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.
Cooking is the sort of thing that is passed down in families, and rarely takes on anything as formal as cooking lessons. We cook the way our moms (or dads) cooked, and this goes way beyond technique, and a penchant for always using the same pan to roast the turkey. The way we cook has […]
We love our shrimp tacos, but you can make them with any fish or shellfish you like. Fish and shrimp tacos are so easy to make, and they are the kind of dish you can make to suit your taste or whatever your whim is today. The fish can be grilled, fried, sautéed, or broiled, […]
I don’t often write anything resembling a move review, but I just saw CHEF and I enjoyed it so much I changed my plans for today’s post. Here is my disclaimer, this is not a movie review per se, this is a post about how much and why I enjoyed this flawed but highly entertaining […]
In places like Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America they keep cool in the hot months with a refreshing beverage called Agua Fresca. This translates as fresh water, and is a cooling drink made by infusing cold water with pureed fruit. When I was in San Diego two summers ago one of our goals was to […]
When you’re cooking one of the things you should be paying attention to, but may not be, are the bubbles. When I learned to make scrambled eggs, and I mean as a kid, not when I was in culinary school, where making scrambled eggs is a whole other thing, but when my dad was showing […]