Now this is some seriously good and genuine hearty Italian bread!  This Italian bread and butter has also been what has truly nourished and sustained me.  My Italian family has always loved and supported me without ever asking for any credit.  I have already thanked my Mexican mother, so I dedicate this good and hearty Italian bread and butter to the Italian side of my family for giving me such a genuinely meaningful, loving, and supportive family life.  Here's something I've learned from experience:  You can have all the talent in the world, but it means nothing if you don't have a healthy, loving, and genuine supportive family behind you.  So I thank God I have my Italian family for that!  My Italian family is very generous, humble, modest, and has been quietly kept the background of everything I do.  It has also been a solid and constant moral support system and the backbone of my happy family life.  My private family life is more valuable to me than gold!  One lesson that is more clear to me now than ever, especially after finding ways to be happy and thrive together during a pandemic, is that my private family life is my greatest blessing.  So I thank my Italian family for always lifting my spirits and for all the love and support I've received throughout the years...  

 

I would also like take a minute to thank YOU.  Unless you're an author, I know many of you may just breeze through this exhibition without even realizing how many months of sleepless nights and hard work went into finally completing this online exhibition.  After completing a previously large exhibition titled "Barefoot In France", I was so exhausted I actually had to stay in bed for an entire week to recover and regain my strength...  I could have just as easily written a book.  So after I finally recovered I swore I would never do a large exhibition EVER again!  However, "The Art of Cuisine" came with many of its own unforeseeable challenges.  It featured so many meals and each had to be planned, created, and organized.  This unique exhibit around my dinner table also required even much more in terms of charting completely new paths into the culinary arts.  So I had to learn new cooking and culinary skills that I did not have before I set on this journey.  Here's the good news:  In the end, even though it turned out to be the most challenging and largest online exhibition to date for Zermeno Museum, "The Art of Cuisine" has been the most rewarding exhibit for me personally because it was shared with my loving family.  And we not only survived but because of their love and support we even "thrived" during a pandemic, which made it that much more "sweet" and meaningful!