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.
When I am at the mall, or a museum and I have to pee I don’t have to think about where I belong, or who I am, or how I am seen by the other people. I wait in line like all the other women, who also need to pee (right now) and step into […]
I cook fish almost every week, so why are there so few recipes here at CLD? Almost everyone I know feels a little nervous to cook fish properly, including me. Who am I to offer cooking tips on something I don’t feel expert at? To answer that question let’s talk a little about my (easy) rules for fish preparation. Keep […]
For most of the last year my daughter and I have been watching the Gilmore Girls, and last week we started the final season. Of course we’re excited about the new episodes slated to air later this year on Netflix, but we’re sad about reaching the end of something that has become an important part of our mother-daughter conversation. […]
It’s spring, and it finally feels like it (after that week or so tease in March) and Fresh Direct *was offering a deal on wild, spring ramps this week so I thought I’d ramp it up. I am embarrassed to admit I’ve never cooked with ramps before, and my planning for their arrival was typically […]
One of my favorite poems is Elizabeth Bishop’s One Art, a lesson on lost things. For me there have been many things, places and people dropped or misplaced long before I noticed their absence as well as those lost suddenly, leaving rough, tender places that I had to protect. I clearly recall the moment I lost my […]