Mike and Jerilynn, mille grazie for so warmly welcoming me into your Colorado Springs home for a cooking evening of sharing and connecting. As Jerilynn put it: “Wonderful to share time and food and friendship.” And Mike, glad you enjoyed our time together, too: “Anne, what a delight to share this time with you and…
Judy and David, thanks so much for a “second-time-around” in your Austin kitchen – and with such a delightful group. A pleasure to meet new “cooks” and glad to “back in the kitchen” with returning cooks. Jerry and Karen, “second year” cooks, thanks for your note to me: “So good to be back in the…
There’s no better link than cooking together – and then feasting together. And no better reunion: hosts Jeff and Debbie, remember our first meeting in Assisi during our stupendous medieval May festival, Calendimaggio? Mille grazie for deciding on a cooking class in your Austin home as the perfect way to re-connect. And with such an…
Tom and Cissy, mille grazie for gathering together such a warmly welcoming group of friends to cook up Umbrian flavors in Kingwood. I certainly do try to put my heart info every class: it means much to me when that is perceived. Very touched, then, by the comment you wrote to me, post-class, Fred: “What…
…(and) who would have thought a chance meeting would lead to such a fabulous dinner?” Denise wrote to me after a cooking class in her Spring, Texas home. And yes, it all did start with a chance meeting a couple years ago in an Assisi cafe’. That “chance meeting” led to Denise and husband Greg’s…
Sadie and Nick, So good to have you stay with us in November in our Assisi farmhouse – and glad you joined us at Peppa’s, feasting on her Umbrian rural cooking. A night to remember, no? And so was Academy Awards night with Sadie’s family and friends, uniting in an “Oscar of a cooking class”…
Our late February cooking class in San Francisco celebrated not just host Patti’s birthday but fifty years of friendship for us University of Santa Clara women. Mamma mia! Che bello! (and this was “second-time-around” for an SCU reunion dinner..) Friends Yvonne and Celia summed it up: Yvonne: “Wonderful food, especially divine pasta, great wine and…