June Nasso was my mother’s best friend and confidant. She was also our Jamaican live-in housekeeper with a strong accent, a penchant for cursing, and a red snapper recipe out of her home town in Jamaica to die for. On many…
When I was 10 years old my parents took to me to Disney World for my birthday. On one way too hot afternoon to be in the park, my mother took me for lunch alone in our hotel while my…
It’s 1965 and my grandmother Reine Silon after 20 years of marriage to my handsome, but austere, Grandfather Bob Berkowitz decides she wants out. Even though she has never earned a living outside of being a homemaker and he owns…
July 1995… I wish I could say that I have spent significant time in Greece island hopping and exploring, but truth be told, my one and only trip there was limited to Corfu. A tumble down steep stone stairs with…
All of my ReciBEEs have a story behind them. Usually based on my memories, this is the first one I’ve created based on need. Here I sit cozied in our lovely home, a blanket of fresh snow covers the wet,…
When I was a little girl all of the southern women in my life knew how to make a kick ass chicken salad. Summers in the south can be brutal. The air is thick and still as a swamp. It’s…