Storytime Foods

Storytime Foods STORYTIME FOODS handcrafts Near Eastern and custom delights! New-world revival of centuries-old delicacies. Vermont-made nourishing body, mind and soul.

03/11/2019

Snowed in yesterday. Surplus inventory. Storytime's loss is your gain. TODAY AND TODAY ONLY. WHILE SUPPLIES LAST. Storytime Strawberry Bread and Blueberry Muffins at FRANK P> MCCARTIN CO. @149 Congress Street Lowell, MA. FREE to first 20 customers (there may be 30). GO DOWN AND GET YOURS! Tell McCartin's we sent ya and make sure to check out some new bathroom fixtures and furnaces while your there! Food event starts around 9:00 a.m. so the clock is a tickin'.

01/20/2019

It's MINUS 24 DEGREES FAHRENHEIGHT IN WEST CENTRAL VERMONT. You TAUGHT YOURSELF how to stretch out on the couches and beds, DOG. Teach yourself how to SIT ON THE TOILET.

12/27/2018

Sorry, NYC, Albany, Saratoga Springs, Waitsfield and Rutland. The STORYTIME Foodsmiths will be "ON VACATION" in Portsmouth, NH for the next several days. (We ARE looking for a gig there. We'll update you on any developments regarding that.)

12/22/2018

It may have been a MILITARY PERSON (they'd know) that said one reason the well-trained Iraqi Army TWICE capitulated so quickly was that they lacked an adequate supply of babagnoush.

(Maybe that was bullets. Whatever. I'm pretty sure it was LACK OF SOMETHING.)

Anyway, STORYTIME made 25 lbs. of BABAGNOUSH and GUDFRUS last night (New England's BEST), as well as our signature stuffed breads, bursting blueberry muffins, savory spinach phyllo stopovers, sweet apricot chem-ki-dems, It's off to the Rutland Farmers Market, baby, while the crew preps the stuff for SARATOGA and WAITSFIELD tomorrow.

Get yourself AT LEAST ONE of each. DON'T LACK SOMETHING like the Iraqi Army did!

The care packages are to be delivered on Monday, Merrimack Valley and NH gang. Hang in there!

STORYTIME FOODS --- Sure to entitle a Christmas Party host and/or hostess to stand up and take a bow!

12/16/2018

A final, precarious batch of dough for tomorrow's STORYTIME events provided the PERFECT OPPORTUNITY to do a TEST LOAF we've been pondering for some time. Proven viable, it could REVOLUTIONIZE our methods, our entire bread line, maybe the bread industry, perhaps the food chain/ and (who knows?) could NATIONAL SECURITY be too remote an area to affect? More to come...

12/02/2018

STORYTIME FOODSMITHS are at Lincoln Bathhouse in Saratoga Springs, NY (where it is raiining) and Mad River Taste Place in Waitsfleid, VT (where it's snowing). Don't let the weather get you down. Cabin fever sucks. Go to the farmers market!

11/27/2018

So, Denis, Sr. helped Caroline with Latin homework and came up with the following:
Quis in primo est. Quid in secondo est. Non scio in tertio est.

11/23/2018

This is called "[Doing] Time With the Kids":
Show of hands. How many of you were, like me, forced by your parents to "go outside and play" when you were a kid? (You just know the number of hands going up on that question gets fewer and fewer as the years go by. It's time...) And how many of you did not want to go back inside once you got outside when you were a kid? (That question gets even FEWER hands going up as the years go by.)
Teddy Harmon knew. He knew what we all knew. He knew EVERYTHING. He knew how to recover from a bruised knee in 5 minutes. He knew how to apply a Band-Aid stuffed with an extra cotton ball to cover the puncture in the sole of his foot after pulling it off of a rusty nail protruding from the board going across the narrow point of the Oak Hollow Swamp, just beyond which the older kids grew their pot plants. (“Good enough to stop the bleeding…” was the medical standard by which the kids pronounce themselves “cured” of such paltry injuries.) Along with others, he knew how to organize large numbers of people with whistles and hoots made with coupled fingers and cupped hands --- without telephones, without cell phones, without social media, without internet connectivity. Like the rest of his peers, Teddy could rally a day-long game of street stickball, street football, street hockey, snowball/snowfort “wars”, home-made bow & arrow “wars”, Red Rover, Relievo, Freeze Tag or Hide-And-Go-Seek within 10 to 15 minutes.
And there was depth. Remember? Teddy remembered. He remembered those folks up the street from him who ONLY had 7 children in their family, who practiced what at the time classified as birth control. Yeah --- DEPTH!
And Teddy remembered the assembled teams would almost always be constituted by multiple members of the same families --- sometimes on the same side, sometimes on opposing sides. There was so much depth.
Teddy remembered layers of games going on simultaneously, not even counting the Hop-Scotch and Jump Rope games consuming large numbers of the neighborhood girls.
In an effort to infuse his kids with some of the character, self-reliance, improvisation and cleverness that used to be nurtured in his childhood game-playing, Teddy started secretly taking the power cords, battery recharging cords and controllers from his kids' machines and computers. (Teddy quietly and forlornly observed that he couldn't remember the last time that he remembered the kids asking for or receiving a cap gun, a jump-rope, a Hula Hoop, a Frisbee, a baseball glove, a football or basketball or even a container of colored chalk for a birthday or Christmas present. He didn’t even know where to look around the house for such contemporary relics of juvenile entertainment, once so prolific in the average American household.) Over the years, the wayward cords found their way into the cord orphanage in a kid-ignored cupboard under his library bookcase, high tech amputees triaged together in an insolvable mass like overcooked spaghetti noodles.
Teddy was pleased when his daughter brought home a friend from school one day. Unburdening herself of her bookbag, Amy Harmon panted, "Lets look at some new music videos, Lulu." To Teddy's great delight Amy’s young mate Lulu excitedly said, "Let's go OUTSIDE AND PLAY, Amy!"
It seemed to him like hours later when Teddy looked out from his study to see Amy and her friend counting “1, 2, 3 O,Leary. My first name is Mary,” and... jumping rope ... with power cords.

11/08/2018

Middlebury, VT knows. So does Rutland, Chester, Poultney, Castleton, Rochester, Waitsfield, White River Junction, Woodstock, Taftsville, Brandon, Salisbury, Bristol, Charlotte, Shelburne, Williston, Winooski, Waterbury, Montpelier, Barre and Bethel, VT. Saratoga, NY knows. So does Brooklyn, Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, Hudson Falls, Albany, Colonie and New Rochelle, NY. Woodstock, CT knows. So do individuals in the Merrimack Valley, on Long Island and as far away as Paris, France. STORYTIME FOODS MAKES NEW ENGLAND'S BEST BRREADS, MUFFINS, PHYLLO PASTRIES, GUDFRUS, BABAGNOUSH!
STORYTIME FOODS will be featured at the Portsmouth (NH) Regional Hospital on Friday, November 9, from 9 - 2. Come sample our unique twists on traditional Armenian cuisine and also sample and pick up New England's best apple cider, honey, maple syrup while you are there. Order some for the holidays. Nothing compares.
Also appearing on Friday, as usual, at Harlem Hospital on Lennox Avenue and 135th Street in Manhattan from 7 - 5:30.
Saturday - Rutland (VT) Farmers Food Center 9 - 2.
Sunday - Spa City Farmers Market (Saratoga, NY) 10 - 2.
If you don't have any in your kitchen yet, get with the "times.... STORYTIME'S.

11/08/2018

I call this "Low Road to the High Ground".

I opened the letter with a despicable resignation. I knew it was a reminder of the outstanding traffic ticket that had been issued and upaid since July 2016. I had initially requested a hearing, because I wanted to dispute the issuance of the original ticket (seatbelt violation). I missed the hearing and a fine resulted. New York suspended my license to drive in NY. VT reciprocated. NY's notice was threat of a collection action against me for the fine and a surcharge.

I called the NY DMV Traffic Violations Division. On the phone, I adopted a subterfuge with the bureaucrat to test what I assume is a common dilemma faced by suspended drivers.

"It's a CRUEL CIRCLE," I said, "that I cannot AFFORD to PAY the fine BECAUSE YOU SUSPENDED my license to operate a vehicle to get me to the places I NEED TO BE in order to MAKE THE MONEY I NEED to PAY THE FINE that would REINSTATE MY LICENSE." I furhter explained that farmers, unlike state DMV employees, don't make a whole lot of money, and there's always something critical breaking down on the farm that quickly consumes whatever modest savings the farmer accumulates from time to time.

The bureaucrat admonished, "You've had since June 2016 to pay this fine. You could have even paid less if you paid on time or even showed up for your hearing. We didn't suspend your license, YOU DID."

"Oh, I'm SO SORRY," I responded. "I should have called much earlier for a lecture on the IMMORALITY of being POOR. Perhaps I should have applied for WELFARE to have taxpayers subsidize my payment of the fine. Now that I know poverty is a moral issue, I feel confident enough to send you a check from my barren account and know that the money will magically appear to cover the draft. I wish I had talked to you sooner. We are such BAD PEOPLE, being POOR and all."

I felt the bladed comment pierce his officious armor. He became subdued. "No further charges will accumulate. Take your time. Just know you are suspended until it gets paid. I'm sorry if you felt insulted."

He was totally outmatched, and I have some lingering conscience problems to deal with in that regard. But I felt myself the self-anointed representative of a class of people who might NOT have spoken up about how he handled conversations with the truly impovershed. Maybe the experience changes him. Maybe he trains others in the DMV and elsewhere to not make assumptions about people, but treat everyone with equal dignity. Maybe...
Tomorrow I'll pay my fine and feel crestfallen and defeatedd by "The Man". But today... Today I felt AWESOME and POWERFUL.

10/10/2018

Look what came across in STORYTIME's email (Posted by customer's permission):

"On two occasions have had the opportunity to purchase dozens of Storytime blueberry muffins at the Saratoga Sun. market. Each muffin is chock-a -block with blueberries and has a very balanced and savoy taste. Have frozen muffins ziploc bags and found they retain their shape and moist texture even after months in the freezer compartment. The combination of top drawer ingredients and expert preparation in your muffins has given me energy as a breakfast food or snack. Storytime muffins are by far the best muffins I have come across. Thank you Storytime for providing healthy and delicious pastry.

Signed Jim C. in DE."

Now, if I only had time to associate this testimonial with the muffin pics on STORYTIME's FB page.

09/21/2018

Because of their sheer number and the desire to be as pleasant as possible to EVERY caller STORYTIME customers should take notice and not take offense if the phones are answered: "Hello, Robocall! How may I help you without pressing any buttons?"
BTW... STORYTIME will be at the BETHEL FORWARD FESTIVAL in Bethel and the VERMONT FARMERS' MARKET in Rutland and at the SHELBURNE FARMERS' MARKET on Saturday fom 10 - 2 with our wide selection of Great Silk Road Breads, phyllo stopovers,narzarkht pastries, babagnoush, gudfrus, muffins and, (who knows?) maybe a couple of surprises. Also at the SPA CITY (SARATOGA) FARMERS' MARKET on Sunday, 10 - 3. Hope we see you there.
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Middlebury, VT
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