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.
In 2013 quinoa was named International Grain of the Year by the United Nations, but by then our worship of it was in full swing . I was surprised to find a number of recipes for it in the New York Times from December 31, 1969, and mention of it as far back as the […]
It’s March 3rd, and we’re having what I hope will be the last snow day of this winter, as we welcome March! Spring starts in a few weeks, both my daughter and I celebrate birthdays in March, and, as I’ve mentioned before, March will be a month devoted to Chicken, Quinoa and Kale, so […]
Like most people my age, I learned to read so I could read Dr. Seuss’ books including “Green Eggs and Ham” a classic, though not my favorite which is “If I Ran the Circus”. Green Eggs seems to have been written for picky eaters, to cajole them into trying something that just seems too yucky […]
Here are five dinners you can make in a flash! Before you gather everyone up to go out for dinner, before you pick up the phone to call for pizza or Chinese food delivery, stop, take a deep breath and take look in your pantry, I bet you have the makings of at least two […]
My parents married when I was nine, and by way of an explanation in this age of people marrying after they have children, this was a second marriage for both of them. If I recall correctly, my dad served my (step) mother breakfast in bed every day of their marriage. This may sound really sweet, […]