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.
Autumn in New York Autumn in New York should be gorgeous, which is nice because that’s where I’ll be spending it this year. You are probably almost as surprised as I was to discover this. Then again, we are past the time of shock and surprise. We’re now in the era of everything changes faster […]
A fleeting glimpse As I pass the restaurant, from the corner of my eye I catch sight of a woman in a straw hat. When I turn my head and see her hat, glasses, and mask, she seems both alien and familiar. She looks old, well, older. It’s a hot day. I feel the heat […]
Hoping and dreading Last week I got the email with the best worst news I’ve been awaiting. Or was it the worst best news? The university where I work(ed) is reopening for the fall semester, and I will return to work in August. Yeah! Oh. What do you want first? The good news or the […]
I’m not a fan I hear there are people who love that new car smell so much they buy air freshener that mimics it. I’m not a fan. Nevertheless, back in the time before, I was planning to buy a new car. It’s been quite a while since I dared to consider such a purchase, […]
How can I write when the world is on fire? There is the non-stop noise of helicopters through my windows, how can I write? My country is on fire, and the President is spreading gasoline, how can I write? People are succumbing by the thousands to a pandemic that ravages communities in disproportionate, direct, and […]