I’ve been writing for quite some time about our life on the land here in Umbria – and our rural friends, “givers of the greatest gifts”. I started sharing the memories long…
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It all started on a late June Sunday in the early 1900’s when an elderly woman from Spello (Umbria) scattered shredded bunches of brilliant yellow wild broom and mossy green wild fennel…
I often tell my tour guests that appreciating Italian passione is key to fully understanding the Italians. Passione is the underlying theme of all things Italian: from the elegant presentation of colorful…
If you catch on to the concept un pugno di sale (or “small fistful of salt”), you’re on your way to mastering Italian cooking. Kathy and Steve’s late March Washington D.C. cooking…
Kathleen and Bob’s Arlington, Virginia cooking class was a celebration of Bob’s birthday – but the gifts were for all of us! All the “chefs” in this festive group cooked in Italian-flag…
“Q.b.” for quanto basta (“as much as you need”) is the most common annotation in Italian cookbooks. It’s a secret I like to share at the start of each cooking class, whether…
No one would want to hear me “sing for my supper” but many at a delightful cooking class in Rockville, Maryland certainly could have done so! Starting with hosts, Dick and Mary…
Jenny and Steve, Liz, Roseann and family, Karen, Katie and Sue, how good to renew the “Umbria connection” over the preparing of an Umbrian feast in Karen’s house! We certainly brought it…
Che bello! to cook once again with Mark in Massachusetts. It had been a few years since we first cooked together and he had a new group of friends to this class.…
What better way to reunite with family then over the burners? My cousin Brian hosted a memorable cooking event near Boston – and my aunts were his sous-chefs, doing all the prep…