For my 9th birthday, my only wish was to eat like a farmer boy. I had devoured The Little House on the Prairie book series, and wanted to be like Almanzo Wilder, the protagonist of Farmer Boy, one of the later installments in the Little House series.
A week before September 27, my mother asked what I'd like for my birthday. I wanted to eat exactly what Almanzo ate, farm food of the 1870s. Mom pulled it off. To this...
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