Arugula salad with persimmons, beets and burrata
I have a bad habit in my classes of demonstrating a recipe and then going on and on about all the ways to tweak it.  It’s one of my favorite dorky cooking
I come from a large Italian-American family with 28 first cousins (on one side of the family!) where sit-down holiday dinners for 85 people are the norm (how, you might ask – organization! But more on that later …).
Some of my fondest memories are of simple family gatherings, both large and small, with long tables of bowls and platters piled high, the laughter of my cousins echoing and the comfort of tradition warming my soul.