My first job was picking tomatoes on a small, family run farm in my hometown of Basking Ridge, New Jersey. The farmer was a funny old man with big, bushy white eyebrows and dark, deeply wrinkled skin, weathered from years
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I was lucky enough to attend graduate school in Italy, at the University of Gastronomic Sciences (UniSG), associated with the International Slow Food Movement. Slow food is a movement against fast food but I didn’t go all the way to
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I have relocated every year for the past eight years: New Jersey to Georgia to Washington state to Kentucky to North Carolina to Piedmont, Italy to Rome, Italy to Los Angeles and now New York City. My current home is very
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I was totally addicted to pea and cheese salad when lived in the south sound area of Washington state. It’s not because it’s a dish of the region (the origin of this dish is Southern I think- I couldn’t find
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The other morning I was rushing out the door to go to work, and as I reached for my keys in pocketbook, I spilled a little of the coffee I was holding on the carpet. So, I went back in
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