The dishes that chef Terri Conderino creates at Café Flo at the Florence Griswold Museum are things of diverse deliciousness. The offerings range from spinach vichyssoise to lobster, avocado and corn salad to dirty chips (rustic chips, melted blue cheese, bacon and scallions) to lemon mousse with fresh berries.
But cooking wasn’t always Conderino’s forte. She wasn’t someone who spent her early years poring over recipes, studying the culinary arts and whipping up exotic creations.
After graduating from East Lyme High School, Conderino (nee Painter) wed and was a stay-at-home mom to her four children for two decades. Despite some flair for whipping up desserts when her kids were young, the dinners she made leaned more to the routine side. She eventually returned to the workforce, doing bartending and serving and then delving into food services.
The Day - Now she s cookin : Café Flo head chef Terri Conderino took a roundabout route to discovering her culinary talent
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The Day - Now she s cookin : Café Flo head chef Terri Conderino took a roundabout route to discovering her culinary talent
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Published July 12. 2021 12:01AM
Concerning, “Pause and beware of ‘separate but equal’” in The Day, (July 5). As a white anti-racist and retired East Lyme High School guidance counselor, I wholeheartedly support the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Plan accepted by the East Lyme Board of Education and superintendent.
As Matthew Borelli writes in his op-ed, multiculturalism should be the end game of the plan, and having a single member of each racial cohort will not truly represent the cohort. Whether East Lyme is “exclusive” in offering equal opportunity and equal treatment is not in question; the question is in what ways is the school system exclusive and how should these ways be addressed.