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...