Mediterranean, Italian, traditional family recipes that have been handed down for generations. Christmas cookies and Thanksgiving family meals. Those cherished few times when every dish reaches perfection at exactly the same time and all of the dinner guests have arrived and everyone is having a great time and are ready to set down to eat... Doesn't get any better :) The beautiful Peppermint Cake on the cover of a Southern Living Christmas magazine! No one could eat it and it was so heavy that it broke my old pressed glass cake stand in half. The only true, Southern Living recipe disaster I've ever had :).....