Excerpted from best selling book series The Basic Art of Italian Cooking by Celebrity Chef Maria Liberati. This chpater contains three traditional recipes from Northern Italy and information on Northern Italy
Former international model turned celebrity chef and bestselling author. Maria is the auhor of the best selling book The Basic Art of Italian Cooking -a book of memoirs of life in a small mountain town in Italy and recipes from her life there. The next book in the series -The Basic Art of Italian Cooking- Holidays and Special Occasions will be relesed in mid 2009. Maria completed her culinary training in Italy and combines that with her educational background in nutrition. Maria is also a professional speaker and spokesperson for many large companies. Her speaking presentations are programs on topics that range from:Eating to save the planet! to How to achieve success usign the principles of DaVinci. "