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Good Food, Good Memories

Do you have some memory that includes recalling what you ate and how good is was? I do!  I can recall several moments in time because of the incredible taste of some dish or dessert.  When Byron and I traveled to Salvador for our twentieth wedding anniversary, we ate at a small Italian pizzeria in the little village of shops at Praia do Forte.  The workers were speaking Italian to each other and even had Italian music playing on their speakers.  They baked the pizza in a large brick oven and we could see into the oven from our table.  I had bruschetta and Byron had some pasta dish.  I can still remember the smells and sounds and the taste of the food. We had been traveling with Uncle Harold Reiner to see the cave paintings of Capivara and the Serra das Confusões in the state of Piaui.  We had crossed over the top of the "Confusion Mountains" the night before.  We were all tired, hungry, and slightly lost.  But we had to keep going on or ...

Food in a Box

"Wow, is this American?"     "Is this how it comes in the States?"   "I thought it came in a little can you put in the microwave."           "Where did this come from anyway?"   "How much does it cost in America?"   "We could live on this stuff after we go to the States to live!"   "May I have some more, please!" This past week our dear "big city" missionary friend sent us some much needed tea (we were out), 4 boxes of Walmart macaroni and cheese she found at the big city grocery store and a giant bottle of real Hershey's chocolate syrup she found on a recent trip.  Woo hoo!  Hog Heaven! The chocolate syrup deserved some ice cream to go along with it which we enjoyed one evening.  The mac & cheese went with pork chops and green beans for lunch one day.   The boys talked and talked about it.  Had it been that long since they'd had some good mac & cheese.  Apparently ...

Ratatouille and the Beggar Man

Yesterday morning some of my "regular customers" came by to see if I had anything good to give away.  Reminded me of this story from a few years ago... Today, of all days, I had a beggar. He just wanted something to eat. We have lots of beggars here in Brazil.  Sometimes they seem to have a shopping list up their sleeve - Do you have any ... wait, wait, um ... coffee?  Okay, no coffee, well, how about some old clothes.  I usually help about one beggar a week.  Some are regular customers.  If I just plain don't have anything, I just tell them and suggest they come back some other day.  I try to be kind and do my best to be helpful.  I do not give money.  On this particular day my morning had not been going real well and I was trying to get lunch ready.  I had the ingredients for a new recipe I wanted to try for lunch, but my cupboards were a little bare otherwise.  I decided to give Mr. Beggar Man my nicest sob story about having ...