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 recall living in Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn, and going to the Middle Eastern restaurants on Atlantic Avenue to have chicken bisteeya. It is a marvelous dish, and one I haven’t made at home before. Though it isn’t difficult, it is time consuming and working with filo dough can be challenging. If you’re not familiar […]
Pollo à la brasa is a Peruvian style of rotisserie chicken that you can get all over Washington, D.C. and New York City, but is not very widely available here in Philadelphia. There are two places I found listed, but they are far from me and fairly inconvenient to get to, and two places not too […]
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 […]
In 2013 quinoa was named International Grain of the Year by the United Nations, but by then our worship of it was in full swing . I was surprised to find a number of recipes for it in the New York Times from December 31, 1969, and mention of it as far back as the […]
It’s March 3rd, and we’re having what I hope will be the last snow day of this winter, as we welcome March! Spring starts in a few weeks, both my daughter and I celebrate birthdays in March, and, as I’ve mentioned before, March will be a month devoted to Chicken, Quinoa and Kale, so […]