Maureen B. Fant

Quick Links

Elizabeth Bartman, archaeologist, and I have launched a tour company dedicated to the kind of travel we like to do ourselves: visits to ancient remains punctuated by great meals and other food adventures.

Flavor of Italy

My pal Wendy Holloway's site all about Italy—food and so much more. And listen to her podcast!

Gastropod

Wonderful, intelligent science- and history-based food podcast.

Stethoscope on Rome

Dr. Susan Levenstein’s take on Italian health and medical care.

Jacques Fontaine

Gentleman coiffeur in Rome. The second most important man in my life.

Collages by Linda Sicher

Amazing art by my Nightingale classmate.

Elegant Etruria

Mary Jane Cryan is the source for northern Lazio (and more).

Three Frog Studios (handmade wood utensils, etc.)

Love the squid forks. Clayton Fant moonlights as artisan, and he's good.

Commendable Rentals

Very special villa and apartments rentals and boutique hotels in France, Italy, the US, and a growing list of destinations, amazing trips to southern Africa, and much more.

Jeremy Cherfas, biologist in Rome

Really interesting food-related blog

The Food Section

Great food blog

Vino Roma

Super wine experiences in Rome, in English.

"Gourmet Live" online magazine

Download free audiobooks.

Jacqueline Friedrich, wine and Loire expert

Marlene McLoughlin, Rome-based artist

If only the world were as beautiful as her watercolors.

Vladimir Radunsky

Great children's book author/illustrator who lives in my 'hood in Rome.

Saltworks

Sorts out the salts.

Reader's Circle

Nonprofit book club networking.

Arcimboldo

A site dedicated to the foodie's favorite Italian painter

Katie Parla's wide-ranging Rome-based blog

Selin Rozanes. Cooking in Istanbul.

Italian Notebook, daily e-mails about Italy

Bonnie's Jams. Yum.

Engin Akin. Turkish food expert.

Divina Cucina, cooking school, Florence

Iris Carulli, Rome tours

Mestiere di Scrivere, super Italian site about writing and editing

Delicious Italy, with lots of food info and links

Slow Travel, excellent travel board with emphasis on Italy

Chocolatier David Lebovitz's great Paris-based food blog.

Italian Trade Commission's Eng-lang food site.

Idyllic Italy, Internet Guide to Italy

NY Times travel section, Italy

Jim Zurer's Italian trip planning

All Culinary Schools, online guide.

Kitchen Arts & Letters

Diotima: Women & Gender in the Ancient World

Wanted in Rome

As the Romans Do

Nightingale-Bamford School

International Association of Culinary Professionals

John Massengale, architect

Johns Hopkins University Press

Faith Willinger

Caroline Workman, Irish food

Authors Guild

Selected Works

Food

Sauces & Shapes: Pasta the Italian Way

Pasta is so universally popular in the United States that it can justifiably be called an American food. This book makes the case for keeping it Italian with recipes for sauces and soups as cooked in Italian homes today. There are authentic versions of such favorites as carbonara, bolognese, marinara, and Alfredo, as well as plenty of unusual but no less traditional sauces, based on roasts, ribs, rabbit, clams, eggplant, arugula, and mushrooms, to name but a few.

Williams-Sonoma Rome

Food culture and recipes with fabulous photos

Trattorias of Rome, Florence, and Venice

A personal guide to traditional eating and drinking in three cities

Dictionary of Italian Cuisine

A to Z Italian-English lexicon of food terminology

The Classical World

Women's Life in Greece and Rome

A source book on ancient women

Translations

Popes, Peasants, and Shepherds: Recipes and Lore from Rome and Lazio

By Oretta Zanini De Vita

Encyclopedia of Pasta

By Oretta Zanini De Vita

Contact

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