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	Gary Antonuk-Lis. Gary was born in Michigan and lives there today, but has lived in Colorado, Oklahoma, and Kentucky as well as Hedielberg and Wiesbaden, Germany .His culinary world opened further when he married a Filipino woman. He loves to cook, and has kept some family recipes though he says "my own kids love my Mexican cooking best and my friends love my Asian and Soul food the best." Read Gary's story to learn about his spirit of adventure.

	Valerie Berg. Val's daughters chose the words bake bread as part of her e-mail address to remind her to send them the recipes for her banana peanut chocolate loaf and her banana chocolate loaf. Val teaches cooking to middle school children. She states that she exercises so she can eat forbidden foods. It works - she is trim, taut, and dynamic.

	Kerstin Bergstrom. Her children claim she is a true Swedish nightingale as she sings when she cooks. Her recipes for anchovy puffs, and for cabbage, pork & rosemary soup sound so beautiful that we want to sing just thinking about them. Also try her apple dumplings, her pumpkin cookie, and St. Lucy's buns (lussekatter).

	Anne-Marie Bordonaro. Anne-Marie grew up in Tunis and moved to Marseilles, but her heart is in the recipes of her old country. Her son Phillippe Gatto, remembers picnics in the country and helping in the kitchen. Inspired by his mother, he went on to be a baker and is the owner of ALCAZAR. Try Anne-Marie's recipes for harissa, salata mishwayaa, a sauce for tuna or eggs, and for a Tunisian ragout of lamb.

	Patty Butler Much to our good fortune, Patty is a regular contributor to inmamaskitchen. She has sent us pumpkin pie recipes and a loving story of her mother, Mayme Okell. She has been a stay-at-home mom and has lived in many regions of the United States. Try her cheddar cheese apple pie. It is sugarless and can be enjoyed by diabetic. Also try her meringue cookies at Christmas.

	Marla Clark Marla is the administrator of an accounting firm while also working toward a degree in child psychology. One of her interests centers on the link between diet and behavior in children. She and her husband share happy hours in the kitchen. Read about her grandmother Helynn Hart and try her recipe for low fat eggplant parmesan

	Chris Cooke. Chris is a writer and filmmaker. He describes himself as "a purveyor of all things fine, whose tastes range from a fine chateau to a humble apple pie - although his culinary attempts often result in scorched earth, tongues, or both." Read Chris's article about the first fast food in existence - fish and chips. your plaice or mine

	Stacy Cooper. Stacy lives in Boston, travels the country as a training consultant and spends summers on the Maine coast, cooking dinners at Hattie's Restaurant. Stacy inherited her passion for good cooking from both her parents. At sixteen she wrote a cookbook entitled 'The Garbage Gourmet,' a title bestowed upon her by astonished friends and family when she produced impressive meals from a seemingly empty refrigerator. Stacy believes in improvisational cooking; making the best of what's available and understanding the principles of good cooking in order to bend the rules and experiment freely. Please read her articles: the best cook and returning to hattie's

	Michelle DeLizio Podlesni . Michelle has a passion for cooking, writing and reading. She has traveled nationally extensively, having been a former software executive, nurse and a corpsman in the USN. Michelle's exposure to US regional cooking as well as her rich Italian heritage provides her with hours of fun in the kitchen and with her pen. Try her pumpkin pie.

	Monika Kramer Copeland. Monika has gifted us with two stories - one about her mother, and another about a woman she met while traveling. Both stories are about resilient women which may be something Monika recognizes. Read the stories: alice kramer and edith grandl.

	Maurine Crawford. Maurine is from British Guyana where Saturday is a cooking day, not a shopping day. True to her traditions, she maintained Saturday as a day for being in the kitchen with her children. Try the coconut buns which were her Saturday treat to her children.	top of page

	Angshuman Das. Angshuman is new media professional with a background in journalism. He has worked on newspapers in India and the United States as a writer and copy editor. He earned a Master of Mass Communications degree from the Univ. of South Carolina. He also worked as a cook under chef Al Kennedy and is writing a book to be titled: Eating for the Heart: Cooking Fish in Bengal. Read about his mother, namita das and try his recipe for Bengali fish.

	Glenn DuHart. Glenn is known as 'The Chocolate Man'. He holds certificates in Baking and Cooking. He is currently in the process of relocating from Ottawa, Ontario to London, England. Try Glenn's chocolate snowball's

	George Dvorak George began his working life as a TV repair man, but learned physics and general electronics while on the job. This led to work at Cal. Tech where he maintained a computer system for processing radio-astronomy. From here, his curiosity led him to computer programming. Today he is semi-retired. Read about growing up on a farm. Try George's strudel or his goulash.

	Debbie Farrell. Debbie lives in Massachusetts. She is romantic and experimental and has discovered the 'old' ways to cook. Read about my glorious discovery.

	Wayne Ferrell. Wayne is a family man and a lover of good food. He has contributed a funny account of a a family Christmas, The Knave of Hearts. Read his story to understand what he means when he says that he never chases children from the kitchen.

	Angelo Filigenzi. Angelo is a musician who played with the Phoenix Symphony for 42 years. He was also the music librarian for 25 of those years. Angelo first played with he Symphony when he was fifteen. "As a 15 year old and the youngest member of the PSO I was pretty nervous about the whole thing but that passed as I realized the other people were very supporting. Even the conductor---at times." In addition to making music, he loves to cook. Try his recipe for home made Italian sausage.

	Carmen Flak. Carmen was one of the first members to sign up on the site. Carmen is both a writer and an expert on authentic Italian cooking. We have asked her questions more than once, and she has always been ready to help. She says of herself: "I am a writer, a gourmet, a gourmand, a chocoholic who loves having parties. The more the merrier! My daughters know they can always bring someone to my table and they will be benvenuto! " Please read her articles: cooking with mom, and in the pied piper's kitchen. Her newest article is formaggio which includes a poem she wrote in Italian!

	Maria Giannola. Maria emigrated from Sicily while just a girl. She left poverty behind only to be greeted by the depression. A buoyant spirit, she found ways to enrich her kitchen without great resources.	top of page

	Meryl Grebe. Meryl Grebe is a South African who lives with her husband Johan in a rural village in picturesque Kwazulu Natal. A regular contributor to various glossy magazines of articles on the many historical areas in the region, Meryl owned a successful Italian restaurant for more than three years.Please read her articles: sunup in south africa, comfort food in south africa, a solo valentine, the true story of st. valentine (with menu), tannie babs of babanango, a fishy tale for valentine's day. macaroni and cheese and hot, cross bunny. Her new articles are war and food: surviving a concentration camp in south africa. Also read Cape Malay Cooking.

	Ilka Hilton-Clarke. Ilka has lived around the world and done many things. Currently she designs web sites and practices the fine art of batik. Read her account of getting from Holland to Trinidad and get some wonderful recipes.

	Isobel Lane. Isobel was born on London but brought up in Farnborough, Hampshire where the biannual air show is held. She has lived in London since she was a student at the Royal College of music. She went in as an oboist & came out as a singer. She worked in music retail before joining the Civil Service. She took an early retirement and now prefers to care for her husband and her stepson. A creative cook, she has sent us her own recipe for London Hotpot as well as her leek and mushroom hotpot. Also try her elegant apple meringue and her delicious, crusty whole wheat health bread.

	Barb Lewis. "I learned to cook from my Grandma Halling in Michigan, where I spent each summer, and big holidays. I have raised six terrific kids, who have thus far produced nine grandchildren, and two great-grand-daughters. I do a zillion crafts, with a little one always handy to join me. I also design furniture, and birthday cakes. Never been one to not have a project. I have been in California since 1976, and live in THE most wonderful city of all, San Diego." Try Barb's recipe for cranberriy relish, and heed her warning on microwaves.

	Helen McKay Helen has been a stay-at-home mom. She has lived in Florida since 1973. She worked as a volunteer for Hospice which is where she met her husband. They have been married 22 years. Helen has two children, a girl, Pat, and a boy, John. Read her story skipping a generation, and try her recipe for Bolognese.

	Samantha Meddleton. "Sam was a quiet, sensitive, self contained little person. She read voraciously and was extremely adventurous. She's a fine athlete. She is a cook, like her mother, using every available pot and space in the kitchen, and she always tinkers with recipes. She is always prompt to write down changes." by her mom, Valerie Berg. Try Sam's prize-winning vegan pumpkin pie.

	Barbara Paley-Israel. Barbara is a writer living in NYC where she counsels people who battle multiple sclerosis. Two outstanding mentors have had a profound influence on her - Professor/author Martha F. Black who is also a sister/friend of the first order and the 19th Century poet, Emily Dickinson. Read how she and her sister/friend Martha F. Black celebrate Bloomsday. Also see Barbara's recipes for Rosh Hashanah Honey Cake and "Lentil" Chopped liver. Try her easy potato latkes.


	Valorie Paul: Valorie lives in the Ozark hills of Missouri, where southern cooking and hillbilly history are as much a part of the area as the red, rocky soil. Valorie's family tries a different strange meat every Thanksgiving holiday, and her idea of the perfect Sunday is to spend all day long immersed in poetry and simmering an impossibly delicious soup.

	Elisa Penn: Elisa is an actress who divides time between New York and LA She loves cooking so much that she claims to have well-stocked kitchens on both coasts. We hope she is less shy about applause for her acting than her cooking as she has modestly sent many recipes. Try a few of these:honey baked lentils, deviled egg dip, pickled eggs and beets.

	Nancey Spaith: Though she has worked outside her home, Nancey's greatest pleasure is volunteer work, and she has offered her talents to diverse groups from the 4H to the ballet to Mid-Ameria Mensa. Currently, she is president of the Kansas City St. Andrew Society, whose purpose is to preserve and foster our Scottish heritage here in the Kansas City area. She and her husband share their home with Sherpa and Nappy, their cats.

	William Robinson. Bill is a journalist, traveler and food explorer, known to discover new foods even while climbing the mighty Andes (pictured here at Machu Picchu). He was in the Marine Corps and worked as both a special agent and an operating engineer for the Southern Pacific RR. Today he lives in Santa Barbara, but you can read about his early years in cuisine in Detroit, 1940 and his discovery of quinoa in the Andes.

	Marge Vallazza. Marge has been writing poetry since she was 12 years old. She writes, publishes and performs poetry. Of Scottish/Mexican descent, she has published various articles in Spanish and English, especially in the area of genealogy. Please read first foot, a story about her Scottish mother.

	Anne Vanderburg. Anne wrote us asking if we had a recipe for green tomato pie.€¬%Ã†£