The full bloom of summer is over, as the the summer’s annual festivities and celebrations end. Officially summer is not over but once the fair finishes and the school year starts, it feels done.
Barbecues, musical gatherings, and special parties wind down, yet the taste of summer lingers for quite a while. Sometimes in advertising using the words “a true taste of……” does the trick for higher sales. Cookbooks or recipes touted as offering a taste of summer or a taste of the west during the year forget about the importance of place and experience. one bite often reveals that simply slapping a name on a remembered delicacy often fails to bring back the memories of the one took a first taste of something new.
Remember the sensations of that first bite of hot toasted marshmallow pulled back from the campfire? Or the first s’more of the summer? The experience of being with friends and family make the food cooked outdoors 10 times tastier. There is still time to jam all the tastes of summer into these last few weeks. Go ahead, clean off the grocery shelves of everything that keeps it all going just a little bit longer. Yum!
By DOLLY VISCARDI – Special to the Herald Times
