Greetings!

I am a Home Cook with a Passion for fine home dining.

I have been cooking and studying foods for almost thirty years (having started at age eight). Five years ago, giving in to requests for classes, OLD TOWN COOKING SCHOOL ("OTCS") was created to teach - and to learn from - other home cooks and foodies, just like us.

OTCS is dedicated to using the best ingredients and to making meals interesting as well as nutritious. Providing the students with the best teachers in the business, OTCS will "shout out" worthy discoveries, and fight for the preservation of classics in the world of food. Paid endorsements of any kind are not accepted, so OTCS can freely share our experiences, discoveries and insights in a straightforward way with the students.

Home Cooks are the best Food Researchers.

Bonne Addresse is the French term used when friends share a particularly good establishment, tradesman or purveyor of just about anything. OTCS uses it in our work to share our findings with you.

Our Flâneurs: travelers who explore and wander - with style.

OTCS's friends will fill us in on their discoveries, from farmers' markets in New Orleans to dining in London, San Francisco, New York, Italy and France. In addition, OTCS will be "shouting out" about our food findings near and far from our Pasadena homes.