: About Me

Currently writing a cookbook, I am also finishing up three articles about food, written from different angles, for a proposed food column in our local newspaper. It doesn't have one.

The minute I started, I felt as if I had arrived, as at home with my subject as in my kitchen kneading bread or icing a genoise. Why didn't I think of this before? I have experienced and expressed my share of wisdom and folly, fortunately having become more wise than foolish for the experience.

I have never thought of writing as work, unless it was something I had to do for a class. It's like breathing, or brushing one's teeth, the latter being the class work. It has never occurred to me not to write.

I have always written, it seems. Mostly short stories and poems, simply because they pop into my head and nag at me until I put them down, as I imagine the thoughts of a mathematician needing to solve a problem, or a painter having to put the vision on canvas. Otherwise I get rather testy. I have entered contests for years without winning anything. But I feel the experience has made me less timid to put my name out there.

My passion is ...

language

I know too much about ...

not much

My parents always told me ...

Give 100%-always-and don't forget to laugh!

My childhood ambition ...

to become a pastry chef

Why I write ...

I can't not

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

American Food Writing (anthology) and Alexander Dumas

My first job ...

picking berries

My inspiration ...

My husband, and Julia

Food & Drink > Dairy & Eggs Recipes: Breakfast & brunch recipes

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Breakfast/brunch For years my mom made an egg dish for holidays. Mainly on Christmas and Easter. We would have "brunch," so-called because it was breakfast and lunch together. Technically we would have already "broken our fast" with coffee, cookies, pastries, fruit-whatever family members had brought to the gathering to snack on so we wouldn't go hungry before the main meal. Of course, those items on platters and in pretty dishes were also what we snacked on after the main meal when we were too full to eat anymore of the substantial stuff, like eggs and ham and bacon and English muffins! T...

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