(Al, 19??, White Plains?Rockport?)
( marcie said...I was always told that this picture was from Roie and Al's first apartment. He always loved to tell the story that Roie couldn't cook( Jeff agreed) in her early years: I came later, and am evidence that her cooking improved!)
(Pete said, for some reason I could sweat Al told me this was Rockport)
Please chime in with any food recollections you may have. Seems like an odd subject, but it is what we are made of, and often the source of our closest passions!
Pete
My Post here lead to a few comments on Al's favorite eating haunts besides the Newport Creamery:
Lala made fun of him for not being a Gourmand because his favorite place was Mary Darlings, which Marcie corrected, correctly, as Eileen Darlings. (Ah, LA, you never had to endure one of Al's patented Grandfatherly talks over lunch at Eileen Darlings!). But Elizabeth also pointed out that AL enjoyed food and definetly bread-he had an ability to "palm" a half a loaf of bread and walk by without it being noticed. My Bo has also got this trick.
Turning to a more serious side of Al's appreciation of food, Susan noted how he was, a ""great appreciator" of my cooking and it gave me joy to cook him a meal. He'd want to know, what was in it and how did I prepare it? Maybe he just did that because he knew cooking was something I enjoyed." But Susan, Aren't we ALL!
Of course, Susan also had to admit Al was a "fan of the Country Buffet in Seekonk. I remember him telling me of what a wonderful place it was, you pick up a tray, stand in line and get to go up as much as you want! If I recall I think that is where he met one of the young men working there that he put through Johnson & Wales. Expensive dinner that night." (Editor: HAH!)
Lala chimed in with a classic: We were visiting Naples and Dad took my little family out to a all you can eat for $4.99- if you got the early bird. At the end Bo thanked him, said it was good & "Bapa can we eat someplace else the next time?"
Ultimately, I think Ted, Sara and Katie--the first generation of Grandkids--will agree with me, at the time Al was taking us out for dinners we didn't know much about food either! Al would take us out to dinner or lunch at the Wharf Tavern or the Lobster Pot or Eileen Darlings or the Country Buffet and we thought they were all fancy places! After all it was a serious meal--full of what will you do with your life chatter. (okay, even I knew at 12 that Eileen Darlings was not a great place--on the other hand I also remember Roie loving it, which makes it a 5 star place).
5 comments:
DEFINITLY NOT A GOURMAND, PETE. HIS IDEA OF GOING OUT WAS AHALF HOUR AT MARY DARLING'S RESTAURANT. OOPS cap light on.... But he enjoyed food and definetly bread. he had an ability to "palm" a half a loaf of bread and walk by without it being noticed. My Bo has also got this trick.
La
Right-o, Gourmand he was not but he was a "great appreciator" of my cooking and it gave me joy to cook him a meal. He'd want to know, what was in it and how did I prepare it? Maybe he just did that because he knew cooking was something I enjoyed. He also was a fan of the Country Buffet in Swansea. I remember him telling me of what a wonderful place it was, you pick up a tray, stand in line and get to go up as much as you want! If I recall I think that is where he met one of the young men working there that he put through Johnson & Wales. Expensive dinner that night.
Correction to above:
In Elizabeth's comment it is Eileen Darlings and not Mary's.
In Susan's comment the Country Buffet is in Seekonk and not Swansea.
S
We were visiting Naples and Dad took my little family out to a all you can eat for $4.99- if you got the early bird. At the end Bo thanked him, said it was good & "Bapa can we eat someplace else the next time?"
Lala
I was always told that this picture was from Roie and Al's first apartment. He always loved to tell the story that Roie couldn't cook( Jeff agreed) in her early years: I came later, and am evidence that her cooking improved!
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