First days of my February/March US cooking lessons/lectures tour

The rains bucketed down in the Los Angeles area during these first days of my February/March US cooking lessons/lectures tour.
Rains poured in the patio door of my cousin Tom’s house in Monarch Beach and mud slides invaded over forty houses in the La Canada area. Tom hosted two wonderful cooking classes for me at the reacreation center of his community center as the rains battered the windows and winds howled outside.
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U.S. February/March 2010 Cooking Lessons/Lectures Tour

My annual U.S. tour is set and kicks off on February 4th, 2010 in Los Angeles, concluding March 21st in Washington, D.C. I’ll be cooking and lecturing my way coast-to-coast for 6 weeks as I bring Umbria to the U.S. From Los Angeles, on to San Francisco, then Seattle, Denver, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, New York, Philadelphia, Charlotte, N.C…and finalmente, Washington, D.C. Some cooking classes have room for other participants – and I do have time for additional cooking classes and lectures in a few locations.

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A “Wonder” at Umbria Jazz – Perugia

The hit of Umbria Jazz 2004 (see www.Umbriajazz.com) in Perugia this July was the 15-year-old Sicilian sax player Francesco “Wonder Boy” Cafiso (so baptized when he played Carnegie Hall last May with Wynton Marsalis). He certainly couldn’t compete with the big names at Umbria Jazz this year, which ranged from Keith Jarret to Alicia Keys,…