Angela’s Chicken Stew and The Story of Angela Almost every Sunday, we’d go to my grandmother’s house and have a big Italian dinner. The usual suspects would be there; my Mom and Dad and us three kids, and my uncle Oscar,...
Read MoreMeatballs and Motown When I was a kid, fresh out of school, a friend of a friend got me an appointment in New York City with a pretty big publisher. I had written some songs, which I recorded and produced at a studio in my...
Read MoreLinguine White Clam Sauce with Gary Puckett and the Union Gap This dish was one of my uncle Oscar’s favorites. He loved to cook this sauce, and his version was about as good as it gets. A few years ago, I was having brunch with...
Read MoreCarrot and Onion Sauce and The Funky Shack People use the word “literally” in the wrong way. For instance, my niece once said, “I literally puked my guts out” which is so wrong on so many levels. But way back when, when I...
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