by Michelle Moran | Jul 28, 2024 | The Writer
Technology is both my best friend and enemy. In the mornings, my practice has been to open my email and start the day by knocking out to-do lists before I write. The writing never comes because the lists are always so long. Then something happened the other day. I was...
by Michelle Moran | Aug 25, 2023 | The Writer
Heaven on earth. Achat Beach. The beauty of Pigadia. A menu map of Karpathos. Our trip to Karpathos, Greece, began as a joke. Well, not really, Here’s how the story goes. We were visiting Danny’s niece and her husband in New York City. It was a reunion delayed by the...
by The Chef And The Writer | Aug 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’ve been a little quiet down here. Yep, I am still in Belize. The airports are still closed. We had expected to open in August. In fact, Danny Mellman was to arrive on August 20, but just 12 days prior, COVID-19 cases popped up on Ambergris Caye and the country...
by The Chef And The Writer | May 19, 2020 | #BestofBlueRidge, #ChefDannyMellman, #dannyandmichelle, #litlpond, #MasseriaKitchen, #saverestaurants, CovidChronicle, Uncategorized
There are so many ups and downs in this quarantine. This began as one of those down weeks. Struggling with the idea of opening, something that 65 days ago, when we were submerged by the knowledge that we would have to close our restaurants, we were buoyed only by the...
by The Chef And The Writer | May 10, 2020 | #ChefDannyMellman, #dannyandmichelle, #litlpond, #saverestaurants, CovidChronicle, Uncategorized
I have been writing in my head for eight weeks now. Or I guess ranting would be a better word. Maybe ranting doesn’t even describe it. Each day I wake up and remember where I am and what’s going on in the world, well I don’t remember straight away. Sometimes if my...
