My passione for Umbria’s rural life and rural cuisine was not waning as I started the final cooking class of my 2014 7-week coast-to-coast U.S. cooking classes/lectures tour. Was I tired, though?…
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For quite a few years now, my U.S. cooking classes wrap up in Washington D.C. A few years ago, my tours started on the East Coast: that all changed with a snowstorm…
Vicki’s cooking class in Columbia, MD gathered together an enthusiastic group of women who teamed to cook an Umbrian rural feast of fresh goodness. In my talk prior to the class, I…
One of the Silver Spring, Maryland “cooks”, Donald, put it this way: “A grand evening. A sumptuous feast in the middle of some amazing art and artists.” Not only was our dinner…
Can’t remember how many years ago we met in your kitchen, Paulette. But I know the connection was Italian Notebook where you’d read my stories of life in Italy. I’m still writing…
“…Ten years of trying to find a spot in one of your classes: I finally got in! It was worth the wait! I finally found you!..” Lorraine wrote after our Bethesda class,…
Am I just giving out recipes to the cooking classes? I hope not. I want to teach far more than Umbrian rural cuisine: I want to share with U.S. cooking classes the…
What makes “a magical night”? Diane and Bill know: “Whenever friends and food come together, it is a magical night,” they wrote to me at the end of our bellissimo McLean VA.…
“…. a wonderful evening of cooking, laughing and eating!” is how Pauline summed up our Ocean View, Delaware evening, adding, “You remind me of my times with my Italian mother-in-law.” And host…
“Thank you for serving up some soul,” Jen wrote after our Lexington class. After all, Jen continued, “At the end of every day, it should be like this – good people, communal…