Brunch for 20, people who work at, or used to work at, Madison’s Community Pharmacy. The brunch was a retirement party for one of them, who is working on a history of the pharmacy – so the stories I got to overhear were great. Recollections of old blue laws from the 1970s in WI, when condoms could not be displayed, and how the pharmacy started as a workers collective, selling vat-size containers of commercial shampoo and conditioner and toothpaste and toilet paper by the case to the housing co-ops in town, in contrast to the all natural products they sell today. I love going there and buying fancy chocolate and organic hand lotion in the same place.
They ate:
Spinach crêpe gateau – the recipe also from another early Madison institution, the Ovens of Brittany
Roasted potatoes with rosemary & garlic – all kinds of potatoes, white, gold, red Finn, purple, fingerling, sweet – from the indoor farmers’ market
Tossed salad with reduced cider vinaigrette
Cinnamon chip scones and Door County cherry muffins – the muffins had 3 cups of cherries, 2 cups of sugar and a cup of butter for two dozen muffins – not counting the additional couple of TBLS pf butter for the crunchy topping. Buttery goodness – yum.
- Door County Cherry muffins
- Cinnamon chip scones
- Platter of out-of-season fruit
- Roasted mixed potatoes with rosemary & garlic
- Salad with reduced cider vinaigrette
- Another view of the whole table
- Brunch table
- Brunch table
- Spinach gateau
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