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.
Roasted tomatoes are as beautiful as they are delicious, and you can put them into almost anything. If you are lucky enough to have a garden with sun (sadly I do not) and find yourself with too many tomatoes, roasting them is a great way to keep that summer flavor into the winter. For roasting […]
It seems everywhere I turn people are tolling summer’s death knell, but as long as I can still get fresh corn, peaches and tomatoes, I know there’s still some summer left. Yes, my daughter has gone back to school, and I’m optimistic that by Sunday I’ll be able to turn my AC off for the […]
This week the chef and her staff photographer are heading to the beach for some fun in the sun! I have never done this before, but The Chef’s Last Diet will be taking a brief vacation. While I’m away I’ll be investigating and sampling food, and looking for inspiration for future projects. I hope […]
Keeping my promise, here is another recipe using leftover corn, and this is another favorite—corn fritters. If you search online you will find a lot of different interpretations of corn fritters. They range from a batter dropped into a deep fryer and cooked like a zeppole, to throwing some corn into your pancake batter and […]
If the last time you had creamed corn was from a can, July is the perfect month to make some real creamed corn, and forget that junk! I have always loved creamed corn, and then while visiting a good friend sat I down with his copy of Thomas Keller’s amazing and wonderful Ad Hoc at Home, […]