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 like kale more in theory than in practice, but lately I’ve been making kale salads that are winning (even) me over. No matter what type of kale I use, I remove the stems, tear or chop it and blanch it to a brilliant green. I like to dry it well either in a salad spinner, or […]
Go to almost any Italian restaurant in the United States and no matter the season you’ll likely find some iteration of pasta primavera. In fact if you were born after 1980 you have no recollection of a world without it, but like many other dishes attributed to Italy, Primavera is a modern dish conceived in […]
I have been staring at my waffle iron since I got it, “Wanna Waffle?” it taunts me. Yes, I do, but I really need to get the whole waffle concept, and I’m a bit ashamed to admit it, I needed to take a bit of a scientific approach. I Googled, I searched, I read, I […]
If you call could a potato hot, this dish would definitely qualify as a hot potato! Decadent, cheesy, and if such a thing is possible for a potato in your world, sexy. I have seen this recently on the Best Thing I Ever Made, and then again somewhere else, and I decided I needed to try that […]
Just the other day I was reminiscing with a friend about the department store restaurants that were ubiquitous in our youth. Almost every department store had at least one restaurant and some had a lunch counter as well. These were sit-down restaurants with real china, cloth napkins, and as a kid I always felt very […]