“Remember When...” 30 Years of Friendship and Food

From Michelle Thies — Blog by Michelle Thies

September 13, 2009

Picture it, Long Island, September 1979. On a late summer day, two young girls meet at the bus stop on their way to the first day of school. I was five years old and about to attend my first day of kindergarten, Erin was six entering first grade. We were on our way to St. Mary’s School, all decked out in plaid skirts, polyester vests and bilevel haircuts (now known as the mullet). Little did these two girls know at the time, that they would remain friends for life.

We are celebrating thirty years of friendship this month and there have been a lot of ups and downs, twists and turns, highs and lows. Buy whenever we get together, there is always two things that seem to happen, we eat and have belly laughs!

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An Italian Grandma’s Legacy

From Michelle Thies — Blog by Michelle Thies

September 7, 2009

Recently I started to reflect on how I got interested in cooking. When I thought back to my childhood, I think it was the legacy of my Italian Grandmother that heightened my interest. She passed away when I was only three years old, but I do have a faint memory of this big jovial woman with red hair squeezing my cheeks over and over, and getting quite annoyed that she wouldn’t stop! When I was older, I would ask questions in order to get a sense of this wonderful woman. It always struck me that the first thing anyone said was, “No one was a better cook then your grandmother!” That phrase was then followed by cherished stories of food and love.

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Julie and Julia

From Michelle Thies — Blog by Michelle Thies

August 30, 2009

I recently saw the movie Julie and Julia, and I felt as if I was watching my own life. Julie, like me, has a job in which she sits at a cubicle and basically gets yelled at all day, and when she comes home, she uses cooking as an escape. This is exactly my life. I sit in my grey cubicle during the day, and after fielding through calls from bill collectors, emails from the insureds demanding something be done right this minute, and claimants who never seem to get their checks, I often look around and say “How did I end up here?”

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