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.
We all have ghosts of Christmas past and most of them visit unexpectedly. Unlike the ghosts that visit Ebenezer Scrooge who is warned about their impending arrival, mine sneak up on me. The older I get the more Christmases I accumulate, and the more likely I am to be haunted by what was, or what might have been. I have […]
Christmas morning demands a special breakfast and these Christmas morning potatoes will delight everyone, including the cook, because you can get them ready a day or two ahead, and finish them off right before you want to eat them. These crispy nuggets of deliciousness are truly decadent, and though they’ll make your breakfast extra wonderful, […]
This has been an unseasonably warm weekend in Philadelphia; Saturday was in the high 60s, and Sunday reached 70° making it difficult to think about things like Christmas shopping and roasting vegetables. I’m quite sure it will get cold again, though the long-range forecast shows temperatures in the 40s and 50s through Christmas, and when temperatures […]
The gift of a chef’s coat is wonderful for many people. Last week we were cleaning out the offices at work, and having gone through a name change, the old chef’s coats are now obsolete, so I asked if I could take one for my daughter. When I gave it to her (before I even washed […]
Quiche is the kind of satisfying and easy meal you can throw together in practically no time. Making the crust takes the most time, but you can use a pre-made one (if you must) or keep a stack of your own in the freezer. A frozen crust will thaw in the time it takes you to […]