Julia della Croce

Julia della Croce is a journalist, author, and teacher. She is regarded as a leading authority on Italian cooking and "one of the county's top-flight cookbook writers" {New York Newsday, 1995}. As a restaurant critic, book reviewer, syndicated columnist and correspondent, she has written over 150 articles for newspapers and magazines since 1976.

Julia della Croce's titles include PASTA CLASSICA: The Art of Italian Pasta Cooking; THE PASTA BOOK: Recipes in the Italian Tradition; Antipasti; The Little Dishes of Italy; The Vegetarian Table: Italy; Salse di Pomodoro: Making Italy's Great Tomato Sauces; The Classic Italian Cookbook and Ultimate Pasta. The author's eight and ninth books, presently in production, are the first two in a series of twenty on Italian regional cooking. Volumes on Umbria, Venice and the Veneto, will be released simultaneously in 2001 to launch the series.

Julia has made many TV appearances including Regis and Kathie Lee, CBS, The Today Show, the P.B.S. series Epicurious, and the TV Food Network's serial Chef du Jour.

The recognition she has received includes an award in 1992 from the James Beard Foundation distinguishing her as one of "America's Best Cooking Teachers." In 1993, she was honored for her contribution to Italian culinary literature at the Italian Embassy in Washington D.C. Julia has lectured about the history of Italian cooking and culture for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies in Philadelphia, N.A.S.F.T. in New York and San Diego, The New York Culinary Historians, and the American Institute of Wine and Food.

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