A Dallas Culinary Reunion (Mar 3, 2013)

Julie and Jo, so good to connect once again over the burners! Can it be four years ago since Julie’s cooking class (with Jo as guest)? Jo, thanks for opening your door this time – and kitchen cupboards, fridge and oven! – to an enthusiastic group (everyone bubbling away as they cooked, like that chicken simmering on the stove). Jon, mille graze to you, too – not just for acting gamely as sous-chef for three Dallas classes – but also for having me in your home, for getting me to classes (and not only) during my memorable Dallas stay. (Over forty-five years after our junior year-abroad in Rome, Italian food is still a part of our lives, vero? Now we’re cooking it together!)
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A Family Connects While Cooking – and Not Only… (Mar 2, 2013)

An early-March Lantana, Texas brought together an entire family, everyone connecting in a “culinary” way this time as they prepared our feast. Linda and John, happy to reunite with you about three years after our lunch together in our Assisi farmhouse – and over food once again. Such a pleasure to cook with all your family and thanks so much for including an old friend of mine, Jon: we’d studied together in Rome, junior-year abroad, 1968 – ’69. Logicamente, neither of us could have imagined that we’d be celebrating Italy and Italian flavors over forty-five years later in a Texas kitchen. Che bello!
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