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Smoky Chili

Smoky Chili

Sep 24, 2024

This easy recipe for Smoky Chili is a real crowd pleaser. It will feed a large group of people, and...

Buttermilk Chocolate-Nut Loaf

Buttermilk Chocolate-Nut Loaf

Sep 13, 2024

This Buttermilk Chocolate-Nut Loaf is a rich and elegant cake with a deep double chocolate and almond flavor. The recipe...

Shrimp With Crème Fraîche and Tomatoes

Shrimp With Crème Fraîche and Tomatoes

Sep 2, 2024

Shrimp with Crème Fraîche and Tomatoes is a distinctly late summer dish, primarily because it requires ripe, flavorful tomatoes, which...

Fresh Cream Salad Dressing

Fresh Cream Salad Dressing

Aug 24, 2024

Sometimes the simplest recipes are the best. This Fresh Cream Salad Dressing is the perfect example. It takes just 4...

Crab Cakes

Crab Cakes

Aug 6, 2024

I adore crab cakes. They are delicious and quite easy to make. Sadly, the price of lump or jumbo crab...

Key Lime Pie

Key Lime Pie

Jul 29, 2024

Key Lime Pie is the perfect dessert for summer. It’s easy to make, requires only a limited amount of baking,...

Italian Sausage Salad

Italian Sausage Salad

Jul 22, 2024

One of my favorite luncheon dishes is Italian Sausage Salad served in a hot pita. It’s not difficult to make,...

Sharp Macaroni and Cheese

Sharp Macaroni and Cheese

Jul 15, 2024

My go-to recipe for Mac and Cheese has been James Beard’s from his Beard on Pasta recipe book. As good...

Coconut Macaroons

Coconut Macaroons

Jul 9, 2024

When I have a mad craving for homemade cookies but have no desire to spend a lot of time baking,...

Tuna Tetrazzini

Tuna Tetrazzini

Jul 5, 2024

Tuna Tetrazzini is one of those retro dishes that I believe deserves a new life. It’s inexpensive, easy to make,...

Maraschino Cherry Cake with Chocolate Icing

Maraschino Cherry Cake with Chocolate Icing

Jun 9, 2024

Lusciously liquid chocolate-covered cherry cordials are one of my favorite candies. So I thought, why not a cake using the...

Crispy Fresh Tuna Cakes

Crispy Fresh Tuna Cakes

May 18, 2024

Crispy Fresh Tuna Cakes are so much better than those made with canned tuna and are just as easy to...

Currant and Pecan Scones

Currant and Pecan Scones

May 12, 2024

These easy-to-make Currant and Pecan Scones make delightful accompaniments to your afternoon tea or to a breakfast. Although the addition...

Sicilian Meatball Soup

Sicilian Meatball Soup

Apr 29, 2024

One of my favorite and most comforting soups since my childhood is Sicilian Meatball Soup. It’s not at all difficult...

Roasted Garlic and Thyme Custards

Roasted Garlic and Thyme Custards

Apr 25, 2024

Roasted Garlic and Thyme Custards make a lovely appetizer or first course that’s not difficult to prepare.  Some of the...

Zucchini Fritters

Zucchini Fritters

Apr 19, 2024

If you are searching for a different sort of vegetable dish to serve with your meal, Zucchini Fritters may be...

Pear Charlotte

Pear Charlotte

Apr 7, 2024

One of my most favorite and most elaborate desserts is a Pear Charlotte with Warm Chocolate Sauce. The recipe is...

Escarole and Smoked Mozzarella Risotto

Escarole and Smoked Mozzarella Risotto

Mar 24, 2024

The recipe for this unusual Escarole and Smoked Mozzarella Risotto is my enhancement of a recipe that was published in...

Cassatedde

Cassatedde

Mar 15, 2024

Cassatedde (pronounced Cah-Sah-Tayd-Day and in some places called Cassatelle) are a fried Sicilian turnover dessert, a close cousin of the...

Leek and Watercress Soup

Leek and Watercress Soup

Mar 7, 2024

This Leek and Watercress Soup is a variation on the French parmentier and the AmericanVichyssoise. It’s a delicious, elegant soup,...

Chocolate Tapioca Parfait

Chocolate Tapioca Parfait

Feb 25, 2024

If you want a simple, but impressive, dessert, tapioca is the way to go. I’ve created a chocolate tapioca parfait...

Pennsylvania Dutch Chicken Pie

Pennsylvania Dutch Chicken Pie

Feb 2, 2024

Chicken Pie may be the greatest of all comfort foods. This Pennsylvania Dutch Chicken Pie is my elaboration on my...

Chicken Breasts Broiled with Butter, Wine, and Tarragon

Chicken Breasts Broiled with Butter, Wine, and Tarragon

Jan 15, 2024

One of the most delicious and one of the easiest  chicken recipes in my repertoire is Chicken Breasts Broiled with...

Shrimp Creole

Shrimp Creole

Jan 8, 2024

Shrimp Creole is an extremely satisfying and healthy dish that originated in the Creole region of Louisiana around New Orleans....

Frittata Savoiarda

Frittata Savoiarda

Dec 29, 2023

Frittata Savoiarda is a delicious, savory dish that can make a very satisfying lunch. The frittata, because of its ingredients,...

Black Forest Cake

Black Forest Cake

Dec 10, 2023

Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte, or Black Forest Cake, is one of the most prominent German desserts. The Black Forest is a region...

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Featured in Kirkus Reviews The Best Books of 2018

My article, “When News Drives Creativity,” which discusses Trump’s executive order not to report civilian death’s by drone, is featured in Theater Art Life Magazine. Click here.

Critical Acclaim for The Wrong Side of the Room

“The book’s second half is fully stocked with accounts of stage shows galore—not to mention impressive name-dropping (Barbra Streisand, Betty Grable, Dorothy Lamour, Gene Kelly). These anecdotes from the theater’s social scene glide alongside vivid imagery from the author’s performances and other successes. The book also has a delightful, chatty sense of humor with moments of wry wit that make it exciting to read.
In the end, it effectively celebrates a life of artistic inspiration alongside the giddiness and glory of live theater.”

—Kirkus Review

Read the entire Kirkus Review here.

 

Readers’ Favorite Review
by Asher Syed

The Wrong Side of the Room: A Life in Music Theater by Norman Mathews is an autobiography chronicling the author’s life as he transitions from a confusing and often abusive childhood, born in a sleet of uncertainty (literally, as it turns out). Masked by imagination and written with a humor that most would not be able to apply to such situations, Mathews is able to harness this creativity and hitch it to his own ambitions as a rising star. When an injury threatens to derail an ascent that defies all odds, Mathews is forced to reinvent and reignite himself once more, and does so amid a whole host of personal and professional turmoil, scandal, and the kind of stories that are all the more shocking – and inspiring – because they are actually true.

Norman Mathews delivers a riveting memoir with The Wrong Side of the Room that opens with a contentious genesis and powerfully surges through to its finale. This is the ultimate tale of a man who is knocked down seven times and gets up eight, except in this case our tenacious narrator is struck to the ground far more than that. But he does continue to rise and appears to have carved out a genuine niche for himself until, “I woke up one morning with a strange pain in my back and running down my right leg. In a few days, it got much worse, and I began limping.” With the support of his partner Todd, he buys a Steinway, dives into formal education, and…well, at first that all implodes too. But Mathews is the consummate phoenix and, much like he displays in the writing of this book, skillfully maneuvers the trajectory of his life’s own narrative into a story that we are fortunate enough to have shared in The Wrong Side of the Room.

Impressively candid, exceptionally informative, deftly written, organized and presented, “The Wrong Side of the Room: A Life in Music Theater” is an extraordinary memoir that will have special and particular appeal for anyone with an interest in show business. . .very highly recommended for both community and academic library Contemporary American Biography collections.

—Midwest Book Review

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The Wrong Side of the Room is the Bronze-Medal Winner in the Non-Fiction —Music/Entertainment Category of the Readers’ Favorite Book Competition.

To see my coming-out video on YouTube, click here.

 

BOOK CORRECTION: In my autobiography on page 152, I state that Carolyn Morris died in a motorcycle accident. I learned from her daughter-in-law that though she was severely injured she did not die. She is still living in Rutland, Vermont.

Get a free copy of Chapter 1 of my autobiography just by commenting on whether you think Sondheim or I am right about setting Dorothy Parker’s verses to music. Click here.

Read my new article, Sicilian Classics from Nonni’s Kitchen in the Times of Sicily. The article gives 4  of my grandparents’ interesting recipes.

Read my interview about my autobiography, The Wrong Side of the Room, with Norm Goldman, editor of BookPleasures.com here

The Wrong Side of the Room has been listed on Vincent Lowry’s site eAuthorSource. Click here.

 

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