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Letizia Mattiacci is the owner of Alla Madonna del Piatto Cooking school near Assisi in Italy. For almost 20 years Letizia has been teaching about home food, rural traditions, food quality and sustainability. She has shared her knowledge and enthusiasm about all aspects of Italy’s rural culture, food and ways of life with visitors from all over the world. Her cooking classes and her first cookbook entitled “A Kitchen with a View” have deserved press mentions on the Seattle Times, The New York Times, National Geographic, Food and Wine magazine and she  has also appeared on BBC television in her role of local gastronome.

Her second cookbook named “Festa Italiana” is a follow up of “A Kitchen with a view” and consists of 260 pages of beautiful photos, detailed guides to making bread, pasta and polenta, recipes spanning from simple everyday feasts to great recipes for special occasions as well as history, myths and legends about the Italian holidays and festivals throughout the year.

Get ready to cook your own Italian feast with Festa Italiana!

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