After forty-two years of friendship and milestones including Kim’s marriage to Thom’s brother, Rob, and the birth of three incredible young men who call her mom and him uncle, as well as Thom’s marriage to his husband Jeff, this dynamic cooking and teaching duo decided to write about food’s connection to our memories with a new food blog.
Salt Onion Moon was born
il Sale- is the Sicilian salt that the family and indeed all life comes from.
la Cipolla- is the onion that provides layers of nourishment and memory.
la Luna- is the moon which provides the light of memory and the movement of all water on Earth.
These three forces work together to define a life of memory and of food through two people who have been inexorably linked and tossed together by fate.
Whether in restaurants through formative, but nonetheless indentured gigs, waiting and managing in fine, corporate and pub dining establishments in Manhattan, Vegas, and Chicago (sometimes with the odd celebrity chef) as well as in hotels, some obligatory catering, and carefree work at an airport candy store, this twosome has wanderlusted, drank and ate their way together through cicchetti, canals and aperitivi in Venice, gelato, artichokes and churches in Rome, Scotch on Islay and in the Scottish Highlands, Guinness for breakfast in Ireland, lobster and beaches on The Cape, chowder and baseball in Boston, and caffè latte and succo d’arancia rossa with cornetti in Milan and Florence.
They have waxed their entire lives about peering down their shared memories to try to see, to taste, to smell and to appreciate how we are all simply the same souls, sharing the same time, for the same little while.
Here they explore it, through photos, recipes, stories, connections, discussions and reminiscences.