Amy Powell
Specialty: 30 Minute Meals
Education:French Culinary Institute, Cornell University
Lives: Manhattan
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Balancing Healthy Food and Happy Families
An old college friend of mine is a young mother of four children, all below the age of seven. It goes without saying that, among our group of friends from the old days, we hardly see her. Such is the...
Cupcake Vs. Muffin: Making the Case for Team Muffin
A friend of mine, Adam Weiss, engaged his twitter followers in the age-old debate: if a cupcake and a muffin were to get into a fight, who would win? Well, maybe that wasn’t exactly his proposition;...
Delicious Plan B
You know that saying, "Can't always get what you want?" That seems to happen to me, often, when at the grocery store. Maybe I’ve been looking through a cookbook and I'll see a fabulous looking recipe...
Delicious Dining For Tight Times
That these continue to be tough economic times for many Americans is no question. Even for those of us lucky enough to have the security of a roof over our heads with a rent or mortgage we can afford...
A Fall Calling For Composed Salads
Salads are in order at all times of the year. Winter calls for hearty greens mixed with roasted root vegetables. Spring brings baby lettuce tossed with artichokes, peas, and asparagus. Summer is a fool’s...
Meatball Mondays
Somewhere in America today a child is reading a book and praying that tomorrow night the sky opens up and starts raining spaghetti and meatballs. The classic children’s story of a town whose residents...
A Meal Worth Coming Home To
Ah, September. Vacations are over, summer homes are locked up, children are back in school. For me, September means the end of wild summer travels, a new home in New York City, and a return to a semblance...
Long Weekends Lead to Kitchen Adventures
Long weekends are made for cooking something new. On weeknights it can seem risky to venture outside the cooking comfort zone. Well-known and loved pastas and chicken dishes are safer fare for a hungry...
Healthy Hiker Diet
My legs are aching but my stomach is not. I have been in Switzerland for several days now living out my Alpine hiker fantasies along with my boyfriend. We are staying at a friend's ski chalet, for our...
Camp Cooking In The African Bush
For the past two weeks I have been living out of a car. Not just any car, a gold Toyota Corolla packed to the steel frame of its capacity with luggage, camping gear, and food for a two-week journey. ...
Street Food Made Simple, Part II
Eating street food in Asia it is easy to wonder how so much good food can be made so quickly. Not all street foods are easy to make at home. Some equipment like super hot gas flames or open charcoal...
Street Food Made Simple, Part I
Imagine driving down the main street of your town. As you drive you pass the bright lights of the many fast food restaurants that beckon you to stop for a quick dinner on the way home from work or a brief...
Fruit and Ice Make Summer Nice
In the peak of summer heat, it takes more than water to cool the body down. If it is the end of a long day working in the yard, a cold beer at sunset might be in order. A jog through the neighborhood...
Camping, Gourmet Style
Like millions of Americans, I spent many a childhood summer holed up in a pup tent in the great outdoors along with my family, temporarily escaping reality for a chance to commune with nature. There were...
Summer Seafood For All
Seafood and summer are two words joined together in the collective mid-year consciousness. Lobster rolls are a fixture in New England. Clam bakes bring visions of family reunions on the Cape. Trays...
The United States of Burgers
It is difficult to think of a food that better reflects the diversity of America than the burger. The hamburger, just like the constantly changing face of America, has evolved well beyond the patty of...