I looked at the waiter with utter confusion- I had no idea what he just said to me. Was he telling me the specials? Or that they were out of the chicken? Maybe that they only took cash? I had a pretty decent handle on a couple of languages…but Italian wasn’t one of them.  And […]

Recently I was asked, and happily accepted, to do some cooking and baking at a relatives’s house for their pre-wedding party. It was absolutely my pleasure and since I was flying in for the occasion, I couldn’t bring any of my own kitchen tools (for some reason the TSA frowns at sharp knives in your […]