La Maison de Falaise: Enter as strangers, leave as friends

May 7, 2010 by Robin Salts Beckett  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kathy Sali

By Robin Beckett

Photos by Chad Bremerman

As soon as you walk through the door and inhale the smells wafting from the stove, you’re hooked.

During one of her recent cooking classes, Kathy Sali’s home kitchen filled up quickly. Students streamed in and mingled with each other, and the smells of garlic and mango being chopped on a cutting board by guest chef Frank Magana of Prosser’s Picazo Seven Seventeen restaurant.

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Bon Appetit!

November 2, 2009 by Robin Salts Beckett  

Members of the Bon Appetit dinner club trade laughs while in the kitchen.

Members of the Bon Appetit dinner club trade laughs while in the kitchen.

Photos by Chad Bremerman

Today’s foodies might find themselves in a bit of a pickle: loving to cook, yet lacking the time it requires to don an apron, turn to the dog-eared page they’ve been salivating over for weeks and get chopping.

Enter the dinner club.

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