email this pageThis Mother’s Day will be a very special holiday for Rozanne—one that she’ll experience with both great loss and poignant gain: Her mother died last year, so this will be her first Mother’s Day without her mom. And it’s her first Mother’s Day with Shayna, whom she adopted with her husband, noted restaurateur and food consultant Michael Whiteman, last year.
“This will be an extraordinary Mother’s Day for us,” Rozanne says. “Through a family friend we learned this beautiful 11-year-old girl was in need of a new home, a new family. I feel as if my mother sent her to me.”
Aside from finding an immediate place in Rozanne’s and Michael’s hearts, Shayna wasted no time carving out her niche in the family kitchen as well.
“Shayna has a great love for cooking and is already a talented and inventive chef. She’s a natural and is spending as much time in the kitchen as possible,” says Rozanne, herself a three-time winner of the James Beard Award and author of nearly a dozen cookbooks.
So what’s next for the formidable foodie family?
“We’re working on a cookbook for teens, with healthy, farmers’ market-driven recipes,” Rozanne says. The book will be published by Bloomsbury Publishing in late 2008 or early 2009.
Here are some simple recipes the Gold-en Girls developed for their first Mother’s Day celebration together.
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