1964 Waldorf Astoria Potato Chips
The first night, at the end of our day in New York City, we stayed at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. My mother and her friend Peg took my younger sister, Nancy, and I to the 1964 Worlds Fair to show us the future. A lavish flower arrangement greeted us on the marble...
The Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink
I thought of Veronica Williams, the forager of the wild, when I heard about this restaurant in New York State.
A Square Meal, A Culinary History of the Great Depression
The New York Times review of A Square Meal, A Culinary History of the Great Depression documents an era of history which changed this country in so many ways. As a catalyst for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Social Security, Food Stamps, and The...
SHOPPING IN KOTZEBUE
SHOPPING IN KOTZEBUE After you pass the Arctic Circle on the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska, Kotzebue is the biggest town in which to stock up until Barrow at the top of the world. Originally, it was a summer village for Native Alaskans...
Nutty Awakening
Glasnost and Perestroika opened a number of tenuous attempts at business and friendship in the 1980’s between the United States and the dissolved Soviet Union.
Russian fishing fleets arranged a business deal with Pacific Northwest American fishermen.
