I'm back and I've missed you.

For any of you that have followed my blog in the past, I must apologize for the year-long absence. When I wrote the last post in January of '08 I really did think that I was just taking the month of February off...well that turned out quite differently than planned. Lisa and I decided to close the cooking school at that point so that I could figure out what I wanted to do when I grew up. After more than a year of deep soul searching I have come full circle in discovering that teaching cooking classes gives me more joy than anything else I could dream of doing for a living. To that end.....pause for effect.....we will be re-opening the school in April under a new name and a new format/concept. Gardenroad Cooking School will open its doors the first weekend of April 2009. Weekend long, multi-day, immersion style cooking class programs will be our new format so that I can really spend a lot of quality time with my students and be able to provide much more hands-on participation during the classes. We will also be including much more gardening info, tips, tricks and troublshooting this time around coupled with spending at least some class time out in our 16,000 square foot garden (weather permitting). I should have the new website up and running in a week or so, please visit it when you have the time so that you can read more about the new school and our classes.