PassionFoodTruffles.com
Title
Passionfood Truffles
Description
This is supposed to be a story that offers a new way of thinking about Central Market's well-known and wildly popular cooking school. A story about gathering a group of friends -- as few as five or as many as 25 -- and embarking on a culinary adventure. It is supposed to be a story about hosting a birthday party at Central Market's cooking school and to that end, benefiting from a private consultation with a well-known chef, not to mention taking home a neat little stack of recipes as a party favor.
In its new incarnation, my story will still promote Central Market Cooking School as a great party destination. But while celebrating a friend's 34th birthday there last month, I encountered unexpected inspiration in the form of one racy Vespaio chef. Her name is Mary Perna, and she has stolen the show.
Our party group, dominating the back rows of the cooking school and joyously downing French wine at a pace the school clearly considered breakneck, might have been intimidating to your average chef. Instead, Perna blew us away. She appeared before us boldly. No ordinary chef's whites for her. No way! Her class, titled "Cooking for Love," was part of the school's Valentine's series, and she came prepared to scintillate -- titillate, even -- in her spaghetti-strapped top and black feather boa, tendrils of brunet curls spilling over her shoulders.
