"Taste as Nature has endowed us with it is still that one of our senses which gives us the greatest joy...because it can mingle with all the other pleasures, and even console us for their absence" Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste (1755-1826) M.F.K. Fisher once wrote "Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly". Since early childhood, the enjoyment of food has been one of the scaffolds on which I have built my life. That is not to say it's an obsession or mission but, rather, the natural culmination of my exploration of life. While growing up en famille , our household always had dinners together, my mother doing all the cooking despite having a full-time career as an interior decorator. Her meals were wonderful, originating from her own mother's Eastern European styles, her mother-in-law's Dutch/Germanic recipes, and