Ro Howe | Women's Voices For Change

Ro Howe is chef and owner of Barraud Caterers Limited, a full-service catering company based in New York City. She has been a professional chef since 1978, and has twice served as a guest chef for the James Beard Foundation. Ro’s recipes have appeared in Victoria and The Beard House magazines, and in Famous Chefs Cook With Beer. Barraud Caterers has been featured in New York magazine as one of the 45 best caterers in the New York area and in its New York Weddings special edition.

Food & Drink

RO’s Recipes: Picnics on the Fourth of July, Part 2

By Ro Howe

For the elegant picnic Ro Howe, chef/owner of Barraud Caterers, in New York City has devised to mark the day of our Revolution, she offers these grilling recipes, as well as suggestions for sparking games for both children and grown-ups.

Food & Drink

RO’s Recipes: Picnics on the Fourth of July, Part 1

By Ro Howe

The French term 'pique-nique' originally described an occasion where each participant contributed a share of the food and wine. But picnic, as we use it today, really came into its own in post–revolutionary France, when newly enfranchised citizens used the recently liberated royal grounds for their own entertainment.

Lifestyle

Rightsizing Your Friends and Lovers

By Ro Howe

Rightsizing relationships is about the choices you make — not others’ choices — through attrition, pain, and, yes, death. Circumstances change, prompting decisions that have probably already been made subconsciously

Food & Drink

Ro’s Recipes: Turkish Delight

By Ro Howe

We were woken by drumbeats and the Mullah calling all to rise before dawn to eat. We were given a simple breakfast of bread, white cheese, olives, tomatoes, boiled eggs and of course black tea. What a splendid and healthy way to begin the day!

Food & Drink

Art Blossoms in Buckinghamshire

By Ro Howe

The southern English countryside insinuates its way into your senses gradually. As you drive along country roads you don’t notice anything except trees, bushes, trees, no pavements, more trees.

Lifestyle

Valentine’s Day: Love Blooms

By Ro Howe

“I grew in confidence with the understanding of what can happen in the earth. I started knowing things without learning them, developing skill, allowing delight at success, and, along the way, discovering joy. Isn’t that what love is?”

Food & Drink · Travel

Ro’s Recipes: The Veils of Tehran

By Ro Howe

I dallied around the little stalls and shops along the streets and the huge Grand Bazaar with mounds of seeds and freshly ground spices enrobing the air with aromas.

Food & Drink · Travel

Ro’s Recipes: Climbing Clovelly

By Ro Howe

Clovelly is one of only three privately owned villages in England. The quaint difficulty of getting around has been preserved, which ensures that only people who value the glory of the historical will dwell and stay.

Food & Drink · Travel

Ro’s Recipes: Bristol’s Last Class Gasp

By Ro Howe

Bristol sparkles with intellectual and artistic life — the ancient treasures of the city and its surroundings have been preserved for the walking, exploring, living public to enjoy as a legacy of history.

Food & Drink · Travel

Ro’s Recipes: The Matriarch and A Parisian New Year

By Ro Howe

It was an extension of table etiquette advice – to be sensitive to the difference between public and private situations and to respond appropriately within them. The sitting room is not the dining room nor the palace.

Food & Drink · Travel

Ro’s Recipes: The Thrill of the Chill

By Ro Howe

In the midst of frigid weather, soup is universally deemed the handshake and hug of cold weather comfort.

Food & Drink

Ro’s Recipes: Holiday Party Nibbles & Cocktails

By Ro Howe

The nibbles offered at holiday parties must be copious, varied, and exciting. This is a festival, not a perfunctory office gathering.

Food & Drink

Ro’s Recipes: For Your Thanksgiving Feast, Inventive Starters and Sides

By Ro Howe

Here I am giving you some new ideas to explore, using typical ingredients, to bring a little fillip to the timeworn feast. They will deliciously accompany and gorgeously garnish the resplendent, moist turkey.

Food & Drink · Travel

Ro’s Recipes: To Cadiz by Car

By Ro Howe

Cross the French border at San Sebastian into Spain and almost immediately everything changes: the weather, scenery, layout of the towns, and the fumble of little shops on the streets are still small but somehow different.

Food & Drink

Ro’s Recipes: Gingered Carrot-Pumpkin Bread Pudding with Orange Marmalade Cream Cheese Mousse

By Ro Howe

This delicious bread pudding carries the intrinsic character of a Thanksgiving feast. It embodies the comfort and warmth of childhood desserts in cold weather.