Valentine’s Day Passion in a Chico Kitchen (Feb 14, 2013)

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Tom summed up what my US cooking classes are about when he wrote me this note after our Valentine’s Day class at Corin’s: “Thank you for sharing your passion of cooking with all of us.” You zeroed in on the theme, too, Linda, when you wrote ,” …what a wonderful evening …the food, laughter, cooking with friends, with you was our leader! I loved your passion for the gift of cooking” But It’s not so much a “cooking passion”: it’s a passion for Umbrian’s rural food, rural life and rural tastes coupled with the desire to share the lore.
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Polly Want a Cracker? No, Grazie… (Feb 12, 2013)

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Actually, Patrick and Marilyn’s parrot is Roscoe and he loved the Sicilian cauliflower pasta with pinenuts and currants that we made at their cooking class this year. But Roscoe missed out on the rest of the goodness: the Sicilian stuffed tomatoes, the savory Sicilian chicken dish, pollo aglassato, the green beans with mint, the radicchio/walnut/apple salad and the baked apples filled with amaretti and almonds and topped with mascarpone.
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