Randi Polon (Landriz)

July 17, 1952 - September 30, 2009

Randi Polon Landriz passed away on September 30, 2009 at 57 and lived in Desert Hot Springs CA at the time. In her on-line memorial book, a friend said: 

“Randi had amazing wit and talent. She was kind, generous and always entertaining. I'll miss her blue eyes and stories of Vegas. If you can picture her smile, you can't help but smile yourself."

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With degrees in Italian and Spanish, Randi Landriz, 44, became a professor Romance languages at UCLA.  But, she said, “after many semesters of teaching, it began to dawn on me that though I was teaching language studies, I was really talking about the food.”  Several trips to Italy and Spain turbocharged her passion, and she began to cook more seriously.  So when she decided on a career change, she chose the food route.  After perusing a book about cooking schools, she selected the Epicurean, and in two months at the school, Landriz says her culinary skills have improved dramatically.

-except from an article about Randi