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.
We are constantly bombarded with choices, so many that at times it seems what we choose hardly matters, but that’s not true, it has become more and more important to make good choices. We make choices when we turn on the box that delivers our television viewing, when we go online to shop, and every […]
My mother was one of the smartest people I’ve ever know, and that’s saying something, because I know some pretty smart people (you know who you are) and I learned a lot from her. Some things I learned because she drilled them into mine and my sibling’s heads on a regular basis, some through observation, […]
There is a certain allure to Chinese take-out. Movies and television shows are filled with images of conference and coffee tables littered with open, stained Chinese take-out food containers. The characters sit among a sea of these containers, digging in with chopsticks, and talking with their mouths full. In fact scenes like this pepper so […]
Chances are if you have kids they eat some type of chicken nuggets, perhaps under the golden arches, perhaps you buy some all-natural-organic nugget, but before you let your kid take one more bite I urge you to reconsider the source of that processed chicken. There are some things we eat (and by we I […]
My parents married when I was nine, and by way of an explanation in this age of people marrying after they have children, this was a second marriage for both of them. If I recall correctly, my dad served my (step) mother breakfast in bed every day of their marriage. This may sound really sweet, […]