Crab Cakes and My Motown Album I always wanted to be a songwriter. There was a time when I thought I wanted to be an artist, to be in the spotlight; but the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to be behind the curtain,...
Read MoreGrilled Vegetable Pasta and My Dad’s Garden Most Italians I know have a garden. I don’t know why; it just seems to be the case. My grandmother Angela had a small garden. My uncle Oscar had a garden. Or rather, he had someone...
Read MoreShrimp and Scallop Kabobs with Mack and Myer’s Might have fun, might not. That was the sign outside Mack and Myer’s nightclub in Essex, Maryland. My band, BootCamp, was the house band at Mack and Myer’s. In the music binniz,...
Read MoreFrittata with Jimi Hendrix I’d heard Hendrix was coming to town, so I bought two tickets. They were $6.50 apiece. On the day of the Big Show, my friend Jeffe and I — his real name was Jeff, my Mom gave him his nickname — caught...
Read MoreGrilled Salmon Marsala with Grilled Vegetables in World War II My Dad told me that when his platoon was going across France behind General Patton in World War II, the towns they liberated were really grateful. How...
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