Restaurant Review: Osteria Savio Volpe

Last year, I took a cooking class (for roman style pizza) from a chef named Peter Cuiffa (aka Pasta Boy Peter) who mentioned that he worked at Osteria Savio Volpe. Since then, the restaurant was on my to-do list. So on a spring weekend, we went. Savio Volpe (I think this roughly translates to “Wise…

Cooking Class: Tokyo Sumida

When I visit a new country, I like to take a cooking class, so while on vacation in Tokyo, we arranged to do just that. We met the class teacher at a nearby train station, and walked to the nearby studio.  It was generous sized space on the second floor of a low rise industrial building. …