Gelato? …after hours, in the back….but don’t tell anyone
I was sitting on the deck at the Breadboard the other day. It was a nice sunny day, which has actually been kind of rare lately because surprisingly we have finally been getting quite a bit of rain which is a good thing and the view was stunning and I was hungry after a nice morning bike ride through the vineyards which used to be orchards and I was sipping a latte and trying to decide between the Creme Brûlée French Toast special or the Huevos Rancheros and I was feeling very mysterious and foreign. And just then I overheard that there was a rumor that the Porto Gelato guy was going to set up his 98% organic gelato cart in the backyard behind the Breadboard – well, the gelato is 98% organic, not the cart – it’s an Italian antique bicycle gelato freezer cart and the gelato is unusually creamy and really really good – awesome actually – and he is always experimenting with new flavors and he’ll been selling this stuff in the afternoons after the Breadboard is closed and you can sit in the yard in back in the shade on a hot summer day and feel blissful. And thinking about it made me want the Breadboard’s Italiano omelette with mild Italian sausage, basil, thyme, green onions, garlic and jack cheese because I thought I’d have gelato later in the day and I wanted to get in the mood and then I heard that in Italy they were filming a remake of Ben Hur which was originally shot in Italy in 1959 but this time because of today’s advanced computer graphics the chariot race scene needed only hundreds of extras rather than thousands and I started thinking about the dangers of chariot racing and how nice it is that Ashland is such a bike friendly town and then I ordered a cappuccino and despite the amount of caffeine shooting through my system, I felt wonderfully lazy and satisfied – just another typical morning at the Breadboard…