Judy and Marvin Zeidler were the first serious restauranteurs I ever knew. Judy began writing columns for the paper on kosher cooking, and one day she invited me to her house to taste some Purim food. I think I expected the co-owners of a high-end Italian restaurant (Capo), a major (and now closed) landmark Santa Monica restaurant (The Broadway Deli) and several other places to be intense, serious, all about the business of food. But I felt immediately like I’d wandered into my aunt’s kitchen. They are unpretentious people who have created an extended family of food lovers, growers, producers and eaters, all galvanized by their generosity and passion.