by Gilda Valdez Carbonaro & Gilda Claudine Karasik

Monday, December 20, 2010

The Big Idea




I’m not exactly sure when the idea for this project took form in my mind, but it was not long ago.  A matter of weeks, really.  I experienced the idea as a subconscious simulcast transmitting to both my mind and my mouth;  the memory of birthing the idea is fused with my phone call to Gilda V.C. one December morning.  It went something like this:
Me: “Gilda, I have this crazy idea.  We should write a bilingual cookbook together of our grandmothers’ recipes.  We can blog about it.  Think Julie and Julia meets Like Water for Chocolate.  What do you think?”
Gilda V.C.:  “I’ll do it!  I’ll do it!”
And so our project and partnership were born.

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