I have an idea for a book called No Singing at the Dinner Table—Singing Chef Jackie Gordon’s combination memoir, cookbook and CD. I started writing little stories about my life with food for my old Web site and you can read some of them here. One day I hope to bring it up to date. Note: It’s chronologically backwards and makes more sense if you read it starting from the earliest entry to the latest.
Jackie always loved parties, but only if there was delicious food. So in addition to her mega-holiday dinners, she needed little excuse to throw one.
Jackie made her first forays into New York’s food and dining scene during the “radicchio age.”
With strong roots and her passion to guide her, Jackie kept on cooking. She taught herself from cookbooks and food magazines. She cut herself—she learned, she burned stuff—she learned, she poisoned a family member or two—they learned…
If there was a table with food on it Jackie wanted to be in the center of it from birth. Try to hold her or cuddle her and she would turn on you. But strategically place her with the food and you had a happy baby, who grew to be the kid who had to cook.
Jackie boasts a heritage of culinary riches with her Jamaican-Italian-Russian Jewish roots. It seems both her parents came from foodie families way before the word was ever coined… (Part 2)
Jackie boasts a heritage of culinary riches with her Jamaican-Italian-Russian Jewish roots. The pursuit and production of delicious food started in her family well before she was born. (Part 1)
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Jackie Gordon muses and munches on food, music, design, small business and more in the Big Apple.
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