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.
Anyone who knows me is aware that I’m not the best housekeeper, though I am usually diligent about doing the dishes. I like to leave the kitchen in order, so I wash all the pots and pans and load the dishwasher before going to bed. I make sure when I come down in the morning I won’t […]
I didn’t grow up eating mashed potatoes, and when I tell people that my family has never had mashed potatoes for Thanksgiving they are always shocked. I think ours may be the only family in the USA that will not be eating mashed potatoes two weeks from today. I wouldn’t say we never ate them, but it wasn’t […]
Most people crave a certain level of order in their life, but in reality not much is linear. When things aren’t going the way I expect them to I often resort to my fill in the blank mantra of ______ isn’t linear. Most recently I’ve been repeating to myself and others who ask about my recovery, ‘Well, […]
In the past few weeks I’ve been complaining writing about my new issues with food, particularly my lack of appetite, and lack of interest in cooking, but rather than sit idly by, I decided to make myself a great sandwich, and a sandwich is a start. This was no ordinary sandwich though; I was going […]
November 8th is Cook Something Bold Day a holiday made up created by the folks over at wellcat.com. This is a direct quote from their site: According to it’s creator, Wellcat.com, Cook Something Bold Day is designed to encourage us to cook something bold and daring, that will fill up the house with warm, “homey” odors. It is […]