Amy Powell

Specialty: 30 Minute Meals
Education:French Culinary Institute, Cornell University
Lives: Manhattan

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To Kill a Cold, Awaken the Taste Buds
‘Tis the season: of sneezing, coughing, congestion, flu, and curling up for the weekend bemoaning the illness that has interfered with your social schedule. Behind the nasal-y voice, or total lack of...


First Cooking Principles in Sin City
Las Vegas: city of sin and, more recently, culinary playground for celebrated chefs from around the world. I recently spent a week working, eating, and playing in this unlikely food mecca. It was perhaps...


A Globally Warmed Winter Menu
According to certain members of Congress, global warming does not exist. At the moment, with Colorado residents dealing with their third major snowstorm in the last month, I have a feeling that many...


Detoxing From A Diet-Destroying Holiday Season
I love the holidays. But luckily for my liver (and kidneys and waistline and …), the holiday season lasts only for a few weeks a year. Holiday season 2006 was a doozy. It was one that may haunt my...


A New Breakfast Buffet For A New Year
There is something about watching a very big apple drop that causes Americans to plan big parties or big trips in anticipation of that life-changing moment when one Western Calendar year passes into the...


A Walk on the Wild Game Side
A turkey and some mistletoe may help to make the season bright, but avoiding the turkey doldrums on the holidays has to be one of the season’s more difficult tasks. And as most of us do not have an...


All I Want for Christmas is a Little Italy
Dear Santa: This year for Christmas, I want an Italian boyfriend. Not so much because of some Under-the-Tuscan-Sun daydream of a tall, dark and handsome man with an accent by my side, but more so I can...


Shopping at Home for a Holiday Party
Thanksgiving is over and the holiday season is in full swing. When I have people over this time of year, it is often done spontaneously. That means you can’t spend days preparing; what you serve needs...


Everything but the Turkey Gravy
By the time you read this, a few days will have passed since the joyous gathering of beloved and irritating relatives that is known as Thanksgiving. After 24 hours in a food coma, you probably woke up...


Interpretation and Tradition on Thanksgiving
There is this funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any holiday for that matter: it seems there is a constant battle between Tradition and Progression. There are two camps: one maintains the sanctity of...


Bacon and Butter Make Everything Better
Bacon and butter make everything better. This was the motto of the French Culinary Institute. Well, not officially, but any institution with “French” in the title might as well have this adage to...


Tapas For 3 Or 30
This week's installment comes with a warning: when announcing the meal plan for the evening, be sure to enunciate. Failure to do so could result in impressionable teenagers and men with selective hearing...


A Scary Treat That Your Kids Will Eat
I have to admit that writing holiday themed articles is not exactly my forte. In particular, writing about Halloween is especially frightening to me, and not for the reason you might think. Halloween...


Surfing the Wave of Island Fever
The earthquake that hit Hawaii last weekend was especially close to home. I had just returned from a week of island hopping for business less than a week before. One of my best friends was in her hometown...


A Different Toast, To Your Everyday Meal
A couple of years ago, a rather tired version of me decided to persevere through the fatigue to meet a friend for dinner at a New York steakhouse. I may have been falling asleep at the table, but I was...


The Kitchen Wanderer
The great thing about having a hobby (or in my case a passion) such as cooking is that your friends know what to give you for all those important gift-giving occasions, from birthdays, to Christmas, to...