Winter is here. Darkness arrives early and the cool evenings demand warm woolens. It's a cozy cabin time of year for crackling wood fires and deep bowls of hot soup. This Mexican Sopa De Lima (Lime…

My mother was the 1954 summer Cover Girl for County Line, a Monmouth New Jersey magazine. As a 1st generation Italian, Mariana Elvira Lucia Siciliano did not have the female look that was popular in…

American chef and food activist, Alice Waters says, "the best way to create caring, compassionate, peaceful communities, is to bring people together around food." The folklore of "Stone Soup" reminds…

When life gives you lumps, make dumpling soup. In Italian, gnocchi translated means "lumps" and gnochetti is an even more diminutive size or little lumps. Today we are making an easy finger-pinched…