![]() Even when chomping on the last little knob, he’ll do the strut for you. It takes about a week to fully decimate it. For everyone who enters the house during that time, he finds his bone and walks the walk, head held high. After being handed it, he struts up and down the living room carpet-as if on a runway of a fashion show-preening and prancing with pride. About once a month he gets a foot long raw hide bone. Over the years he’s acted as companion, nurse, therapist, nanny, protector, cast-iron pan cleaner and champion bone eater. This boy dog is almost human and we all adore him. He joined our pure-bred, food-obsessed 10 year-old chocolate Lab KoKo (RIP), and breathed a few more years of life into her. Georgia is his home state, and while he looks like a Lab, he’s probably more Coonhound than anything given his penchant for tracking city squirrels like it’s his job. The rest of his litter was gone but he looked happy. Unlike the rest of the orphaned dogs, he was completely relaxed and slumped over a small trampoline as if utterly confident someone would notice how cool he is. We found him chilling out at the Cape Ann Animal shelter. And no-one, NO-ONE makes a tuna sandwich like her. Rose inspires us all to stay in the moment, and find the everyday beauty life has to offer. She is a true artistic soul, having attended art school at the Society of Arts and Crafts in Detroit in the 40’s, with a wild and diverse crowd, with whom she was known to skip out to see Ella Fitzgerald or Louis Armstrong at a local club. Without judgement, or rancor, it’s natural for her to find the positive in any difficult situation. Give her a reason to laugh and she’ll crack up harder than anyone. She gave the kids daily jobs, including setting out all the morning breakfast supplies (plates, bowls, forks, napkins, cereal, fruit etc) as the last job before going to bed. Her salad dressing alone made enthusiastic salad eaters of the whole family. At a time when 1950’s America was foisting processed food on American housewives, Rose stuck to her guns and cooked simple, fresh food every day for her family of six. Why individually stuff 25 artichokes when you can buy artichoke hearts, toss them with the stuffing, and bake multiple trays at a time like this recipe? If everyone loves the meatballs so much, then why not make them into little mini sandwiches, and serve them as snacks and appetizers…a lot of them. With no family roots of her own in Italy, she managed to out-Italian the Italian cooks in her husband’s family by making everything better, smarter, and more delicious. She married Lucinda’s dad, an Italian-American, three times (don’t ask, we’ll let her tell it some day) and also had three sons, Jim, David, and Peter. Mad Hungry is the culmination of this journey: The headquarters for home cooks looking for proven recipes, strategies, and inspiration done affordably, easily, accessibly, and, most of all, with joy and love.Įveryone calls her Rose, even the family, which might seem strange, except that you want to say “Rose” because she has all the beauty attendant with that name. I continue my journey as a mom on a mission to pay forward what I’ve learned feeding my family through the years. And there’s nothing that brings me more satisfaction to share my love of the family meal with my sons. small) New York City apartment where miraculously three baby boys grew into tall men, who, after all this time observing me in the kitchen, now challenge with me over how to best make the Thanksgiving turkey that I have cooked for them for the last 25 years. Being the erstwhile Senior Vice President, Executive Editorial Director of Food and Entertaining at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and the host of my own television show Mad Hungry: Bringing Back the Family Meal, and cohosting Everyday Food on PBS for six years, has kept me overly busy for too many years. I am the author of five cookbooks (available here and where other fine books are sold), and appear regularly on QVC with an awesome multi-purpose line of kitchenware. My love for cooking started early with our family meals and blossomed into a career at the age of sixteen as a prep cook, and on to chef, cooking teacher, caterer, food editor, author and food writer. Having grown-up in a big Italian family on my dad’s side, it was hard not to be psyched about food my mom, Rose, always cooked simple, fresh food for our family of six and it wasn’t until I had to start doing it myself that I appreciated it. I’m a firm believer that food, security and love are entwined in the meals we cook and serve our family and friends.
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