Welcome to my kitchen at Steele’s Vineyard in Charles City, Virginia on the banks of the Chickahominy River. Cooking Drunk includes personal recipes from Oregon, Ohio, Virginia, California, the South, France, Spain, and Italy. Each recipe is very special new insights from friends and family. They show the best learning basics from my mother’s kitchen. I pursue a connection between warmth, richness, friends sharing meals together and a hunger satisfied.

I have been writing this cookbook for over ten years in between my life changes. Pressured by several friends to get on with it, 2009 is my year.