 31st, 2004 Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to Transparent Food No. 5 Last night I wrote: “we have come, rightly, to trust the foods that nourished and nurtured those who came before us.” This essential trust is now being eroded by an ethos of secrecy and [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen Dedication Thursday, December 30th, 2004 Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to Transparent Food No. 4 Last night I wrote: “food is important because it is absolutely essential to our lives, and has a great influence on the well-being of the world. And so, where our food has come from [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen Dedication Wednesday, December 29th, 2004 Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to Transparent Food No. 3 I ended last night’s dedication with these words: “Food shapes our well-being, and the well-being of the world.” Food touches virtually all aspects of the human experience: it is art and science, it is [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen Dedication Tuesday, December 28th, 2004 Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to Transparent Food No. 2 In T.F. No. 1 (last night’s dedication), I wrote about the wholesale change of how food is farmed in America—a change that has primarily occurred since the end of World War II. It is [...]
American Flatbread – Flatbread Kitchen Dedication Monday, December 27th, 2004 Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to Transparent Food No. 1 Think of a farm and what comes to mind? A farm family of husband, wife, some kids. Maybe Grandma or Grandpa lives there, too; a house, a barn, and in the barnyard the milking [...]
American Flatbread + Flatbread Kitchen Dedication Friday and Saturday, January 7th and 8th, 2005 Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to The Mountaintop Film Festival It has been said that a world without conflict would not be a very inspiring place for art, but perhaps what would be worse is a world, as ours is, [...]
American Flatbread + Flatbread Kitchen Dedication Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, July 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, 2005 Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to The American Flag Now There is hardly a place without a flag anymore. I see it on telephone poles, t-shirts, and business cards. I see it waving from cars and hanging from [...]
AMERICAN FLATBREAD – FLATBREAD KITCHEN DEDICATION Friday and Saturday, March 7 + 8, 2008 Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated to two milk stories. ONE: I read in the Free Press today a wire service story from deep in the American south. A dairy farmer went out of business because the sewage sludge [...]
AMERICAN FLATBREAD – FLATBREAD KITCHEN DEDICATION FRIDAY AND SATURDAY FEBRUARY 27 + 28, 2009 Tonight’s menu and baking are dedicated toward a new and legal framework for Vermont food. From Pig to Pork, Part III I did not care for the pigs alone. Denny DeCofe and Noah Trask often refreshed their water and [...]
Political Food Food is important. Its consumption is essential to our health and vitality. More thank anything else we do, its production, processing, and distribution affects our environment. It is around food we so often gather in the warm company of family and friends, and share in what is best of [...]
