“Thank you for such fun cooking classes in Dallas. Annie, you are the stuff that binds (all of us),” wrote Jon, my Rome junior-year-abroad friend, after this year’s third (and final -…
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…
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…
“A picture is worth a thousand words”, the saying goes. Jackie and Gina proved it: a display of their Rural Life Revisited tour photos (last October with me in Umbria) launched their…
Every US winter class (and there have been many for the past 15 years) has been a joyous event, bringing people together while slicing and dicing. Many events have had memorable moments…
Young Jordie picked me up in Denver and on the drive to his family home for our class, his enthusiasm for cooking and Italian food prefaced a great night ahead. Mom Therese…
This was my second “cooking reunion” with Maureen and her mother, Therese: we had cooked together two years ago in Phoenix and they were guests. Maureen, Therese and I had reunited over…
Yes, Pete, you certainly did pass the “test” at the Janet and Louise’s San Francisco cooking class: you were right there, mixing, stirring, adding wine and olive oil to the dishes”q.b.” (“quanto…
Tom summed up what my US cooking classes are about when he wrote me this note after our Valentine’s Day class at Corin’s: “Thank you for sharing your passion of cooking with…
Actually, Patrick and Marilyn’s parrot is Roscoe and he loved the Sicilian cauliflower pasta with pinenuts and currants that we made at their cooking class this year. But Roscoe missed out on…