Delaware Girl Eats

Oatmeal Crispies are the Most Comforting Winter Treats

Reading about food is almost as enjoyable as talking about it or eating with friends. So I thoroughly enjoyed the current Cook the Books selection “Sustenance & Desire, a collection of inspiring poems, luscious drawings and provocative short pieces gathered by the writer Bascove, who is from nearby Philadelphia. Honestly, it was hard to choose one to single out. But I finally settled on a piece written by an author of children’s books. “My Life in Cookies", by Carol Weston, brought back memories of cozy kitchens of my own childhood and making cookies alongside my mother. Weston asks a rhetorical... Read more →

Rustic Abruzzese Ricotta Tart Brightens up January

Not too far as the crow flies from the town where my family came from in Italy lies the village of Torricella Peligna. While a virtual neighbor, it is a village I had never heard of until a friend in Wilmington, Delaware told me about his family’s roots there. The town where my family came from, Giulianova, is a seaport on the Adriatic coast of Abruzzo, but Torricella sits high in the mountains at a crossroads where provincial roads connect like a spider web. A quintessential mountain village, it is surrounded by the vast panorama of the Maiella mountains to... Read more →