Julia della Croce, writer, award-winning author, journalist, and teacher provides consulting services to corporations, restaurants, private and public-sector organizations and educational institutions on a day-rate or contract basis. She is an experienced media spokesperson, promoter, educator and public speaker. Areas of expertise include:
ITALIAN COOKING
* noted international authority on authentic Italian cooking
* recipe development and testing
ITALIAN PRODUCTS
* expert on Italian food products
* special expertise in pasta products
MEDIA PROMOTION AND ADVERTISING
* extensive radio experience
* spokesperson for television and print media
* expertise in producting food and travel photography
* advertising and editorial mediums
* experienced television chef
SELECTED CLIENTS, PAST and PRESENT
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Julia della Croce has been a consultant and radio and television spokesperson for various Italian companies. La Molisana (award-winning quality Italian pasta)
- created recipes for packaging on sixty pasta varieties for the American market
- promoted La Molisana pasta through television appearances, radio and print media interviews.
* Ruffino wines
- wrote educational brochures about Tuscan foods and lifestyle
- created marketing materials and sales tools for the company's line of Tuscan wine varieties.
* Bertolli olive oil
- traveled for appearances at trade show and publicity events for Bertolli extra-virgin olive oil
- created recipes for company brochures supervised advertising agency photo shoots for ads that have been placed in top-flight national magazines. Her image and recipes have been prominently featured in Bertolli advertisements that have run in Gourmet and other prominent food magazines.
* Parmigiano Reggiano cheese for the Conzorzio di Parmigiano-Reggiano
- national television tour
* Chianti Classico wines for the Conzorzio Chianti Classico
- satellite media tour aired throughout the United States.
* Restaurant Critic
- judged food competitions
- advised top-flight Italian restaurants for recipe development, menu planning, marketing, and promotion.
* Oldways Preservation Trust
- oversaw menus for a press trip with 200 prominent international journalists and food experts to Apulia
-collaborated on a number of projects about traditional foods, the Mediterranean diet, and teaching consumers about healthy eating
* Teacher and Lecturer on the history of Italian cooking and culture
- lectures about Italian culinary history and culture at institutions institutions such as 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 in New York and Cambridge.
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