Jackie Townsend

When my husband and I make pasta sauce, we prefer to use the canned San Marzano tomatoes imported from his homeland, those that you can now find in many American supermarkets. Olive oil, garlic, and hot peppers; ground pork and …

What do you want to do for Thanksgiving? my husband asks me. Not much, I say, since it’s just the two of us.  Violet Hill Farms sells those free-range, organic turkeys. We could try one, I guess. They’re probably pretty …

My husband, a first-generation Italian, is fiercely passionate about the culinary traditions of his homeland. I often get to reap the benefits…and endure the castigations about what is truly Italian, and what is not. The other night, for instance, I …

An Italian cousin of ours recently married a Frenchman, the second to do so, and of all of the weddings I’ve attended in Italy (many) these are my favorite, if only because for once I am not the foreigner, they …