79 THE BASIC ART OF ITALIAN COOKING - MARIA LIBERATI

S2020E79
29:15
August 9th 2020

Maria Liberati is an Italian American Chef/Entrepreneur and winner of the prestigious Gourmand World Cookbook Award for her culinary travel book series - The Basic Art of Italian Cooking. Her award-winning blog The Basic Art of Italian Cooking by Maria Liberati tm at www.marialiberati.com was selected as culinary travel blog of the year by the NY Travel Writers' Society ,and has 300,000 worldwide followers. Maria is considered one of the foremost experts on Italian cuisine and wine. She regularly appears on TV, radio and in print and hosted/wrote her own PBS TV series based on her culinary travel book series. Maria studied the culinary arts in Italy, and founded The Basic Art of Italian Cooking by Maria Liberati tm trademark now with its' own line of food products in the works.

CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte

Monday 11:30 am + Wed 5:30 pm

“Curmudgeonly Yours” is a show on ‘comparative modern Western life. The title comes from Richard Bonte’s humorous book of the same name, “Curmudgeonly Yours.” In his sometimes-multilingual show, host and author Richard Bonte interviews guests from different countries to get their take on ideas and problems facing the Western world.

Host Richard Bonte is a Bradenton resident and a native-born New Yorker. He has lived much of his life in Canada, California and Western Europe. He has worn many hats in his life including playwright, bi-coastal actor, teacher, writer, linguist and phonetician. He has advanced degrees from Berkeley, UCLA and the Sorbonne. Richard has written ten novels (including ‘Curmudgeonly Yours’ (2017), been given the FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) 2018 Silver Award for Humor), several plays and screenplays. He is right now co-writing a new novel set in 1930’s Los Angeles.