first reply! (*update – Amy’s sent her fava bean recipe!)

Well  Amy,  one of my best friends who lives in Chicago, was the first to reply. Amy (of fava bean fame) and I met for the first time about six years ago when she was in LA for a wedding and we were living there. We have mutual friends, who grew up and went to college together. We reconnected when J/B and I moved to Chicago in 2005, and realized that we share a passion for many of the same things – from food…to Sex & The City. It was all serendipitous really.Anyway, we are plotting and planning a career advancement in the culinary field. More to come on that.

So Amy asked if she could forward it to her good friends Sandra and Sarah to which my reply was “of course”! Tu famiglia es mi famiglia, or something like that…Anyway, I always said it’s never a party until someone you don’t know shows up, so things are looking up. (I have met Sarah once I might add, years ago at the Standard Hotel in LA…and have heard so much about both of them, I feel I know them!).

*UPDATE: Amy has sent her fava bean recipe. It looks awesome. She’s derived it from Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse Vegetables cookbook. Now I have to go out and find some favas…(and below is a picture of us on a cruise this February)