About Michele
Michele Scicolone
For a long time friends would ask me, when is your next trip to Italy? Now they know better and simply say, are you just arriving or just leaving? Ever since our honeymoon almost 40 years ago, my husband, wine expert Charles Scicolone and I have travelled to Italy several times a year, either to visit winemakers, research my books and articles, with groups on culinary tours, or simply to explore and enjoy.
“As long as there is Italy, why go anywhere else?”
Michele Scicolone A Fresh Taste of Italy
Cookbooks in Print
The Italian Slow Cooker published January 2010
The Bistro Laurent Tourondel Cookbook (with Laurent Tourondel)
1,000 Italian Recipes
The Sopranos Family Cookbook (with Allen Rucker)
Entertaining with the Sopranos (with Allen Rucker)
Essentials of Italian Cooking
Mastering Pasta and Noodles
Savoring Italy
Italian Holiday Cooking
Pizza Anyway You Slice It! (with Charles Scicolone)
Italian Holiday Cooking
A Fresh Taste of Italy
La Dolce Vita
The Antipasto Table
Culinary Tours
Michele hosts private and small group culinary tours and cruises for Tour de Forks, Cantalupo Tours, and Travel Dynamics International.
Articles Published in Magazines and Newspapers
Prevention, Cooking Pleasures, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, The Wine Spectator, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Food & Wine, Family Fun, Redbook, Food Arts, and many others.
Cooking School Classes
Michele teaches cooking, wine tasting (with her husband Charles Scicolone) and food styling classes at schools around the country and for private groups. The New School Culinary Center, The Institute for Culinary Education (ICE), De Gustibus at Macy’s, Cooking by the Book, Sur La Table, Draeger’s, Ramekins, The James Beard Foundation, Kings Cooking Studios, Adventures in Cooking and others.
Upon request, Michele is available for private and semi-private cooking classes.
Lectures, Spokesperson, Television Appearances and Corporate Events
Michele has lectured and appeared on panels at The Smithsonian Institute, Hofstra University, The Brooklyn Public Library, New York City Technical College, 92nd Street Y, The Greenbriar Writers Conference, and Henderson State University.
Michele has been a spokesperson for the Italian Trade Commission and the Williams Sonoma Mastering Cookbook Series.
Television appearances include Cooking Live with Sara Moulton, Good Morning America, The CBS Morning Show, The Main Ingredient with Bobby Flay, Ciao, Italia with Mary Ann Esposito, Emeril Live, Real Simple and many others.
Restaurant Consultant
Michele has been a menu consultant for restaurants in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Phoenix, Arizona.
Recipe Development
Amore Brands, The Italian Confectionary Institute, and Welch’s are some of the corporations for whom Michele has developed recipes for public relations and advertising purposes.
Michele currently writes an on-line newsletter for Amore Brands. To see it, click on Amore Newsletter.
