Country Mouse Confessions

I’ve been wanting to write about what’s happening in food on a platform of my own for almost a decade now. I’ve loved food, intensely loved food, since an ex boyfriend of mine made Shrimp Fra Diavolo for my family when he visited my parents’ old house...

It’s been seven years since we packed up the top floor apartment we had in a brownstone in Williamsburg (Brooklyn, not Virginia). A lot has changed for this Country Mouse - Gone City - Gone Suburban.
None of what we’ve accomplished looks like we thought it would when we carefully tucked all our belongings into boxes. Seven years later, the family has grown from James, Biscuit, and myself. First came Bogart. Then my parents moved to Tennessee, and...