Julia della Croce is a journalist, author and teacher. She is regarded as a leading authority on Italian cooking and "one of the country's top-flight cookbook writers" - New York Newsday, 1995.

As a restaurant critic, book reviewer, syndicated columnist and correspondent her work has appeared in newspapers and magazines including The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New Yotk Times Magazine, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Chicago Tribune, COOK'S, New York Newsday, Food & Wine, COOK'S ILLUSTRATED, TIME (Canada) and Art & Antiques.

Julia della Croce's titles include PASTA CLASSICA: The Art of Italian Pasta Cooking (Chronicle Books, U.S.A., 1987, 1990, 1992, 1996 and John Murray, London, 1989), which was featured on The New York Times Book Review list of the year's best cookbooks; THE PASTA BOOK: Recipes in the Italian Tradition (1991, 1997); Antipasti, The Little Dishes of Italy (1993, 1994); The Vegetarian Table: Italy (1994, 1995) and Salse di Pomodoro Making Italy's Great Tomato Sauces (1995),Umbria: Regional Recipes from the Heartland of Italy (2002), Veneto: Authentic Recipes from Venice and the Italian Northeast (2003), and Roma: Authentic Recipes from in and Around the Eternal City (2004), all published by Chronicle Books. Her books, The Classic Italian Cookbook (1996) and Ultimate Pasta (1997, 1999), published worldwide by Dorling Kindersley and translated into thirteen languages, have received widespread international recognition. Her most recent title is The Modern Cook: Pasta (Williams-Sonoma, 2006).

Julia della Croce has been broadcast extensively on American, Canadian and British radio and has made many appearances on national and regional television, including Regis and Cathie Lee, CBS, The Today Show, and the T.V. Food Network . She has also been featured on Italian and Japanese television.

The recognition she has received includes an award in 1992 by 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. Her fourth book, The Vegetarian Table: Italy, was nominated for a James Beard Award in 1994. In 1999, she won the prestigious Diplome d'Honneur of France for the French language translation of her sixth book, La bonne cuisine italienne (Solar, Paris). In 2003, her book, Veneto, was nominated “Best Italian Cuisine Book” at the World Cookbook Awards in Spain.

Julia della Croce 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, the American Institute of Wine and Food, and other prestigious trade and educational institutions.

In addition to her publishing-related work, Julia della Croce has been a consultant and spokesperson for various Italian companies, including Ruffino wines, Bertolli olivie oil, Consorzio del Chianti Classico and Consorzio del Parmigiano Reggiano. La Molisana (an Italian label that won first-place in Italian pasta competitions), retained her to create recipes for packaging on sixty pasta varieties that the company introduced to the American market. Her private-sector clients include top-flight Italian restaurants based in Manhattan. She is also affiliated with Oldways Preservation and Exchange Trust, the prominent Boston-based food think-tank that promotes healthy, traditional, and sustainable food choices.  She  worked with Oldways on a number of projects about traditional foods, the Mediterranean diet, and teaching consumers about healthy eating.

Prior to being published, Julia della Croce was active in government and business in Britain and in the U.S. Her cooking career began with the launching of  St. Mawr Sailing Cruises, Ltd., a charter boat operation that offered dining cruises aboard a 50-foot ketch on Long Island Sound.

Julia della Croce has lived in Canada, Italy, Scotland and England and has traveled extensively in the United States and abroad. She has a B.A. in Humanities and an M.A. in Political Science from Fordham University. She was awarded a bursary for graduate study in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and has studied at the Edinburgh School of Art, Parsons School of Art and Design and the School of Visual Arts in New York.

She lives in Nyack, New York with her two daughters, Gabriella, 22 and Celina, 18.