Nancy Lowell has spent a lifetime loving, eating, cooking, learning and reading about food. She has owned a small restaurant in Delaware County, New York, a catering business in New York City, worked for fifteen years for Whole Foods Market, and served Breakfast at Tiffany’s during her time working in corporate dining.
I saw this about twenty times on Face Book this week, and each time I laughed although I strenuously disagree, there is no such thing as the typical American Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving looks different throughout the USA. Though we’re almost all having turkey, that could be where the similarities end. I have spent years searching for […]
I was going to write about cookies today, but the news last night from Paris makes cookies seem beyond trivial, and writing about them makes me feel blind and deaf to the world around me. I sit in my quiet Philadelphia kitchen and feel worlds away from the horror taking place all over the planet, not […]
November 2nd is apparently Deviled Egg Day, and though that’s mighty exciting, and I like deviled eggs as much as anyone, I don’t know that I’d give them a whole day. When my daughter was in pre-school (and there were more pot-lucks than anyone should have to endure) I was the deviled egg mom. I […]
I don’t mean to complain or anything, but this isn’t easy, and sometimes, especially on Sundays I can feel like I’m up against the wall. I try to do a lot of the cooking for my posts on the weekends, and when things don’t go as planned I feel the pressure. This past one was a weekend […]
I am a little ashamed and need to unburden myself; I bought caponata, in a jar. I can make it, I have made it, in fact I’ve posted a recipe for it on this blog; a slow cooker caponata. Writing a food blog comes with a certain amount of pressure (albeit internal) to make things rather than buy […]