Monthly Archives: October 2015

Take my dinner, please — what I asked of my friends

I wrote that starting with my 56th birthday, that I would learn to cook. (It’s complicated). So that happened, one day later. On the Friday evening two weeks ago, we put out the word — dinner at Berta’s house. The caveat: Katherine’s cooking Now, we could safely say this, because Berta is my aunt, Roberta […]

How lobster rolls cost me my seat in the Legislature

My public admission two weeks ago about my decision to learn to cook at 56, had its perils. Should I share the fact, beyond my inner circle, that I have never put a meal on the table for others? That would mean letting on to all my friends, enemies and frenemies, as well as the […]

Making “Joy of Cooking” part of my life, even at 56

“Joy of Cooking” served as the go-to cookbook for our parents’ and even grandparents’ generations. So it was a natural birthday present for me from my father many years ago. The copy I still have carries his hand-written note: “For Katherine, on your 27th birthday. Know that the way to a man’s heart is through […]