The above, Market Woman with Vegetable Stall, was painted in oil on wood, 11 x 10 cm, by Pieter Aertsen in 1567. It is in the Staaliche Museen, Berlin, Germany and was found on the web site, Web Gallery of Art, at http://www.wga.hu/ that was created by Emil Kren and Daniel Marx.

"Patty’s Adventures with Food" is about food, recipes, memories and people that make up the world around us. The question that is used for the header of this blog is an on going question that throughout the world is asked by someone of someone. Hope you enjoy the recipes, memories and tidbits and will send me your comments.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

The Faces of Yesterday

The cookhouse was set apart from the shelter house at picnic grounds.  The fourth Saturday in July was hot before noon and would be hotter after noon.  For a six-year-old girl the threshold to the cookhouse was the best place to be when there was going to be an all day and half the night, picnic.

The women who had worked all week alongside my Mom in the small rubber shop over in North Dayton (now called Old North Dayton!) allowed me to sit on the threshold where I could smell the aromas of their cooking. 

Mom wasn't in the kitchen because she didn't know how to make Cabbage Rolls, Hungarian Goulash or Pierogis.  The women, most of who were second generation Europeans, felt sorry for me because I was so very little and my Mom was the "poor widow woman" from Appalachia.  It was not long before one of the women pushed a plate filled with a cabbage leaf, hamburger, rice and tomatoes with a hunk of black bread at me and said, "Here, eat this while you watch them set up the polka band. Eat!"

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