Cooking and entertaining have always been a passion of mine, and how could they not be, given that I grew up in a home where dinner parties, which took the place of camping trips, were organized by a hostess who was the magna cum laude of her graduating year at Le Cordon Bleu Academy in Paris...My mother...my inspiration - Lady Jane Kobani. Why Paris? That was one of the many places we had the pleasure of living in when my father, Ambassador George Kobani (now retired), was a diplomat representing the Nigerian government. Hence, my international traveling career started at 7 months old. In...