Jazz playing softly in the background, the creak of an oven door, the whir of an immersion blender, the hum of laughter and conversation. These are the welcoming sounds at a cooking class on a recent chilly night at Farfalle, an Italian gourmet shop and cafe owned by wife and husband Gina Nasson and Jeff Nedeau.

Farfalle may not be the place where everyone knows your name, but it's close. Nasson, who is teaching tonight, knows about 95 percent of her customers, and several of the six students are class veterans. One of them, Mary Fenoglio of Concord, says Nasson has taught her a lot of valuable "little tricks.

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