Archive for July, 2010

Kids in the Kitchen

By treatyrockbeef - Last updated: Monday, July 19, 2010

Howdy Farmers Market Friends:   Each of us are entrusted with important gifts to pass along to our children and other kids too.  Among these – a foundation of good manners, a healthy revulsion for the New York Yankees and a love of food and cooking.  The kid who doesn’t learn family foodways soon finds [...]

The Abbondanza Papers

By treatyrockbeef - Last updated: Thursday, July 8, 2010

When I was a kid, my friends and I quickly learned which of the neighborhood houses were the right ones to show up at just around mealtime.  This was where I learned the Old World term abbondanza – abundance, plenty, copiousness.