{"id":10605,"date":"2016-04-28T21:50:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T21:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viamedic.com\/health-articles\/\/?p=202"},"modified":"2011-04-28T21:50:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T21:50:49","slug":"maria-liberati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/expert-interviews-and-podcasts\/maria-liberati\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Food with Maria Liberati"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFormer International Supermodel turned Celebrity Chef, Maria Liberati<\/strong> joins the show.<\/em><\/p>\n

As a former international supermodel, Maria Liberati never dreamed that she would go from being a fashion diva to a domestic diva. Ironically, while jet setting off to modeling assignments around the world, Maria became closer to the simplicity of life and food in the country setting of her family\u2019s vineyard<\/strong> in the mountains of central Italy. She began to experience the real tastes of food that she knew from her childhood.<\/p>\n

An Award Winning\u00a0 cookbook author and Celebrity Chef -her passion with food began at the early age of 4, when she would accompany \u2018nonno\u2019 (grandfather) on his early morning Saturday trips to the Italian Market in Philadelphia<\/strong> to pick out all the fresh ingredients for the Sunday family meal.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Years later, Maria was spotted by international artist Sergio <\/strong>Terzi (known<\/strong> as Nerone)<\/strong> and was asked to sit for a portrait at his studio in the Emilio-Romagna region of Italy. While sitting for this portrait, the months lingered on and Maria found herself spending more and more time at Nerone\u2019s family farm nearby. During her time there, she studied the art of making the famed Parmigiana-Reggiano cheese<\/strong>. When the painting was finished, it was exhibited all throughout the world including the Metropolitan Museum of Art\"\" where the painting and the artist were honored at a special ceremony for the contributions of Italians to the World.<\/p>\n

Today,\u00a0Maria is considered one of the foremost experts on Italian Cuisine and culture,has been called the Italian\u00a0\u2019Martha Stewart\u2019 (Celebrity\u00a0Society magazine 06\/06) and is a frequent guest on radio, TV and national media features. She\u00a0is frequently called upon to be\u00a0 spokesperson for many\u00a0food and kitchen related companies to bring across their message of\u00a0artisan, fresh local\u00a0products to her audience.\u00a0She also serves as food\u00a0\u00a0consultant for new products.\u00a0Maria\u00a0is frequently found \u00a0cooking center stage at many consumer and trade show events\u00a0 as guest Celebrity Chef and designs corporate teambuiliding programs for Fortune 500 companies.\u00a0As a professional speaker,\u00a0Maria\u00a0is asked to speak\u00a0at many\u00a0 events on her success.\u00a0The rest, as they say, is history. She divides her time between her office and residence in the USA and Italy where she writes her books and hosts specialty culianryadn wine programs at some of Italy\u2019s most magnificent castles and vineyards.<\/p>\n

Maria\u2019s\u00a0 philosophy\u00a0 is to create recipes that simply transform the freshest ingredients without changing their essential flavors\u2026\u201dthat is an art \u00a0and\u00a0cooking\u00a0is an art..a basic art\u201d.\u00a0For more tips on cooking, foods, style and decorating, visit\u00a0 Maria\u2019s blog<\/a> where food meets art, travel and life!<\/p>\n

Maria Liberati <\/strong>discusses & answers the following:<\/p>\n