@Piccolina
I'm a creative soul, and a total homebody. I love to cook and am forever reading cookbooks and "guinea pigging" my family with new experiments. I'm a Canadian living in Ireland, married to a truly wonderful Italian man. We are each other's soul mates, and every day with my husband is better than the next. He is my greatst source of strength and insperation. I'm a writer and a homemaker, who is never far from a pen, a computer or the kitchen. I have several chronic illnesses which leave me in continual pain, but I don't let them stop me from trying to live a "normal" life. Because of some of these conditions (like Interstitial Cystitis and IBS) I've had to eliminate some foods from my diet. Yet I found that instead of this discouraging my love of cooking and cuisine it has only helped to make it stronger. As I adapt old favourites to make them safe for me to eat and find new favourites amongst the ingredients that I can consume. I belive that my mom is the best cook in the world, and I owe not only the majority of my cooking skills, but also my whole character and nature to her. She is my role model, and an angel on earth.