Amy Powell

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

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Falling For A Football Tailgate
Ah the sweet smell of fall. Kids are back in school, leaves are beginning to turn, and boyfriends are glued to the TV every Sunday and Monday night. At least it used to be just the boyfriends. Now it’s...


Mexican Melting Pot
Mexico City has just made my Top Ten List of favorite cities in the world. When I told people I was going to Mexico for a few days, they instantly thought of me and some crazy friends in Cancun making...


My Big Fat Greek Dinner
I've been eating a lot of Greek food lately. Maybe it's because I've recently discovered two fabulous Greek restaurants in my neighborhood on different ends of the Fancy Restaurant Spectrum. Maybe it's...


The Fig Is Your Just Desserts
Writing a column on meals that can be made in under 30 minutes always seems to come up dramatically short in one area of the meal: the end. Dessert, arguably the best and most memorable part of dinner,...


A Louisiana Labor Day
Dear US Government, Although certain decisions you have been making of late may be questionable at best, I would like to take this opportunity to recognize something you did correctly a long time ago....


Relief For The Pressure Cooker
I am a human pressure cooker. I mean literally, when I am under pressure or stress, what do I do? I cook. Some people do yoga, others golf, I cook. I do other forms of stress relief, for sure: run,...


Pretty Ugly Tomato
Men are not like tomatoes. I decided a long time ago that I could never date a man who did not fall into the “Live To Eat” category of individuals. When I made this statement to a friend I was dining...


From My Mother's Kitchen Garden
With four rambunctious children under tow, my mother may have been something of a Super Mom during my childhood. As a working mother, her efforts to run us kids between baseball and ballet practice while...


Cioppino: An Everyday Delight
There are at least four or five dear friends of mine who would stake claim to cioppino as his or her favorite food. And it is not just my friends, for I have more than once overheard a woman talk about...


Virgin (Olive Oil) Territory
“Got eevooo?” My brother asked. What?, I responded. “Got eevooo? You know, E.V.O.O.?” Ummm… right. He was teasing me, of course, knowing how I feel about the subject of oil, particularly...


Beet This Article!
A funny thing happens when you talk to people about a love-em-or-hate-em food such as beets. When you delve into it, into the passionate arguments for or against, you usually find that you're not actually...


Can't Stand the Heat? It's All Cool in the Kitchen
They tell me it has been unseasonably hot here in So Cal the last week. I wish I could confirm or deny that rumor, but sunstroke has left me a little delirious and thus my opinion can hardly be trusted....


A Shower Fresh Party
For some reason I was under the impression that career women these days were waiting until later in life to get married. Judging by the number of weddings I will be attending this summer involving some...


Pesto Perfect
I have a fantastic occasional-roommate/neighbor at the moment. �He is the sort of person that one probably would never expect to become friends with, is difficult to describe, and is impossible to forget....


Man and the Art of the Grill
Amidst the power tools and golf gear, every year around Father’s Day there's an abundance of advertisements for grills and their various accessories. I realize that most ad agency copywriting done in...


A Healthy Dose of Flavor
June has arrived. Summer is officially upon us. Time to pack away the sweaters and the wool and bring on the linen and bathing suits. Nothing to hide the pot belly and saddle bags anymore. It is time...