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.
I have been doing a lot of no cooking lately, and that’s a big challenge when you write a food blog. It all began a few months ago when my appetite deserted me, and that’s become my new normal. I have ideas about things to cook; I’ve been planning a post about making a deconstructed stuffed […]
A few years ago I would have assured you (and myself) that I possessed great resilience; I would have stated it unequivocally and categorically. I had evidence of my deep and enduring strength and fortitude. I was not only a survivor; I was a victor, not a victim. My disdain for those who played victim* […]
I’ve been re-reading You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero and in talking about gratitude she suggests that no matter what happens, no matter how great something is, or how much it sucks, or hurts my feelings, or inconveniences me it will benefit me to say to myself “This is good because _________”. Easy enough when things […]
Today is the last day of November, and the final day of the Yeah Write November blog challenge. No doubt you’ve noticed I’ve been posting daily. I don’t know if I could have completed this challenge if I hadn’t had the month off from work, but I did, and had the time to write daily. […]
I try to get each post written the day before it goes out, but here I am, late again. We got home from my sister’s house last night, and though it wasn’t late we were exhausted. The drive was about three hours, and traffic wasn’t bad (I think you’re allowed to say that after you’ve […]