Cooking with Josephine

"Josephine Enizan was born [in 1897] in the village of Pont-Scorff in Brittany....In Paris, with the help of the Louis Loucheur family, Josephine attended the Cordon Bleu for four years...In 1924, on one of their trips to Europe, the Mortimer Fleischhackers of San Francisco dined at the Loucheurs' house, met Josephine, and asked if she would come to America and cook for them. Josephine traveled to San Francisco and stayed, working for many prominent families, including the George Oppens, Joseph Tobins, Charles Figgenbaums, Isaias Hellmans, and opera singer Lily Pons. Josephine met Charles Araldo in 1925, took the initiative to propose to him, and after a whirlwind courtship of two weeks, they were married...Josephine and Charles live in San Francisco, where she devotes her time to teaching and cooking for the fathers of Notre Dames des Victoires, the church in which she and Charles were married. Her love of life and sense of humor have never diminished, which one realizes in reading the stories she shares in this book as she shares with her students" -- p. 3.