One of the first friends I made when we moved to the suburbs, I met when we both volunteered for one of our local museums. Her name is Katie and we spent a lot of time together on committees, discovering that we enjoyed many of the same things, in particular cooking. One of the parties the museum held every year was an opening for its annual Christmas Tree exhibit and it was incumbent upon the volunteers to prepare and serve the food for the event. For a couple of years, Katie and I would help plan the menu and supervise the preparation of some of the food. We had lots of fun figuring out what to make and bringing our individual food perspectives into the mix.