Heirloom Meals Radio - Giulia Melucci's Love Affairs with Food and Men - All Revealed in her Memoir - I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti

Giulia Melucci's book dedication: For my mother, who taught me how to cook and how to love. That sums up Giulia - a passionate Italian-American who loves food, cooking and family. Giulia shares her quest for love through the meals she cooks for her boyfriends in her memoir, I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti. It is a witty, self-effacing, often funny account of Giulia's love life and the food she cooks - for love, to assuage a broken heart, and for pure joy.
Giulia represents all that Heirloom Meals aims to capture - a love of one's past captured through food memories and taking those meal memories and tweaking them for our current lives - "savoring yesterday's traditions today."
Thank you Giulia!!

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Heirloom Meals Radio - How Christopher Blair's Love of Food Chemistry Translates into a Lifetime Joy of Cooking

Christopher Blair grew up in Connecticut in the 1950's in a typical home where Mom always served home-cooked meals. But it was Chris's time in college that helped him evolve into an intuitive cook, a bread baker and lover of seasonal ingredients. One of Chris' favorite books: The Cook Book Decoder or Culinary Alchemy Explained by Arthur Grosser, helps him think about how different foods interact with seasonings from chemistry point of view.
Chris does a brilliant job fusing the art and science of cooking. Who would ever think of pairing pate' with ground coffee beans or ground chocolate?

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Heirloom Meals Radio - Red Lion Inn Chef, Brian Alberg Shares His History

Make no mistake about it Brian Alberg's innovative comfort food derives its roots from Brian's upbringing closely connected to the land and farmers in Copake, NY. He broadened that connection through his apprenticeships in restaurants since the age of 14 and his degree from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY. Brian was a true advocate of slow food and the locavore movement way before they became "movements!"

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