Italian Food as a Muse with Andrew Cotto
An Evening with Andrew Cotto: Italian Food as a Muse. Thursday, January 25, 2024. 6:00PM Reception | 6:30PM Talk. Columbuis Citizens Foundation - 8 East 69th Street, New York, NY 10021 | $35. RSVP here. Andrew's love of Italian cuisine ignited his prolific writing career, inspiring seven novels, more than 500 articles, and regular contributions to...
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Inspired by Italian Food: A Writer’s Muse
Inside my seven novels, along with the familiar narrative essentials, there is a feast of Italian food. This happened organically as I love Italian food, and this passion extended to feeding my fictional characters. Said passion is surely rooted in my Italian-American background. I grew up eating Italian food pretty much every day and twice on Sund...
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Cotto's Italian adventures
Even before the humanist movement of the Italian Renaissance, Italy has espoused a spirituality that is very much informed by the senses. One need only visit Italy to glean that Italian culture is consumed with beauty. A few of these lessons are expertly brought to life in Andrew Cotto’s two novels, Cucina Tipica: An Italian Adventure and Cucina Ro...
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