Now she lives in Santa Fe, with a Labradoodle named Dante — "He looked like he would be a bit heaven and hell," she told me over the phone — and her husband, the painter Patrick McFarlin, whom she met "over an olive-pitting pizza session," according to a new edition of "Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone," published earlier this month.
In recent years, President Clinton brought his love of jazz and late-night pizza policy sessions to the White House, while under President Bush, the South Lawn became home to country music and Texas-style barbecue.
After the pizza-making session, Mr. Batali headed to nearby Leland to do errands and stopped in at the local bookstore to sign copies of his cookbooks, and that evening he stopped in at an outdoor concert in Northport.
Guests are invited to a weekly pizza-making session – the dough and toppings are provided, so all you have to do is assemble it and feed it into the huge wood-fired oven.
To help participants through the scheduled two-hour session, pizza and a $50 stipend were also provided.
In the meantime, ongoing activities of the group include regular meetings for tea and coffee that act as informal networking and Q&A sessions; pizza nights with faculty members, where students have the chance to ask faculty how they have managed their careers; and monthly meetings with guest academics.
Two fun techniques used previously are lunch-time or end-of-day training and planning sessions that provide pizza and soft drinks, and sessions that feature some form of non-threatening competition (e.g., between physicians using the system and physicians not using the system, or between nurses performing physician-related functions on the system and physicians performing nurse-related functions).
She and Mr. Sperone met with Mr. Foster for an informal brainstorming session over pizza on a mountaintop in St. Moritz, where the architect has a home — and cobbled together a vision of a unique high-rise gallery.
Instead of moving on to Chicago, where they were to have performed in the venerable Symphony Center on Wednesday, they remained stranded in Ann Arbor, Mich., where several of the players joined a jam session in a pizza joint.
Mondays end late with beer, pizza, and a long lecture session with Thomas.
Whether it's post-football or during a study session for exams, pizza absolutely dominates this time slot.
