Covid Cooking Part IV: Succotash!!
After what seemed a really long wait, fresh Jersey corn finally showed up in the farmer's market around the third week in July. We being...
The Jersey Shore, Revisited
My mother, foreground, with her sister Barbara behind at the Jersey Shore. My sister Bonnie is in the foreground with foot raised; first...
Covid Cooking Part III, Weird Ingredients
Remember back several months ago, in the beginning of this pandemic when venturing to the grocery store was truly terrifying? And in...
Covid Cooking II: Trust Your Instincts!
Before it was interrupted by the Pandemic, I was taking a really fun cooking course at a place called Cookspace in Brooklyn. Run by a...
Covid Cooking
New York, hotspot of the Corona virus pandemic, dense, vibrant, complicated city that I love. Now reduced to a shadow of itself, facing...
'Tis the Season for Festivals, Pink Apples and Hunting Wild Boar
In addition to the abundance of the harvest, the fall season in rural Italy is a harbinger of many vaguely pagan festivals and...
Easiest One-Dish Meal
Here's a one-dish recipe that's great for company or a quick weekday solution when everyone's sick of doing dishes. I don't know about...
Olives and Grapes, Traveling Italy's East Coast
Our travels this summer and early fall took us from the north to the south of Italy. Up and down the whole of the country, the landscape...
My Italian Thanksgiving
Our Thanksgiving table I felt melancholy being abroad over the Thanksgiving holiday, so we expats took matters into our own hands and...
Nuts (And Other Phenomena of Nature)
We're in Le Marche for the entire autumn this year, able to experience all the nuances of fall-- fruit, grapes, figs, nuts. The earth...
