Hi Everyone, To all my readers in the Nutmeg State, I will be appearing at RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT, Monday evening June 15, with fellow memoirist, Giullia Melucci. Later that same week, on Saturday June 20, at 2 pm, I will also be at the Yale Barnes and Noble. Both events are free […]

Do you know Sarah McColl? She is the author of the exquisite blog Pink of Perfection. Her blog has a little bit of everything: food, crafting, shopping, and living, all written in Sarah’s breezy style. Well, she was nice and enough to do a profile about me. I answered a few of her thought-provoking questions, […]

I realize that I remain rather anonymous to all of my blog readers– well, no more! Yesterday I did a segment on Connecticut Style, a local show that airs from WTNH, the local ABC affiliate, right here in New Haven. Now you all know that Connecticut is highly regarded for its style…Christmas sweater anyone? I’m […]

February 10th will forever be a birthday of sorts. The birthday of my book. What does one do in celebration? Surely it will be different than birthday parties of yore, with the meal of my choosing, a round of duck-duck-goose, and an angel food birthday cake heaped with clouds of loosely whipped cream. A birthday […]

The drop date for the book is quickly approaching. I can hardly believe it is almost here! I have started a Cooking and Screaming web page to let all of you know what’s new with the book. (As it turns out, that page is pretty barren now, but more is surely to come.) In the […]

No, this is not simply a forgetful phrase uttered to myself one too many times. It is also a name of a new book, edited by Andrea Buchanan of which I was honored to be a part. Speaking with Andrea, she told me a little bit about her project. It was a collection of personal […]

And by this I mean: I don’t know how I got invited to a Martha Stewart event, but I did. Way up on the the 36th floor of some giant midtown skyscraper, there I stood with about 60 other people, some of them Martha’s minions, to celebrate Martha’s new interview show on Sirius Satellite Radio. […]

Back in September I entered a contest through Food and Wine Magazine. It was a an online, food photo contest. So I sent off one of my favorite pictures from this site, a picture of a frozen treat, cooling yoghurt and strawberry pops. Made back in July, they were some of the last confections put […]