Pennsylvania gran finale, March 15, 2010
Well, I guess that cooking class co-host Marilyn said it best: “Anne, this was a happening in Jefferson, PA…
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Pennsylvania pleasures continue… March 14, 2010
The Pennsylvania weather perked up in the morning of March 14th as I moved on to Devon, receiving a warm welcome there from my hosts, Bob and Judy. Though our first meeting – Judy had read about me and my US tours on the Net – I immediately felt that I was with friends…
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March comes in like a lion… March 13, 2010
Little did I know but as “crutches-challenges” go, the worst was yet to come.
My final night in “la Grande Mela”, as the Italians would say, was with jr-yr-abroad Rome friends and new friends in a charming restaurant serving AMERICAN food (again, anything but italiano when I am in the US!)…
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Italian Gestures in Saratoga Springs, NY / March 11 2010
Sometimes, last-minute events just creep into my tour itineraries. Early last February, I was wrapping up this year’s US tour itinerary, about to fly out to the US from Itay, when an invitation came in from Ashley to give a talk in New York…
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Rural Cuisine in New Jersey , March 7th 2010
Thanks to Allison, my Manhattan cooking host, I met Beth and Rob M. and cooked for their friends and some co-workers of Beth on March 7th in their Mahwah, New Jersey home.
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Cooking Sicilian in Manhattan, March 6, 2010
A porter pushing a wheelchair loaded me on to the train in Pennsylvia and another porter-pushed wheelchair unloaded me at the taxi stand in front of Penn Station in New York a few hours later…
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Falling Hard for Pittsburgh (Mar 3, 4, 5)
This year I arrived in Pittsburgh from Milwaukee (with a 2-day stop for family visits) on February 3 and the snowfall dumps of the weeks before were all around…
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Connecting while cooking in Denver
After Seattle, on to Denver for two wonderful events with classmates, old friends, past Umbria tour guests, future Umbria tour guests and new friends! Che bello! Jim and Cindy Tanner warmly welcomed me to their home -and so good to reunite with them (Jim had studied in Rome with me jr/yr/abroad and I met Cindy when I lectured in Denver in 2001 – good to be back!)…
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My days in Seattle…
My days in Seattle seem to me to have been filled with sunshine, though the weather has been the usual Seattle gray and rainy. Here, too, I’ve connected with many old frieds: Jim and Laura R., Doug L and Janie M from “junior-yr.-abroad-in-Rome” days (1968-’69) and Jane E, once a tour guest in Umbria and now a dear friend…
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Cooking italiano in the San Francisco Bay Area!
Great to see Susan and David Murphy again (many years after I was their tour guide in Umbria) in Sacramento on February 19th for the cooking class in their home. Many University of Santa Clara alum (like me) in this enthusiastic and “participatory” group of Murphy friends and relatives, including their grandson, Cooper. Cooper made and served our first antipasto, the tomato/rucola bruschetta and enthusiastically chopped and diced away during our class…
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