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 have caught jam fever, and spent several hours making my first tomato jam! Thanks to Marisa McClellan of Food in Jars, I am now entering a new realm of cooking; I am putting things by. I know I haven’t made a lot […]
Saffron is one of my favorite spices, it is also the most expensive spice in the world, so I use it sparingly. You can find recipes using it from across the globe, and amazingly enough despite their reputation for being plain and thrifty, the Pennsylvania Dutch love saffron and use it in both sweet and […]
I don’t know what I was thinking, I probably wasn’t thinking at all, but on Sunday I decided to make my debut in canning by making pickled beets and lemon curd in one afternoon! I owe this inspiration to my recent meeting with Marisa McClellan author of the blog and cookbook Food in Jars . I saw […]
Because I love to cook so much, it doesn’t take much to get me in the mood to do it. I woke up this morning and, as I usually do I checked the outside temperature and it was 67°! I went around the house opening windows and turned off my central air conditioning. The main […]
When I was growing up my dad, who had a penchant for telling Catskill’s jokes used to repeat a joke I believe was attributed to Sam Levinson, the joke went something like this, ‘My whole life all my mother served was leftovers, but no one ever found the original meal’. Last Friday I was watching […]