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.
Don’t worry, I’m fine In the last month (give or take a few days) I’ve had two occasions to don a hospital gown. Most women wear them a few times a year for anything from mammograms to visits to sundry doctors’ offices we routinely visit. Wearing a hospital gown is rarely noteworthy but in a […]
Thanksgiving 2020 style Like most of you (I hope) this year I’ll be having a little Thanksgiving. And by little I mean dinner for two; my brother and me. In my entire life, this will be the second Thanksgiving I haven’t spent with my family. Each of my sisters will also be holding a little […]
Homesick for no one Though it’s beautiful here, as the leaves turn color and I drive by apple trees laden with fruit, I am singing the homesick blues. I haven’t felt this kind of homesickness since I was a kid at camp. The strangest part of it is that there is no one at home […]
Do I need a cognitive test? The current POTUS claimed proudly that he was able to repeat a sequence of five words; person, woman, man, camera, TV, and boasted about getting extra credit for repeating them in order. I sincerely doubt that those somewhat related words were the five he was asked to recall, but […]
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 […]