(Photo above thanks to Assisi News – www.assisinews.it) You might consider St. Francis of Assisi the patron saint of animals but Italians well-know that this honorific appellation belongs to St. Anthony Abbot,…
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As I look forward to my 2012 February/March coast-to-coast U.S tour, memories of my memorable 2011 tour flood in. No single event takes the stage. Each one was unique, each one was…
My stay in the Washington, D.C. area was a perfect wrap-up to a memorable 7-week (almost!) coast-to-coast U.S. cooking lessons/lectures tour. It synthesized what my annual U.S. tour is about: connecting with…
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…