Award winning Celebrity Chef Maria Liberati follows Leonardo Davinci's travels in Italy from the eyes of a foodie and visits his culinary past, his travels and recipes influenced by the regions he visited and DaVinci's love of simplicity. Leonardo DaVinci;s affinity for beauty and simplicity helped to create the healthy Mediterranean Diet as we know it today and the 100 recipes included are typical to each region he lived in, visited or worked in. 200+ pgs, 100 recipes, recipes are easy to follow and authentic Italian following the Slow Food way of cooking.The book is part of the ongoing Gourmand World Cookbook Award Winning Book series The Basic Art of Italian Cooking from Celebrity Chef Maria Liberati. Join The Basic Art of Italian Cooking by Maria Liberati tm BLOG with over 100,000 worldwide subscribers at
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. "