Pomato Revival

Oh, hi! It’s been a while. I finally escaped the city last week for a little Southern road trippin’. Aside from the 40 degree weather and hail, it was a nice time. Sweet tea, fried chicken, collards, boiled peanuts, barbecue…. It was essentially an eating tour of the South. Now I’m back, five pounds heavier […]

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It’s amazing, the happiness that comes with a little cake, cream, and chocolate. Pastry cream and ganache, I’ve realized, are especially handy when you’re looking for a little happy-making. Last week was Joe’s birthday, and the only thing he asked for was a homemade version of the Brooklyn Cream cake at our favorite bakery, Ladybird. […]

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    St. Joseph’s Day (la festa di San Giuseppe) is a big deal in my family. For starters, saints’ feast days are taken much more seriously in Italian culture than they are here (where they’re not really acknowledged outside of St. Patrick’s Day–oh, today!). We receive cards and phone calls on our namesake’s feast […]

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I used to think I was a good cook before I met my husband. I’d mastered most of the comfort foods I’d grown up with by the time we met—pastas, meatballs, cutlets—and thought it was more than most single girls could say for themselves. And I could follow directions well, which is why I clung […]

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It rained yesterday. All. Day. Right after that beautiful kind of spring Saturday that gets you excited for warm weather and ice cream cones. Such a nice Saturday that we fired up the grill to celebrate the beginning of the season. Now this. So I tried to embrace this shut-in day by giving winter one […]

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Talking about Polly-O String Cheese got me thinking about all the junk that filled our lunchboxes in the 80’s. I’m sure most of that stuff still graces lunchboxes today, but there was something about the 80’s, when everything was synthetic neon–from our food to our headbands–that makes me think of them as the heyday of […]

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Some of my friends are disgusted by my eating habits. I just get excited about things that would make certain people hurl. I can live with that. When you grow up with favorite foods like lamb brains and pig’s feet, you learn to get comfortable on your lone little island. At least I had my […]

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  We’re kind of hooked on figs around here. As kids, we were the sort that ran around the backyard with freshly picked figs in our fists. The months of August and September were overwhelmed by mountains of figs from our garden. We’d give ourselves stomach aches from eating too many, but we just couldn’t […]

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Something I did in 2010! Summer Pierre, one of my Perigee authors, is the most inspiring artist I’ve ever met. She’s an amazing writer, visual artist, and musician. I’m sure most of us would be thrilled to have just one of those qualities. She also happened to have given birth to her son in the […]

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This is my 50th post here on Pomato Revival, so I’m celebrating with something fancy! It’s a holiday of sorts, and in our family, holidays don’t begin until there are fresh ravioli in the house. We’ve never been crazy enough to make them ourselves, mind you. The tradition goes that my grandparents make a pilgrimage […]

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