Kat and Mike’s Del Mar, CA Valentine’s Day cooking class was a birthday celebration for Kat and a celebration of friendships. Gabriela and Paul summed it up in their post-class note to…
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Not all cooking classes start with shopping for ingredients at a local outdoor produce market. But my Santa Barbara class with Mary and Ed did. Not all cooking classes are preceded with…
Hollyce P., part of the group of delightful women united to cook at Alicia’s Del Mar home, summed it up: “Tasty food, the warm friendship, a little wine – and what’s not…
Mille grazie, Karen and Michael, for joining in with Deirdre to host a most special evening of Umbrian rural food – highlighted by California organic goodness. Anne M., those strawberries from your…
Bill put it this way to me in his post-cooking class note: “Anne has provided a fantastic picture of life and cuisine in Umbria – and not only tonight but on our…
Susie and Don did it again: gathered a delightful group of their own friends and “unknowns” for cooking up Umbrian goodness in their Laguna Hills kitchen. Many times, people write me about…
Links are always formed at our Umbrian rural cuisine cooking classes and sometimes, surprising ones: at cousin Tom’s class in Monarch Beach, a participant, Sandy, had studied her junior year abroad in…
Richelle – from South Africa – and friend Paula kicked off my 2015 US cooking tour by uniting a delightful group of young women over the burners in Richelle’s kitchen. Mille grazie…
I missed Woodstock – but I was in Naples on January 7th for the addio to Pino Daniele. How not to be with the napoletani for their final tribute to beloved poet/songwriter…
A late December “freddo polare” (“polar cold” – which for Italy means anything below freezing temperature) – did not deter jazz appassionati from heading to hill town gem Orvieto for the twenty-second…