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 can’t believe I’ve never written a post about my favorite kitchen tools. You might think I have a kitchen jammed with tools, gadgets and assorted doo dads but my favorite kitchen tools are simple and get lots of use. I am not a fan of single purpose tools, so […]
Bacon continues to dominate the world, and though I am still a fan, though I have found a replacement and pecans are my new bacon. I seem to be adding them to everything, and everything I add them to is better for it. Toasted pecans (and you must toast them) add flavor, texture and depth to foods. They’re […]
I have a food blog, and for the past month I have been not been cooking. Oh sure, I have cooked a few things, some cauliflower soup, a roasted chicken, and last week I made some macaroni and cheese and used smoked cheese, but nothing I was even moved to photograph or make notes about. I write […]
If there has been one constant in my life, it has surely been my appetite. Each day I’d wake to the insistent rumblings in my stomach and my daily battle would begin. Would my appetite for yummy, fatty or sweet indulgences win, or would I quell my hunger with something more wholesome and healthy? On […]
Left to my own devices, especially when I am feeling busy (don’t you detest that word?) I could conceivably eat chicken for dinner every night. Fortunately for me my daughter doesn’t eat chicken, beef or pork, so whether I feel like it or not, I must come up with something besides chicken for dinner. We often default to pasta, […]