About two days before my scheduled arrival in Phoenix, Angela, an old friend from my Santa Clara University days, emailed to ask if I would enjoy a “real Mexican dinner” with her…
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Spontaneity makes any cooking class even better! Howie and Dave specialize in hosting fun cooking classes with a good mix of guests – and their own additions to the menus I send…
Again this year in Belmont, CA., Nada generously opened her home and heart to an enthusiastic cooking group drawn together by Anne – who I first met in 1971 when she brought…
I certainly never thought a parrot would be testing my pasta. Well, the sauce at least… Marilyn and Patrick’s cooking class was the first to be observed by a parrot! I first…
It’s always good to be back in the San Francisco Bay area where so many Santa Clara, Berkeley and Rome-jr-yr-abroad friends live. And now there’s an even greater reason to love my…
I’ve loved acting as guide for Kathy Weeks of Tesoro Travel’s Umbria trips. What a joy to re-unite with Kathy and some of her tour group over the burners as we prepared…
Last time I saw Shannon was in Assisi where I toured with her, husband Tom and their three bellissimi bambini during the two years they were living in Treviso, north of Venice.…
Wine and its sharp-tongued sister, vinegar, are certainly sacred in rural culture, if not harbingers of truth. Our wise farm friend, Peppa, told me that when her family farmed, weak baby chicks…
Valerie and Ann gathered together a happy group for a Seattle cooking class just a few days ago, some were friends of theirs and others were people who had contacted me requesting…
The last thing that I expected from my February 10th Seattle cooking class was the incorporation of black truffle into our menu! Yes, truffles are certainly a highlight of Umbrian culinary specialties…