Kancigor: Choosing the unexpected when sharing a favorite recipe with friends

I met Tony Cipriano at Mitzvah Meals where we both volunteer to cook for the homeless.
I was struggling with a knife that was too large to core the apples I was working on. Tony reached in his pocket and said, “Here. Try this,” and handed me a melon baller, and my immediate thought was: Wow! A man who cooks. More fodder for my column.
Cipriano, a college biology teacher who lives in Buena Park, grew up in New York, the son of a Sicilian father and a Yemenite Jewish mother.
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