ONE MAN’S KITCHEN
Oh-so-tasty sausages and peppers VINCE PUCCI
My parents did not camp, probably for the same reason
poor people do not buy antiques: everything poor people own is antique. We were immigrants in the early 50s from a small
village in Southern Italy. The village had no hydro, and cooking with firewood was all they knew. When our family immigrated to Kelowna, B.C., we had a wood stove. So my mother never had the luxury of an electric stove until sometime in the 60s. When I was about 11 or 12 years old, I cut many a pile of kindling wood. Although I have camped a few times in my lifetime, I
am not – perhaps like my parents – a camping enthusiast. The other luxury we did not have in the early 50s, in
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rural Kelowna, was indoor plumbing. We had a water pump outside and an outhouse for a toilet. I used to be petrified to
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