My father came from tough immigrant Scandinavian stock, no nonsense people, salt of the earth. Though he was the apple of his Finnish mother’s eye and the darling of his sisters all their lives, he was not like them. He was always looking beyond. He was ever searching. There was something ...
As the city of Jamestown continues its renaissance, a collaborative effort is looking to give a “hand up” to the city’s most vulnerable people by turning a former factory, which was once Chautauqua Hardware and currently houses The Gateway Center, into the epicenter of social services ...
Kelley Liskow still remembers the yellow, soft-covered children’s cookbook where she got the fried bologna recipe she made frequently as a child. Her recipes and cooking skills have greatly expanded since then. Her interest in cooking grew when her boys were little and she found she wanted ...
Chautauqua. It’s a beautiful word, just to say it. Chautauqua. I like to remember the word Chautauqua is a mixture of cultures — native American, French, immigrants and settlers, a patois of centuries and peoples. When I think of it, I think of a county green and lush, some months ...
“If you ask me anything about Italian food, I can answer,” says Pablo Flores owner of La Cucina Della Nonna Pizzeria and Restaurant. The restaurant’s name translated from Italian is Grandma’s Kitchen. Flores named the Italian restaurant after the grandmother he lived with in ...
Tonight, my friend and her kiddos came over. My house was a wreck, there were fish crackers on the floor and my dishes weren’t done. But, yet we still managed to have a meal and catch up on what’s been going on. It wasn’t fancy, and Good Housekeeping magazine wouldn’t want a picture of it on its cover — but it was just fine for me. And, as it turns out, for them, too. My friend showed me grace when my house wasn’t perfect. When some of the spaghetti didn’t cook all the way. When my toddler stole toys from her kid that made her kid cry. When I was exasperated by it ...
