Article: Danny Kaye leaves a delightful cooking legacy

Several weeks after I opened a cooking school and cookware shop in Southern California, I received a telephone call.

"I hear you have the most beautiful cooking school in the United States," the male voice on the other end of the wire exclaimed. "When can I come to see it?"

"Store hours are from 9 until 6," I replied.

"Thanks," he said.

I was about to hang up when I heard, "Wait, don't you want to know who this is?"

"Who is it?" I inquired impatiently.

"Danny Kaye. In fact," he said, "why don't you come and see my Chinese kitchen?"

So I did. Several days later he visited my school and two people both passionately involved with cooking became fast friends.

Danny loved to ...

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