In Donald Margulies' play, Dinner with Friends, one of the couples, Gabe and Karen, are food writers who start the show by recounting their experience in Italy with a seasoned cook. They respond to not just the food, but to the specific details and emotions behind each step the woman teaching them took. In the play
SOURCE: blog.roundabouttheatre.org at 01:50PM on April 4, 2014