Maria Liberati

Former international supermodel turned Celebrity Chef Maria Liberati is the author of the bestselling book series The Basic Art of Italian Cooking. She has been called 'the Italian Martha Stewart ' by Celebrity Society Magazine (6/06 issue).

Maria has been featured in national and international publications and is director of The Basic Art of Italian Cooking by Maria Liberati™ Cooking School in Umbria/Tuscany, Italy and soon to be in Sicily.

Maria is considered one of the foremost authorities on Italian cuisine and culture in the USA . Her blog is read by over 100,000+ subscribers worldwide and is found at www.marialiberati.com/blog2

The Basic Art of Italian Cooking-Holidays & Special Occasions will be released in Spetember 2009, but a pre-publication edition will be specially available at the show.