Six years ago, Mary Bryant Shrader ’80 stood in her Texas kitchen and filmed a video of herself explaining how to roast a chicken. That cooking tutorial would soon transform Bryant Shrader, then sixty ...

“So, here’s what you do with thyme. . . . ” A soothing voice instructs from my mom’s laptop. On-screen, “Barefoot Contessa” host Ina Garten stands with a fresh sprig poised between her thumb and index ...