About

“It is one of the greatest feelings known to humans, the feeling of being the host, of hosting people, of being the person to whom they come for food and drink and company.”

Secrets from a Caterer’s Kitchen

I love having friends over, enjoying their company and sharing food and drink together. Part of the fun is the preparation, whether it be planning and cooking the meal, decorating my home or making sure my garden is groomed during the summer…and I love doing all of it…yes I do have friends that call me Martha!

I’ve had a web development business (Kinetic Webs) since 1995 and the very first website I created was for recipes! I decided that if I was going to put my education to good use, a site for my passion would serve not only as a useful tool for myself but as a good example for clients.  For years the recipes were at the domain name I’m using now while I started a new food blog at www.creative-culinary.com. I had an epiphany of sorts this year (2011) and decided to bring it all together with the name I had started with, so Vino Luci Style is now Creative Culinary, again. It sort of does feel like coming home again! I’ll never be able to recreate and photograph all those years of favorite dishes but hope to eventually get them all on the site, even if without photos or a story to share…sometimes it’s just as simple as wanting to share simply good food.

A friend of mine gave me the book Secrets from a Caterer’s Kitchen as a gift and I love that one of the main reasons was that she thought of me when she read that line I’ve quoted above. It is what I love to do and now I love sharing the foods I prepare not just with my friends and family but also online through recipes and photographs.

I’ve been fortunate to have been able to incorporate my own experience in building a blog to my web business and have become a resource for many other bloggers. I recommend self hosted WordPress software at BlueHost for client sites and can assist with websites from the very beginning of the process; including the transfer of sites from Blogger or the free WordPress option. It can be a complicated process and many bloggers recognize the need for professional expertise to insure their new site incorporates components that will not see them lose traffic or revenue. For some examples of sites we’ve developed for food bloggers, please visit my portfolio at Kinetic Webs.

I hope you use this site to find a new recipe, learn more about some wines we’ve enjoyed and let me know you were here!

Thank you for visiting…and enjoy!