Kitchen Tasting Tour will please the palate
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Julie Bertoline in the kitchen of her Greensburg home, which is a stop on the Art in the Kitchen Tasting Tour to benefit the Westmorland Museum of American Art.
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The 2011 Art in the Kitchen Tasting Tour will be held Oct. 1 at six homes in Greensburg, Latrobe and Ligonier. The annual event offers food samplings at each stop made from recipes in "Art in the Kitchen," a cookbook published in 1995 by the Women's Committee of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art.
Participants on the self-driving tour receive a guidebook with directions that also includes a favorite recipe from each host. The tour runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., tour chairwoman Susan Kiren said.
The main event at each stop is the kitchen, but guides also will point out highlights of the homes' first floors and landscaping.
The Greensburg home of Filippa and Joe Ponsi has a grand stairway in the entry with a hand-painted Italian fresco and lion-head fountains. The kitchen is entered through French doors and features granite countertops and a custom-built desk. Visitors exit through a two-story conservatory.
Nearby, the home of Julie Bertoline and her family has a Tuscan/Mediterranean interior with an iron-forged spiral staircase and Italian tapestry. A granite-topped island bar and stainless steel appliances complement marble-patterned floor tiles and a gas fireplace.
The third Greensburg site is a new patio home near Totteridge Golf Course. The kitchen is part of an open floor plan.
A dramatic stone hearth that opens to both living room and kitchen is the focal point in the Latrobe home of Karen and Ryan Scarton. A spacious kitchen gains charm from pecan cabinetry and granite countertops.
The Country French Tudor home of Pam and William Burkland, built in Ligonier 18 years ago, has a unique inlaid Turkish desk. The kitchen's gold antique-finish granite countertop was custom-built, and the floor is made of salvaged 200-year-old longleaf pine.
First Published September 22, 2011 5:51 am
