Cooking Hot Mickeys
by Philip And Robbie Bracco
Title
Cooking Hot Mickeys
Artist
Philip And Robbie Bracco
Medium
Mixed Media - Water Color
Description
When the summer months faded and the fresh clean autumn air arrived, neighborhood kids would go out into an old vacant lot and cook potatoes on a stick over an open fire. Believe me there were many old lots in the industrial area of �Red Hook�.
Each kid had his own stick with a potato on the end and each would take turns cooking their potato. If anyone had a sweet potato, that was the ultimate! Everyone had their own interpretation on how long it needed to cook. Usually the skin was jet black and so were our eyebrows! This was a result of standing too close to the open fire. Some bright kid said that his mother told him that eating the whole potato charred skin and all was very healthy. Every so often a hot ember from the fire would descend down on to our wool coats and of course set it on fire. Those were the risks as we experienced the closest thing to camping out.
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December 29th, 2010
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