Food and love go hand in hand. They evoke the same passionate feelings. When you indulge, you feel satisfied, warm, happy, comforted, peaceful, relaxed, soothed, grateful, safe, loved, complete, and at times, erotic.

For several years my vision was to write a fabulous cookbook. As my food expertise expanded, which encompassed owning my own catering company, which included food consulting and design; my feature in a national magazine, namely Sunset Magazine and the Sunset Annual Cookbook, my first book signing at Barnes and Noble Books, my own television cooking show, author of a quarterly cooking newsletter, guest chef appearances on "Good Day Sacramento" and a cooking instructor, I was certain that my cookbook was on the horizon