Author Archives: Rossi

About Rossi

Rossi aka Chef Rossi is the author of the hit memoir "The Raging Skillet," host of the Bite This show on WOMR going into its 13th year, blogger for Huffington Post, columnist for Bust Magazine and co-host of the brand new "Mouthing Off" radio show on transformation radio.

The Domino Effect (for Diana Fabbri)

The Domino Effect (for Diana Fabbri) I was a teenager when I fell in love with radio. It was the ’70s, and late one night when I couldn’t sleep, I heard a sultry-voiced DJ cooing, “The flutter of wings, the …

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Passover 2017 by Rossi aka Chef Rossi

And so there came upon the nation a great (not so great, really) and terrible Pharaoh. He promised the hungry that he would provide for them, but soon after he rose to power, he took the food from their mouths …

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Imagine

Imagine “Walk a mile in my shoes.” You’ve heard that expression before. But what if we really did that? Just for one day. Just for one hour. Just for one moment. What if we could truly imagine what it felt …

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This is What Democracy Looks Like

  We knew it would be big; perhaps the biggest march of our lives. I got loads of advice. “Don’t carry a bag!” “Only bring what you can afford to lose.” “Write your emergency contact info on your arm with …

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When the Winners Lose

When the winners lose I’ve been taking an inventory of how our lives might have been different if Al Gore had won the presidency instead of George W. Bush. It’s on my mind because Al Gore was the last presidential …

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September 11th 2015

  I had a wedding to cater in October of 2001. I assumed like most celebrations planned in the early fall of 2001 in New York City, they might cancel or postpone. Who wanted to celebrate anything after that terrible …

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The Rock and Roll Pride Ride and the Tomboy Queen

  I was the queen of the TOMBOYS. I remember rough housing on the school play ground in the 1st and 2nd grade with the boys, playing in the dirt with TONKA trucks, trading horror comic books for models of …

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Drawing the Line

With New Year’s Eve just passing us by, this little resolution seemed appropriate. I call it Drawing the Line. I remember taking my first and only trip (thus far) to Israel. I was told it would be a life-changing trip, …

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The Boss is Always Greener

I took some zany jobs in my younger years. I was a barker at an amusement pier in Long Branch, New Jersey. I got on the microphone and called folks to throw down quarters, spin the wheel of chance and …

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Pride

Gay Pride 2014 I was standing in front of “The Duchess,” a lesbian bar in Greenwich Village. I had just moved to New York City. I was 17 years old. I had found the courage to leave home, but the …

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