He came back from Connecticut with the sloppy joe recipe. A herd of us twelve-year-olds waded the Allagash River, made a fire, and set up camp. This was going to be a culinary experience never before tried on this island by preteens. The old recipe had been around since 1930, but its debut in my hometown was in 1964.
Can you visualize a group of gluttonous boys lounging around after consuming way too much ground beef, with who knows what was added to it, loaded between two sesame seed buns? He did it up right.
It was one of the best meals I ever had. The cook’s motto was, “Taste and see how good this is.”
The Bible speaks of the need to taste new things:
Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
We have sixty-six books full of recipes that one can truly enjoy.
Give it some thought.
Gary