Sharing food is always communion. Ironically, the day after a “cooking communion” with family and new friends in Madison, Wisconsin, my note on food as communion came out in Italian Notebook. Lisa…
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Cooking with the TEMPO women in Madison, Wisconsin is always a joy: and this year, too. (Our third or forth year, signore?) What lively chatter and interaction as we cooked in a…
Cooking together always forms links. In Milwaukee, our cooking class in the Milwaukee Catholic Home kitchen, connected various generations of students of DSHA, my own Milwaukee high school (at that time, Holy…
I sometimes wonder if the hosts booking my cooking classes have any doubts about the good times we’ll have cooking Umbrian rural cuisine together? Now I know for sure that guests might:…
A stop in Denver nearly always includes a “cooking reunion” with Steve and Donna, their family and friends. Third time around this year. Our first meeting? During their year-long stay with family…
Mike and Jerilynn, mille grazie for so warmly welcoming me into your Colorado Springs home for a cooking evening of sharing and connecting. As Jerilynn put it: “Wonderful to share time and…
Judy and David, thanks so much for a “second-time-around” in your Austin kitchen – and with such a delightful group. A pleasure to meet new “cooks” and glad to “back in the…
There’s no better link than cooking together – and then feasting together. And no better reunion: hosts Jeff and Debbie, remember our first meeting in Assisi during our stupendous medieval May festival,…
Tom and Cissy, mille grazie for gathering together such a warmly welcoming group of friends to cook up Umbrian flavors in Kingwood. I certainly do try to put my heart info every…
…(and) who would have thought a chance meeting would lead to such a fabulous dinner?” Denise wrote to me after a cooking class in her Spring, Texas home. And yes, it all…