Jennifer Perillo

Mine is not the romantic story of a girl who grew up surrounded by a love of cooking. My family was more about the love of eating. There were many Thanksgivings where baked ziti served as the precursor to the turkey main course. Then, there's the reality of being a child of the 70's. Rice-a-Roni wasn't just a San Francisco treat. It was a regular in my mom's cooking catalog along with mashed potat...