Succotash

Two years ago, at the U.S. Open of tennis, I was invited to do a demonstration cooking class with the wonderful Venus Williams. I love doing demonstrations, and I was really looking forward to doing this with Venus. Her management told me she was pretty easygoing and it would not take a lot of effort to get her to help me cook onstage. The only caveat was that Venus was vegan. That made sense: a top-flight athlete adhering to a strict diet, seeing the practical and logical training methodol