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.
Everyone is looking for recipes for dinner in under thirty minutes. I know when I get home speed is paramount, and impacts my mood for the evening. Planning is great, but if you’re like me you don’t do enough of it. Many of my quick, on the table in less than thirty minute meals are […]
You know those Szechuan green beans you get at Whole Foods Market, or at a Chinese Restaurant? They’re wrinkly and soft, but not overcooked. They’re so good you could eat them all day, every day, but you can’t seem to make them at home. Here is why; they’re blanched in the deep fryer. Yep, they […]
There are all sorts of ways to bake with summer fruits; pies, crisps, cobblers, and the buckle. They are all slightly different, and every one showcases the sweet, juicy deliciousness of summer’s bounty. The other day I got a case of white nectarines, which is a pretty irresponsible thing for a single person to do. […]
Any matchmaker will tell you it takes some trial and error to get a match just right. They’ll also tell you that sometimes it is an unlikely or unusual match that will surprise everyone when it works. I have never taken on matching up people but I love doing it with food. This weekend I […]
A while ago I wrote about my blue notebook and my inability to find it, and this weekend I found it. I found it between two larger books and had been pushed far enough back in the bookshelf that I couldn’t see it in my several spine searches. As with most things we’re searching for, I found […]