In her kindergarten class, my daughter and her friends are studying snails. They have become little experts on whorls (the swirl on a snail’s shell) and just about every other detail of snail living, and to celebrate, I got to spend an afternoon with them at school making a holiday take on lumace, snail pastries. […]
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The last time Abigail a.k.a. Mamatouille (and her oldest mini-chef son Matthew) blogged for us, they were living in Japan. Over the past year, they have come to America, with a small stint in the midwest with the in-laws to get their thoughts together and then with a more permanent move to Seattle. Judging by […]
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You have got to love New York. Just the other day, on my way home from running like three grazillion errands, I stopped into one of my favorite neighborhood bakeries to pick up a sandwich for lunch. While I was waiting for my order, the guy in front of me said, “Oh, that is my […]
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When I did a jamming and preserving demo at the Greenmarket last Wednesday, I had a lot of people coming by and asking what the difference between a sour and a regular cherry was. We had some sour cherries out for the people passing by to see and taste if they wanted. One neighborhood woman […]
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Have you ever tried a gooseberry? Before coming to New York and finding them at the farmer’s market on Union Square, I had only heard tell of them in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, where the “gooseberries [wallpaper] taste like gooseberries, and the schnozberries taste like schnozberries.” Still haven’t gotten to try a schnozberry… […]
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I'm a New York City mum of three children—Mira, 8, Liev, 6, and our littlest Yummy, Genevieve, 2. I teach mommies, preschool kids, and grade school age children (or "Yummies" as I like to call them) how to make delicious things. Read more…