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.
It’s election day and I live in a state without early voting, so everyone who is going to vote is doing it today. Like many Americans (and others who worry about the state of the world) I’m a little anxious. I may bake (that helps) and try to stay away from the news until tonight […]
Traditional Thanksgiving is an odd term, as pretty much the only things all Thanksgiving meals include are turkey and gravy. What is traditional at your house probably isn’t at your neighbor’s house. Most of us grew up eating the same things, or some variation on them year after year. Is there a typical American Thanksgiving? […]
The weather this week went from the 80’s to the 50’s literally overnight, so it time to turn on the oven and get baking. I made some amazing peanut butter cookies Friday, thanks Food 52. This week I roasted green beans, chicken and shrimp. This morning, I put on a cozy, I’m not planning to […]
Can you get all of summer in a bowl? Summer is salad season, and this deluxe version was just what I needed on this swelteringly hot weekend. I had to go out to run errands both Sunday and Saturday and both days fled home to my cool house. I am dreading my electric bill, but […]
The older I get the more I’m aware that life moves fast. When I was a teenager I often complained to my mother about how slowly time was crawling along, and that I’d never be a grown up. She warned me that once you become one, it all goes faster and faster, and as usual, she was right. […]