Market Life in Florence and Rome
The weather in Italy was sunny, warm, and clear. I might have spent my time learning about the country’s culture by church- and museum-hopping, taking in religion, art and history, putting all these… Read More
Esther Maurini suggested we meet near the Circo Massimo at the front steps of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s headquarters. I had walked across central Rome to reach the ruins of the ancient… Read More
At one time in my life, I collected cookbooks with the same zeal I had once reserved for Partridge Family trading cards, bought and hoarded at the tender ages of nine and ten.… Read More
When Lisa Sutton first approached Amesbury’s health and building inspectors with her proposal for establishing a shared-use commercial kitchen in one of the city’s first and most successfully renovated former mill buildings, both… Read More
Food and fiction live side by side in the March 18 issue of The New Yorker, and what a welcome issue this is. Talking food, the magazine’s columnist, Jane Kramer, reviews Consider the… Read More
Baked Alaska, one of the most popular desserts to grace banquet tables in the 1960s and early 1970s, is a show stopper, and for good reason. Just imagine the looks on diners’ faces… Read More
Birthday cake is nice. Miles of windy wintery beach all to ourselves even better. This is Nantucket in the off-season, pure New England, a place to celebrate the year behind and the year… Read More
My husband doesn’t really remember when he first had chestnut cake as a birthday cake, but I remember when I first tasted it. It was late January in 1985. John and I weren’t… Read More
For the third time in seven years, my oven has died. Unlike times one and two, though, this was no simple fix, no swapping a blown ignitor for a new and functioning one.… Read More
“Sober” refers to temperance or moderation, usually regarding alcohol consumption but not always. In the days following the holiday season, I have tried at least once a week to lighten our evening meals… Read More
This should be a birthday cake post. But the beginnings of the “cake” have been shelved in the freezer, awaiting a meeting of the minds on whether or not to celebrate. You may… Read More
I’m deep in book revisions, reorganizing start to finish what I thought might be a completed manuscript. Well, it was and it wasn’t. Midway through my edits I realized the book would read… Read More
Last Saturday night, we gathered around the warm stove, three of my oldest friends and one of the newest, all of us with our husbands. My daughter was home and she joined us.… Read More
In the midst of puppy mayhem and holiday madness, I am revising the manuscript of my third book. Well, that’s what the array of papers strewn across the dining room table would suggest… Read More
