Salted and Styled (chong and summers)

Pear Upside-down Skillet Corn Cake

Recipe and Styling by Libbie Summers (from, Sweet and Vicious –baking with attitude, Rizzoli) Photography by Chia Chong Nestled up next to the pumpkin pie this holiday season will be […]

There’s a Strawberry on my Back

I grew up wanting to work in the fields, a dream my parents deferred my entire childhood.

Every elementary kid did it, or so it seemed. Each summer a chartered school bus would haul sleepy-eyed kids from their homes to the sprawling strawberry fields just a short 15-minute drive into the county. While I lazed around watching “Tom and Jerry” and lapping up “toasted rice” cereal, I imagined my schoolmates singing songs and forging friendships in my absence.

The Wish of a Feather

It wasn’t the first time he had seen me performing this surgery, so this was no WTF moment. He just shook his head and walked the other way. You see, my son seems to understand the oddity of my attraction to the plumage of birds. He’s seen their colorful feathers in specimen jars that line a shelf in my office since as long as he can remember.