It took years after my mother's death before I could dream about her.
Denise Vivaldo | Posted 04.19.2012
Will cookbooks survive? Will paper books totally disappear? Is traditional publishing dead? Cookbooks are all about sales, and they always have been. What has changed is how the author will sell the book.
Denise Vivaldo | Posted 05.14.2012
I asked for clarification. When women have their periods, they ruin the food? Yep, that was it.
Denise Vivaldo | Posted 04.11.2012
I have several paying gigs and deadlines that I should be working on but with all the shit storms of last week, I can't focus on "sharing" my favorite...
Denise Vivaldo | Posted 03.19.2012
Okay, I'm jumping into the fray. I want to go on record first thing by saying that I have never met Paula Deen. I did get a call from her team years a...
Denise Vivaldo | Posted 02.19.2012
The miracle every Christmas was that the turkey ever got to the table.
Denise Vivaldo | Posted 01.16.2012
My Aunt Celestina was pure Italian. She had a big home. All her closets were full. Three of those closets were refrigerators. She never threw a morsel of food away. A man named Mussolini tried to starve her once and she remained scared for the rest of her life.
Denise Vivaldo | Posted 01.01.2012
His secretary started calling me at noon every Monday with, "He'd like a full turkey dinner for dinner tonight. Okay, bye, bye." There were the strings... tied right to my bag of money. He tugged the strings and I roasted the turkeys.
Denise Vivaldo | Posted 12.13.2011
Her memoir and cookbook is the history of her life. Oh my. What a life she has had.
Denise Vivaldo | Posted 11.16.2011
I decided I had to make a meal worthy of my new beautiful china. It took me a while to decide on the menu but I kept seeing rich, gold tones in my imaginings, and I remembered Steak Diane.
Denise Vivaldo | Posted 10.10.2011
In food styling, like most small businesses, you say, "Yes" no matter what. If the client can think it, we can achieve it. My latest lesson learned in, "I can't make this up" came in the form of a whole pig.
Denise Vivaldo | Posted 08.16.2011
Making deals, retaining clients and getting referrals is the life blood of any business, big or small. But I must warn you that handling clients will be much harder than your actual work.
Denise Vivaldo | Posted 05.25.2011
I've worked with many celebrities that write cookbooks. Some are very sincere, some are skanks, some are desperate for the attention, and some want to transition out of what they are doing.
Denise Vivaldo | Posted 11.17.2011
I love that the camera makes strangers want pancakes, my pancakes, enough to go out and buy some, even though those pancakes are never gonna look as good as mine.
Denise Vivaldo | Posted 11.17.2011
I had no intention of going to my 40th high school reunion. I thought I'd escaped my high school class. Then more invitations and information about the reunion started flowing via Facebook.
Denise Vivaldo | Posted 05.25.2011
Take a nap and be rested. A clean house and a cranky host do not a party make.
Denise Vivaldo | Posted 05.10.2012