www.cookstr.com - A premiere website for recipes from best-selling cookbooks. Many recipes from my cookbooks appear on the site.

www.leitesculinaria.com - An excellent blog of food news and recipes. My newest cookbook, Italian Home Cooking: 125 Recipes to Comfort Your Soul, is reviewed there.

SHOP: FOOD

www.dipaloselects.com - News and recommendations about genuine Italian products from Lou DiPalo, proprietor of DiPalo Fine Foods, a fifth-generation Italian foods specialty shop in New York City that has no equal anywhere in the U.S.

www.gustiamo.com – Wholesale and retail internet sales of some of the finest Italian food specialty products available in the U.S. Gustiamo’s Beatrice Ughi travels to Italy herself to source products.

SHOP: BOOKS

www.alibris.com - Good internet site for used cookbooks.

www.amazon.com - One of the most comprehensive websites for new and used cookbooks on the internet.

www.barnesandnoble.com - Another of the internet’s best sites for new and used cookbooks.

www.booksforcooks.com - London’s famous cookbook book store in Notting Hill, where I have taught when I have visited London when on tour for my British editions.

www.indiebound.org - This website offers new and used books from a collaboration of independent booksellers.

www.jessicasbiscuit.com - Jessica’s Biscuit is the best single on-line source specializing in cook books.

www.kitchenartsandletters.com - This is the largest independent cookbook store in the U.S., probably in the world, carrying over 13,000 titles of new and out-of-print cookbooks.  A serious resource for chefs, caterers, home cooks, scholars, food writers, and anyone else with an interest in food.

SHOP: SUPPLIES

www.bridgekitchenware.com - One of the oldest and finest sources for professional cookware in the country.

www.surlatable.com - One of the best retail cookware equipment sources for the general public.

www.williams-sonoma.com - Sells high quality cooking equipment and selected cookbooks, including  those they publish. They carry two cookbooks I have written for them.

STAYS in ITALY

www.solomeo.it - Beautifully restored  country house c. 1920 atop a tiny, charming hill town near Perugia, Umbria. Serves Umbrian food, offers cooking classes, tours.

www.aWeekinUmbria.com - Newly restored 17^th century palazzo on the town square of medieval Bettona, Umbria. Offers “slow travel,” cooking classes, personalized tours, and custom travel planning for discriminating travelers.

www.butera28.it - Apartment rentals on the sea in the heart of the historical district of Palermo, Sicily, run by proprietor Nicoletta Polo, who also runs the nearby Cooking with the Duchess Cooking School.

FOOD and GARDEN NEWS

www.itchefs-gvci.com - News from the trade organization for professional Italian chefs cooking around the world; authentic mother recipes in each webzine issue.

www.italianmade.com - Useful recipes, news and information about Italian food products, wine, and regional cuisines from the official Italian government agency for the promotion of Italian food and wine.

COOKING SCHOOLS and ACCOMODATIONS in ITALY

www.cookingwiththeduchess.com - Cooking school in the historic district of Palermo, Sicily, run by Nicoletta Polo, Ducchess of Palma, a direct descendant of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, author of The Leopard.

www.unisg.it - Study Italian gastronomy and artisanal food crafts in Bra (Lombardy), Italy, home of Slow Food International

FRIENDS

Joan Gussow - author, food producer, educator, and founder of the American sustainability movement.

www.imageleap.com - Website design by Flavia Destefanis

www.thecanalhouse.com - Food photography by Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton

Portrait photograph by Christopher Hirsheimer

Documentary photography by Nathan Hoyt

www.paolodestefanis.com - Location photography by Paolo Destefanis,

www.dipaloselects.com - Italian specialty ingredients from DiPalo Fine Foods