Suzette summed up our Scituate cooking class like this: “One of the culinary highlights of my year so far. You are an informative and engaging storyteller and chef extraordinaire.” Mille grazie, Suzette and to each of you who joined in on creating our Umbrian rural dinner. And as always, cooking is connecting: I had last…
Cooking IS connecting and my U.S. Umbrian rural cuisine cooking classes have reunited me to past tour guests, friends from University-California Berkeley days, University of Santa Clara classmates, junior-year-abroad-in-Rome friends and even by high school friends! Angie, mille grazie, for hosting the most enjoyable class in Oconomowoc (WI) and so very glad the ties remain.…
“There’s no better way to bring people together than preparing delicious food and hearing about all their backgrounds…” Sharon wrote to me after our cooking class with TEMPO women in Madison, WI. Sharon, your words echo Nadia’s, culinary historian in Umbria! Ever since meeting her one November at the Citta’ di Castello White Truffle Festival…
Dee summed it up: teaching Umbrian rural cooking in the US is “leading a kitchen brigade”! Mille grazie, Pauline and Dan, for welcoming the Houston “kitchen brigade” into your home, including not just your friends and Pauline’s yoga students but Dee and Ruth and Mike (who’d all toured with me in Umbria, recently and decades…
Cooking class host Georgia put it this way: “Annie, I love this controlled, total chaos of cooking. It’s so good for the soul.” Yes, it is: the uniting of friends and family to put delicious flavors together – and then the sharing of the goodness. Good for the soul. Georgia and co-host Nancy pulled together…
Il malocchio – the evil eye – added spice to the 2011 Houston cooking class with Mary and Brownie. This year, our evening together was a candlelight dinner – and Mary and I did all the cooking beforehand with the help of Lynn. While Mary was out doing last-minute errands, I soaked the eggplant in…
Cooking links people – and Mike, host in Ruston, LA. of two events, put the concept into practice in two delightful events he hosted. He summed up our evenings like this: “Thank you so much for making your way to Louisiana to spend time with Argent Financial clients and friends. Everyone had such a fantastic…
Well, Mike, you certainly did make it happen! My first trip to Louisiana was an unforgettable one and the comments from the Sheverport women’s cooking group say it all (below). Mike and his wife Gina – of Ruston, Louisiana – had toured a few Umbrian hill towns with me a couple of years ago. We’d…
Donna and Stephen, Shannon and Alison, seems like yesterday that we were sharing Umbrian goodness at the “Black Celery” festival in Trevi. [lcaption]Our veal dish soon coming up![/lcaption] But so grateful that we continue to connect – over Umbrian flavors (and not only!) – here in Denver. Thanks so much, once again, for hosting my…
“Umbria” was all over Cathy and Jim’s Longmont home at our cooking class – and even before we started! A ceramic dish of the Perugia chocolates, Baci, was right there in the midst of all the vegetables, pots and pans, spoons and cutting boards on the countertops ready for our class. I recognized, too, a…