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.
Happy Hanukkah! Whether you’re celebrating or not, you’re going to love these latkes! There are as many opinions about what makes a good latke as there are about matzoh balls, but I have never met anyone who didn’t love them! Even if you won’t be celebrating, if you have never tried one, it’s time. They […]
“Over the river and through the woods, to Grandmother’s house we go…” There are other Thanksgiving songs, but this one is the one that conjures up images of the many Thanksgivings we spent at my parents’ house in the Berkshires. It was a journey for all of us, and the drive from Philadelphia included crossing […]
Left to my own devices, especially when I am feeling busy (don’t you detest that word?) I could conceivably eat chicken for dinner every night. Fortunately for me my daughter doesn’t eat chicken, beef or pork, so whether I feel like it or not, I must come up with something besides chicken for dinner. We often default to pasta, […]
I don’t mean to complain or anything, but this isn’t easy, and sometimes, especially on Sundays I can feel like I’m up against the wall. I try to do a lot of the cooking for my posts on the weekends, and when things don’t go as planned I feel the pressure. This past one was a weekend […]
Last Fall when I attended Natural Foods Expo East I got a press bag filled with fun stuff, including Pure PB from Crazy Richard’s and I’ll confess it got forgotten in the back of my pantry, until I was sent a jar of Crazy Richard’s crunchy peanut butter to cook with and blog about. Now I am going peanuts […]