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Television and radio appearances, speaking engagements• Featured as a home design expert on various segments of HGTV • Speaker at the Boston Society of Architects Residential Design Show, April 2005. Topic: Designing guest rooms and cottages • Guest speaker at House Beautiful and the Boston Design Center’s Design Days • Guest speaker on interior design at The Boston Center for Adult Education • Guest speaker at the 92nd Street Y, 2005. Topic: The Fifth Taste, Cooking with Umami • Guest Speaker Slow Food Membership, Boston. Topic: The Fifth Taste, Cooking with Umami • 2006 Spring/summer talks. The Institute of Culinary Education, NYC; French Culinary Institute, NYC., The Culinary Institute of America, and various New England libraries. Topic: The Fifth Taste • Keynote speaker at Endicott College’s June 2004 graduation; received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. Member of the Author’s Guild, Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America, IACP and Slow Food. |
Hobbies: Hand-built porcelain pottery, Photography (exhibited in Boston gallery). |