Charm City Cook
Food is good
In the space formerly occupied by longtime local darling Salt Tavern, which closed in 2018, Marta opened this week. With simple and classically adorned tables, custom tile work, tons of natural light, the restaurant is lovely. I stopped in and sat at the bar for a cocktail – negroni, no spagliato – and enjoyed a …
Changes, fresh starts, do overs. Even small tweaks can be very helpful. Over the last few years, I’ve been looking at my life and slowly addressed things that were not working for me. Everything from what I eat, how I dress, where and how I live are all things that I have the ability to …
Walking through Lafayette CemeteryOysters at PecheSazeracs at Tujague’sLive music at Preservation HallBeignets at Cafe Du MondeThe Piano Bar at Lafitte’sRamos Gin Fizzes at the Sazerac BarThe best bartender at The French 75 BarOyster Po’boys at ParkwayFrozen Irish Coffee at Erin RoseLate Night Martinis at Clancy’sWine and jazz at BacchanalBrunch at Compère LapinCrab beignets at La …
This week, I made a big step in creating some mental health boundaries for myself by unfollowing many food/beverage accounts on Instagram. When I see mostly restaurants and food IGs in my feed, I have feelings of, not really FOMO, it’s more like they feel like a distraction from what I want to be doing. How …
At first — after the Bon Appetit scandal news broke — I was somewhat conflicted. As a middle class, middle-aged white female home cook, I was totally in their target demographic. I had always liked getting the physical magazine in the mail. I’d look through it, dog-earing recipes I might like to — and almost …
Friends and strangers alike have asked me things like, “why in the world did you scrap years of work in building an Instagram following as Charm City Cook?” or “but you ARE Charm City Cook, why walk away?” (and lots more in-depth, sometimes really awkward questions…) Here’s the thing. In the IG food world, 15,000 …
If you know me — or at least the social media me — you know that Ina Garten taught me how to cook. And so did Martha Stewart, The Kitchn, America’s Test Kitchen, Mark Bittman, Julia Child and others. All white people. I never noticed that until recently, like really recently. And while they …
I never met any of my grandparents. But, every time my mom was about to have a baby – which was a lot – her mother would buy her dresses for a little girl. My mom proceeded to have six boys. Then, finally, my mother had me on June 16, 1967. My grandmother, Mary Fitzpatrick, …
In the spring of 2019, I was contacted by Rebecca Bradley at the Maryland Institute College of Art about a possible collaboration. Her students take a class each spring entitled, Illustrating the Edible. In this class, they illustrate many, many food and cooking related subjects and she wanted to see if there was something in …
