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.
The top of my Settlement Cookbook is imprinted with the phrase “The way to a man’s heart…” The full quote is ‘the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach’ and is an old English proverb. I’m not sure how it happened, but all evidence to the contrary I stubbornly cling to this notion. […]
Several years ago I got a teabag with a message on the tag; Even monkeys fall out of trees, and I laughed out loud! I think I kept that little tag for years, I may still have it somewhere. It’s a phrase I repeat to myself often and in all kinds of circumstances. Yes, we’re […]
It’s November, and once again I’m participating in another Yeah Write writing challenge. If you’ve been a long-time reader (at least a year) you know that last November I participated in a writing challenge that involved writing a post every single day during the month of November (yes, all the days, even Thanksgiving). There were […]
Pan roasted; just saying it makes me want whatever is going into that pan. Pan roasting evokes warmth, and comfort, texture and depth. I am a huge fan of pan roasting, and the cold weather, and the seasonal produce are a perfect match for this easy and aromatic technique. Lately I have made […]
It is a shame that boneless-skinless chicken breasts are the go-to chicken for most people, rather than the far superior (in my estimation) bone-in, skin on,chicken thighs. I think there are a number of reasons for this, and none of them have anything to do with flavor. Some people can’t deal with chicken bones (or […]