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.
Day one of our Pennsylvania road trip is coming to a close and it was a good day. Not so bright and early Tuesday we started at Knead Bagels in Philadelphia, because you have to have breakfast out when you start a trip, even if that means a crappy meal at McDonald’s in the airport, […]
I have nothing against pecan, pumpkin or apple pie, but summer pie is the pie I love best. Soft stone fruit and berries are sweet and luscious and extra good baked in a buttery crust. I can’t say I have a favorite one, in fact I like to mix it up and toss some blueberries […]
Travel and food, especially new food have always been intertwined for me. When I embarked on a yoga retreat to Bali I was excited about eating Indonesian food, though I wasn’t quite sure what that would be. The only Indonesian food I’d heard of was rijstaffel, which is really Dutch. Before the trip, as part of […]
My first job after graduating from culinary school was feeding the (future) clergy at The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church (as it is formally known). GTS (as it is otherwise known) takes up a full square block of Manhattan real estate in Chelsea. It is a beautiful place, and if you get a chance you should […]
It’s summer and crab cakes are an iconic summer dish, so off I went to buy some crabmeat and share the recipe with you. The first store I went to had crab in a can in the fish case, and it was on sale for $16.99; a steal! I asked the man behind the […]