cooking, baking, cake decorating, frugality, books, gardening

My Expertise: My expertise is cooking, which I inherited from my Italian grandmoher, whose kitchen was an explosion for the senses: rich garlicky sauces, brilliant green basil, fat fresh tomatoes that practically smiled at you and yeasty fresh bread....
more cooking, baking, cake decorating, frugality, books, gardening

My Expertise: My expertise is cooking, which I inherited from my Italian grandmoher, whose kitchen was an explosion for the senses: rich garlicky sauces, brilliant green basil, fat fresh tomatoes that practically smiled at you and yeasty fresh bread.
I was helped along by Julia Child, who became my mentor when I was 12, and she was a lithe 40-something, black-and-white, on our local PBS station.
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