Guebert: My food pyramid goes back to Little Egypt

Guebert: My food pyramid goes back to Little Egypt

As has been noted here before, I don't eat today what we ate every day on the dairy farm of my youth. Back then we worked like plow horses so we ate like plow horses: five times daily with a noon dinner as the big table-bender. How we ate all that food–hefty pork and beef roasts, buckets of potatoes, pounds of butter, vegetables both fresh and canned, raw milk, home-rendered lard, a variety of sausages, baked goods, and sugary desserts–and then …