WE’RE BACK WITH ANOTHER INSTALLMENT OF FOOD YOU (STILL) DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH, IN WHICH YOU SEND ME YOUR CULINARY CONUNDRUMS AND MY SON, RUDY, AND I HANG OUT TOGETHER IN THE KITCHEN, TALK ABOUT STUFF AND TRY TO MAKE SOME SENSE OF THEM FOR YOU. Oh, Okra. We are all a little scared … Continue reading Okra!
In just over two months from now, this website will be fifteen years old. My first post, on August 5, 2008, entitled "Sustenance," introduced myself this way: I am a poet and essayist and have been working on a memoir about food and my father, who died sixteen years ago, for almost four years, plus … Continue reading Sustenance, Redux
My mother has been gone from this world two years today, so I took the day off and spent it in the garden. My new Blessed Mother statue, a late Mother's Day present from my husband, arrived appropriately today, just in time to replace the one that did not survive the winter. I placed her … Continue reading Our Lady of the Artichoke
Sheila squillante 