It’s always good to return to the San Francisco Bay Area where so many friends now live: friends from my alma mater, the University of Santa Clara, friend from UCB (where I…
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The rains bucketed down in the Los Angeles area during these first days of my February/March US cooking lessons/lectures tour. Rains poured in the patio door of my cousin Tom’s house in…
Feb 4th, Thurs – arrive in Los Angeles, CA Feb 5th Fri – cooking class in private home, Los Angeles area (sold out) Feb 6th Sat – cooking class in…
My annual U.S. tour is set and kicks off on February 4th, 2010 in Los Angeles, concluding March 21st in Washington, D.C. I’ll be cooking and lecturing my way coast-to-coast for 6…
During the 2009 U.S tour, I wasn’t writing tidbits for my blog….but I do remember a highlight of that tour: My Day at The Selwyn School …a memorable highlight of my 2009…
The hit of Umbria Jazz 2004 (see www.Umbriajazz.com) in Perugia this July was the 15-year-old Sicilian sax player Francesco “Wonder Boy” Cafiso (so baptized when he played Carnegie Hall last May with…
As there has been every year since Peppino Impastato’s murder by the Mafia, on May 9th, 1978, there will be a march in his memory in Cinisi (near Palermo), Sicily. If you…
I’ve just been to Heaven and back… Five years ago today, two areas of the frescoed vault of the Upper Basilica di San Francesco here in Assisi, crashed to the floor when…
If you haven’t seen I Cento Passi (“The Hundred Steps”) don’t miss it… and probably best to read the following review from the NY Times (see below) before you read my message….…