Its been a while since we've posted here. Summer activity is winding down. We're ready to launch our new episode about local food here in Rhode Island. THERE'S JUST SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT IN THAT DEPARTMENT! Speaking of the First Amendment...we've all got to be diligent in its preservation. The episode following local food will be just about that. I hope that you are all looking forward to it. The television show has been going and growing well. We're just a busy bunch. As those of you who have seen, we've been running around every bit of the State to share the good news of Rhode Island. YES, there are some very rough days indeed, but overall, Rhode Island is a charm. We have SOOO MUCH!! Who else has the beautiful blue ocean, maple leaf colors in the fall, green summery veggies, crisp apples, orange pumpkins, delicious red tomatoes, hot chili peppers, watermelons, fuzzy skinned peaches, sea salt in the air, snowflakes on your nose, ocean waves gently flowing on the warm sandy beach between your toes, hilly cold snowy ski slopes (okay, they're not New Hampshire), hot chocolate, fresh milk from the dairy cows, fresh chicken, lobster, crabs, steak, garlic, onions, plums, green green grass, let's not forget the dew from the air, 20 feet of snow in Foster Glocester and Burrillville, and raindrops and downpours on the ocean while the wind whistles and the cold bites your lips while your teeth chatter, arugula, basil (can you smell it?) grape leaves, grapes, peach jam, pizza, pasta, rice, apple bread, cranberry bogs, wheat, rye grass, oak trees, weeping willows, fresh water lakes, ponds, babbling brooks, cod fish, fish and chips, fresh lettuce, pumpking pie, sweet potato fries, onion flowers, moo goo gai pan, mansions, shacks, daffodils, lilacs, roses, fresh squid (a.k.a. calamari or fish bait depending on whether you're enjoying your appetizer with hot pepper rings and fresh lemon or handing off the dock with a delicious cranberry walnut scone with a fishing pole) city life, country life, farming, cement, street lights, marble pillars, grandmother elms, poor, rich, and even sometimes some in between, ocean breachway, native american history and culture like Wampanoag, Canonicut, Usquepaug, Usquebaug, Pascoag, Aquidneck, Mohegan, Chepachet, Meshanticut, Absalona, Neutaconkanut, Ponagansett, Misquamicut, Scituate, Agawam, Narragansett, Apponaug, Wanskuck, Canonchet, for a few, Other cultural history like the "hill." Of course, it depends on which "hill" you're thinking about since the "hill" could be any one of several "hills" I'll let you all guess which "hills" are the seven "hills" of Providence. Good luck with that. Then the Greeks will be asking..what about us? We have villages. When I was little - I lived in the "village" in Cranston. Somehow, if you're from Rhode Island, you know exactly what I mean. Now, I live in a "lower" village in the northern corner of the State, because the upper villages are either because the people in the upper villages are more uppity or...they are on the upper side of the valley which might not be that great for us. Now if we move a little east, we can find the yummiest linguisa, or is that shidish, ciarice, or kielbasa.... oh NO, i think I might have mixed that up. There's hallah bread, bobka, baklava, spaghetti, irish soda bread, Golabki I can never keep it straight. I eat them all though since I'm an American and Rhode Island has the best of the best in the food world while blending in all of its rich culture. .... And then there is Providence which says it all - Roger Williams - soul libertierian...yes, that's right. SOUL LIBERTIERIAN! No mistake in the cool spelling either with my twist on it.
