We called her Mom. Her full name was Angela Barra Crocetti. She was my paternal grandmother, and woe betide the individual who addressed her as such. It was Mom. Period. And her husband, Gaetano, well, we called him Pop. That’s just the way it was. Mom was born in Fernwood, Ohio in 1898. My grandfather, [… Read More]
Archive for August, 2010
Here I am on the Cooking Channel web site! Cooking Channel put out the call to food bloggers to honor Julia Child’s birthday on August 15 by making her recipes and submitting photographs. My version of Julia Child’s Crème Renversée au Caramel is included in their gallery of “faves!” Click here to see my original [… Read More]
Julia Child’s birthday is August 15, but I just had to get a head start to let you all know so you could plan your own Julia feast to honor her. Aside from the chef at Dino’s Lodge who used to make me giant cones of matchstick potatoes, my first out-of-the family food influence was [… Read More]





