Naomi Schalit

Cognoscenti contributor

Naomi Schalit is a longtime journalist, co-founder of the Maine Monitor investigative news service and currently the democracy editor at "The Conversation." She lives in Gloucester.

Recently published

The author's mother on her honeymoon in Turkey in 1950. (Courtesy Naomi Schalit)

Do we ever really know our parents?

Naomi Schalit lost her mother when she was just 18 years old. I've been thinking a lot recently about how strange it is never to have known my mother as...

Cognoscenti

Nov 8, 2023

The author making cranberry jam, which requires a lot of Cuisinart chopping of ginger and tangerine peel and pulp. (Courtesy Naomi Schalit)

My life in Cuisinarts

If once my Cuisinart gave me the power to grow and mature in the kitchen as a teenager, now it gives me the power to slow down time and keep...

Cognoscenti

Jan 26, 2023