Little House Legacy
Bonnie Rose Hudson
Foods of Farmer Boy
.;.;.;Food;is;part;of;the;heritage;and;legacy;that;families;share
and pass on to future generations.
Curl;up;with;a;copy;of;Farmer Boy;written;by;Laura;Ingalls Wilder about the childhood of her future husband and
it;won’t;take;you;long;to;discover;one
thing—this;boy;loved to eat! Among the
first;eighty-three;pages,;food;or;the;sub-ject of meals comes up on no fewer than
thirty-one pages!
1 Almanzo reminds
me;of;another;little;boy;I;know,;a;boy
named Caleb.
Caleb loves;to;eat!;One;of;my;favor-
ite pictures of him is of a time when his
mom was feeding him, not long after
Caleb had graduated from milk to solid
food. I’ve never seen a more eager face!
He ate every bite he could, including
every;morsel;of;the;foods;he;didn’t;par-
ticularly;like.;He;might;scrunch;his;face
in;protest,;but;he;still;ate;everything;that
came;his;way.
