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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 • PAGE 11
Gesine’s New Confection
Popular Baker Returns With a Memoir
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esine Bullock-Prado, last seen in Montpelier as the proprietor of Gesine Confectionary on Elm Street, is returning to
town—but only for one night, and (sadly for her many devotees) she won’t be in the kitchen. Instead, she’ll be at Bear Pond
Books on September 29, promoting her memoir, Confections of a
Closet Master Baker. (Last December, she sold her Montpelier bakery to Jenn Toce and John Belding, who operate it as Birchgrove
Baking.)
Confections is an account of Gesine’s life, from an early childhood
in Austria (her father was an American military man, her mother a
German opera singer) through her years in Hollywood working for
her sister, the actress Sandra Bullock, to her personal reinvention as
a baker in central Vermont. Each chapter ends with a recipe from
Gesine’s own collection, including cream scones, sticky buns, opera
cake, and a traditional plum tart called zwetschgendatschi. One notable absence from the recipes: her famous macaroons. “I can’t give
up my lifeblood,” she writes. “What would be special about them
anymore, if the secrets . . . escaped?”
Gesine’s memoir is something of a mixed bag. For starters, it’s a
thin volume—barely cracking 200 pages, recipes included. It’s moving and insightful at times—particularly when she explores her very
personal connection to baking, which goes back to childhood memories of her maternal relatives in the kitchen. Other subjects are
skimmed over, leaving the impression that there are some aspects of
her life she hasn’t fully explored yet.
She also spends a fair amount of time airing complaints. Many of
her customers became friends, but a lot of them were offensive or
downright weird. Her brushes with fame, like the Food Network’s
visit to her bakery, are more pain than opportunity. And people are
constantly mispronouncing her name; whatever you do, don’t call
her “ja-ZEEN.” It’s a hard G, middle syllable “see,” and the final “neh”
expressed gently, as if exhaled rather than spoken.
At one point in the book, she calls Vermont “heaven” compared
to the self-absorbed bustle of Hollywood. The subtitle of her book is
One Woman’s Sweet Journey from Unhappy Hollywood Executive
to Contented Country Baker. But there’s an undertone of discontent. Her depiction of “Montpeculiar” is often affectionate, but also
laden with stereotypes: it’s something of a hippie haven, a place of
“deeply ingrained oddness,” where young people sometimes wander naked through downtown (I’ve missed that one) and some of the
town’s graybeards ogle her counter staff.
Still, there’s a lot to like in Confections. Gesine movingly recounts
how she rediscovered her love of baking after the death of her
mother; the depth of emotion that can be inspired by a simple plum
tart is a revelation. The recipes deliver the spirit of the baking art, as
well as the process. Perhaps my overall impression is too strongly affected by the ending, which has her living and working in Montpelier—when, in fact, we know that she sold the bakery and moved
on. It’s a Hollywood ending, not the real-life one.
In real life, by the way, Gesine spent some time in Austin, Texas,
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Rotary Youth Exchange
Building Bridges and Changing Lives
by Bettie Barnes
D
onna and Stuart Russo-Savage of Montpelier are losing one daughter and gaining another this fall. Their
daughter Delia is spending the academic year on a
Rotary Youth Exchange in Tehuacan (teh-wah-kahn), Mexico. Tehuacan, about 150 miles southeast of Mexico City, is
famous for its natural mineral springs, said to possess curative properties. While she is in Mexico, 17-year-old Giovanna
Veronezi Lopes da Fonseca will be living in Montpelier. Giovanna hails from Anapolis, the third largest city in Brazil. She
is the Montpelier Rotary Club’s exchange student this year.
She will live with the Russo-Savages and two other host families and attending Montpelier High School.
Rotary offers long- and short-term youth exchange programs for more than 8,000 young people each year. Longterm exchanges last an academic year; short-term exchanges
can last several days or weeks and often take place when
school is not in session. Host families can be Rotarians or
non-Rotarians, families with younger children, older children, or without children at all. The host Rotary club provides continual support: screening volunteers and host families, meeting the student on arrival, arranging enrollment
and tuition, and appointing a Rotarian counselor who maintains contact with the student and host families during the
exchange.
Suzanne Eikenberry, executive director of Montpelier
Alive, has long been involved in Rotary Youth Exchange. She
is serving as a counselor this year and has hosted two students and an exchange teacher in the past; she was also an
exchange student herself, spending a year in Denmark, and
her family once hosted a Swiss student.
Eikenberry’s Danish experience turned out happily, but it
almost ended before it began. Her host family, Lizzie and
Poul Anker, were an elderly couple with two adult children.
They had tried to host an exchange student when their children were still in high school, but the student backed out at
the last minute. Years later, when Eikenberry was looking
for a placement in Denmark, the Ankers were still on the list
of host families. When the Ankers received a call asking if
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Ursina Sattler Gosteli and host mother Pat Hechmer, at
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Photo courtesy of Suzanne Eikenberry.
think about it. Somehow the wires got crossed, and the exchange program told Eikenberry that the Ankers would be
her host family. Eikenberry wrote a letter to the Ankers,
which arrived on the same day Lizzie sent a letter to the exchange program, saying they were not interested in hosting.
But when Lizzie read Eikenberry’s enthusiastic letter, she
didn’t have the heart to turn her away. The Ankers agreed to
host Eikenberry for a couple of weeks until another host
family could be found—but, as Eikenberry recalls, “in the
end, we all got along so well that I stayed with them for the
rest of the year."
Last year, the Levine family of Middlesex hosted Kitty
Matheson from Denmark through American Field Service
(AFS). Michael Levine, a freelance writer, editor, and project
director, says that the decision about whether or not to host
a student should involve the whole family. The Levines’ son
had left for college the year before, and their daughter
didn’t want to be an only child. She welcomed the idea of
sharing their home with another student. AFS does offer onesemester programs, but Michael feels that the yearlong program is better. It takes about six months for the student to
become acclimated to a new country and environment.
Kitty’s involvement with lacrosse, soccer and skiing went a
long way toward building new friendships and helping her
to feel that she was a part of the community—not just the
exotic exchange student. Although the Levines are not hosting a student this year, several of their friends are hosting
students after seeing how well the exchange worked for the
Levine family.
Levine was amazed that AFS is an almost entirely volunteer
organization. Susan Cherry, the coordinator at the time for
northern Vermont and New Hampshire, had been volunteering with the organization for about 15 years. She interviewed every host family in person and spent an enormous
amount of time facilitating exchanges. She said the rewards
of seeing the kids at the beginning of their stay and then at
the end make it all worthwhile.
For Eikenberry’s family, the rewards of Rotary Youth Exchange have continued. They have formed a lasting relationship with the Swiss student they hosted, Ursina Sattler
Gosteli. Since her exchange year in 1990–91, Gosteli has
been back to the United States three times, and Eikenberry
has visited her family in Switzerland. The families have also
gone on vacation together. Gosteli ’s family came to Vermont this summer, in part to attend Eikenberry’s wedding.
For Eikenberry, the two most rewarding things about hosting an exchange student are developing lifelong friendships
and opening your mind to seeing and doing things differently. “The initial challenge,” she says, “is overcoming the inertia. People need to be willing to let someone into their
lives and homes, but the rewards are definitely worth it."
Bettie Barnes is doing an internship at The Bridge;
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 • PAGE 15
LETTERS
EDITORIAL
LETTERS
EDITORIAL
Helping Father Mike
Marital Mythology
S
ame-sex marriage became legal in the state of Vermont on September 1—just exactly a
month ago. We wondered if you’d noticed. It is a date that seems, with the exception of
an outside agitator or two, to have come and gone with barely a ripple. Have any marriages
that you know of lost their meaning as a result? Have churches toppled? Has the earth
stopped spinning on its axis? Though the lack of any apocalyptic signs may be boring, it is
not exactly surprising. It seems that marriage has historically come in all shapes and categories. Ours is only the latest redefinition of a rite that has been defined and redefined for
centuries.
There are many marital myths. To debunk some of them we suggest you turn to the work
of Vermont author and expert on the theology and history of marriage, Rev. John Morris, rector of St. Martin’s Church in Fairlee. His book, First Comes Love? The Ever-Changing Face
of Marriage, tells quite a story. Here are some bits and pieces.
Let’s start with “traditional marriage” in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
No such thing, says Morris. There have been many different traditions driven by everything from the power of politics to—most recently—the power of love. The institution of
marriage has changed in all sorts of ways during the past 4,000 years.
Much of this conversation seems to begin with the Bible, so we will too.
According to Morris, you can point to various models for marriage which have substantial
Biblical support, enough that any argument for our traditional definition as the one chosen
path is just plain insupportable. Endogamy, for instance, is one Biblical model. That’s keeping marriage within your own tribe or ethnic group. Arranged marriage is a common Biblical practice, often primarily about the transfer of property—often including the bride—or
power. This sort of marital alliance was the standard of the rich and powerful for centuries.
But perhaps the most common Biblical marriage model is polygamy—always one man with
multiple wives. There are many patriarchal forms of marriage in the Bible—especially in
texts that reflect the traditions of the patriarchal cultures from which they emerged—but,
just to further confuse matters, Morris points out that there is also good scriptural evidence
for equality within marriage and in society.
He addresses our myths about divorce as well.
Morris maintains that there are more long-term marriages today than at any time in history.
The twist here is all about life expectancy. Though the divorce rate may be high, we are all
living longer. So, even factoring in divorce, there are more long-term marriages than ever
before.
How about the assumption that the more religious we are the more committed we are?
Not apparently, says Morris. Let’s compare the apparent extremes. Beginning with bornagain Christians—the staunchest defenders of “traditional” marriage—and comparing them
to atheists and agnostics, it seems that there isn’t a lot of difference. Thirty-five percent of
born-again Christians have divorced in this country as opposed to 37 percent of atheists and
agnostics. Twenty-three percent of born-again Christians have divorced twice.
And what about all this cohabiting without a piece of marital paper?
According to Morris, the number of couples living together and even having children without a formal marriage is nothing new. In addition, for the first thousand years of its existence,
the church held that a marriage was valid if a couple claimed they had exchanged words of
consent—even if there were no witnesses or officiants.
And then there is love.
Over the sweep of history there have been many reasons for marriage. The notion of romance as the primary consideration is, in fact, the most recent development. Very nice, this
“first comes love” stuff, but not all that historically significant in the marriage business.
So now we have same-sex marriage, a change that is nothing more than a recognition of
relationships with a tradition as old as any cited here. One couple we talked to thought that
because they had had a civil union some years ago their marriage would not be such a big
deal. They planned a simple private ceremony. But afterwards, they gradually felt a significant difference, a sense of belonging, a completeness they had not quite felt before.
“Hey Linda, say hi to the wife,” were the parting words in a telephone call with those folks
the other day.
All right. A touch of the jocular.
And it takes a little getting used to.
But it felt just fine.
—PTM
To the Editor:
Here’s something we can do to help a man
who has done so much to help people in
need in this community. We are talking
about Father Mike at St. Augustine’s Church
in Montpelier, who has helped people in innumerable ways. He takes food to people
who don’t have food. He finds a place for
homeless veterans to sleep. If someone
needs to do their laundry, he will give them
money for that. If they need an overnight
motel room, he makes that possible.
And now, we feel, it’s time to help out Father Mike. Here’s the situation. Over the past
several years the stairway in front of the St.
Augustine’s Parish House has fallen into disrepair and the steps have crumbled. Father
Mike has been told that repairing these steps
could cost as much as $30,000.
Couldn’t a local contracting company contribute their time or services to repair these
steps? Or couldn’t some of us in the Montpelier community make a donation to this cause?
I have never seen Father Mike refuse anyone who really needs help. Last winter he
provided shelter to homeless veterans in
town. He gives communion services at Pioneer Apartments, Central Vermont Medical
Center, and at nearby nursing homes. He
never stops helping people in need.
If you would like to help repair the Parish
House steps, please mail a donation to: Father Mike Augustinowitz, 16 Barre Street,
Montpelier, VT 05602.
Thanks for your help.
Dorothy Phillips and Carlos Shaw,
Montpelier
Sharing, Not Merging
To the Editor:
I am surprised at the media’s misrepresentation of (or maybe an overreaction to) a
simple letter inquiring about a possible collaboration between Montpelier and U-32.
Headlines in both The Bridge and the Times
Argus contained the word “merger.” The
idea of merging the two schools was the primary focus of each article.
There are many ways Montpelier and U-32
can share resources, expand opportunities
for students and perhaps save the taxpayers
money, but there needs to be much dialog
ueand planning (probably years’ worth) between the two schools and the six communities. I hope and believe we can find many
ways to share the best aspects of our schools
and communities. However, reading recent
articles one would believe that a merger is
imminent. Such beliefs would be very premature. The Montpelier board only discussed moving forward with an exploration
in which, for the first time in years, both
school boards have a real interest.
Sue Aldrich,
Montpelier School Commissioner
Lost Horizons
To the Editor:
I love The Bridge. I read it religiously each
week. I am distressed, however, to see that
you have taken out the Horizons section. I
know you have to cut down for economic
reasons, but can’t you do it somewhere else
and keep the section focused on the arts and
theater? Montpelier has so much in the way
of art and theater that it seems too important
an area to drop. It’s so unfortunate that
whenever budget cuts happen, it’s always
the arts that get the chopping block.
Thank you for producing such a wonderful paper. If more people would subscribe,
I’m sure it would make a difference to you
economically. I am not a subscriber at this
time, but intend to become one. It would be
such a loss to our community if The Bridge
were not on the street every Thursday informing us all of what’s going on in Montpelier that week.
I hope you will consider reinstating the
Horizons section, if not every week, then
once in a while, and I hope more readers
will become subscribers.
Carol Kendrick, Montpelier
Send us your letters!
E-mail [email protected].
(300 words or less, please. Our deadline is Monday.)
Correction: Congressman Joe Wilson was referred to variously in our editorial last
week. The fact that he has been called many colorful things in the last three weeks
does not excuse our mistaken reference to him as “Jim” in the final paragraph. Apologies to all, including, I suppose, Congressman Wilson.
—P.T.M.
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