About Lucinda Scala Quinn

Lucinda Scala Quinn was born a food enthusiast. Growing up in a hungry Italian family inspired her lifelong appreciation for home cooking and her desire to share good food with others. She is the Executive Director of Food and Entertaining at Martha Stewart Living, host of multiple radio and tv shows, including MAD Hungry with Lucinda Scala Quinn, and the author of several cookbooks on cuisines ranging from Italian to Jamaican. @madhungry

White bowl of beef chili with grated cheese, tortilla chips, and lime wedges on wood

Beef Chili

A chili that you can dress up or down, whether you need something really impressive for game day or relatively inexpensive for Tuesday night dinner.

Two small bowls of lemon ice, with a wooden popsicle stick resting on top of one.

Lemon Ice

We love ice cream, but sometimes it’s too darn hot and humid for anything sweet and sticky. Enter the lemon ice, a bracingly crisp and tart refresher. The best part—no ice cream maker required!

A nonstick skillet filled with scrambled eggs topped with chopped chives.

Scrambled Eggs

Scrambled eggs. They may seem so simple as to defy a recipe. And yet sometimes a precise technique makes all the difference. Here’s how to make the best ones ever.

Cheddar cornbread in a cast-iron skillet, cut into 8 wedges, with one wedge removed.

Cheddar Cornbread

There’s a time and a place for straight-up plain cornbread. Yet it’s always the right time and place for cornbread that’s lent a little more richness by Cheddar.

Chicken pieces in a sauce of vinegar, garlic, rosemary in a white plate, knife and fork on the side

Vinegar-Glossed Chicken

When vinegar meets skillet, a sweetly sour pan sauce is created that lends the perfect touch to this quick weeknight chicken.

Grilled eggplant Parmesan made with stacks of eggplant slices topped with tomato sauce and mozzarella.

Grilled Eggplant Parmesan

This eggplant Parmesan isn’t exactly traditional, and we consider that a darn good thing. We defy you to try it and not like it.