During the 1940’s when Ernie Cook, a G.I. home on leave, served as Best Man in the wedding party of his best friend and caught the eye of young Irene Haydu. They formally met at a picnic seven years later and were married. The Cook girls’ earliest memories were of Grandma Sophie and Poppa Ernie filling their kitchen and senses with the sights, sounds, tastes, and smells of Hungarian cuisine. At a very early age the importance of good food in their many family celebrations was apparent. Throughout the 1950’s, 60’s, and 70’s the Cook household was alive with three generations of Hungarians, elbow to elbow, at the kitchen stove. In the late 1970’s when Kathy Cook attended her best friend’s wedding and first crossed paths with her future husband David, who was also in the wedding party, she refused his invitation to dance. Seven years later they were properly introduced at a dinner party thrown by the wedding couple and later married. Kathy’s move to Midwest in 1990 was planned because of a position David held at the time of their wedding.