from Roman Kitchen & Il Melograno, Italy

Diane Seed, author of the best-selling "The Top One Hundred Pasta Sauces" and many other books on Italian cooking, has lived in Rome for over 28 years. She has a cooking school in her own home in the beautiful Doria Pamphili palace in the center of Rome at Piazza Venezia. Her apartment is in the part of the palace used to house guests on the Grand Tour in the early part of the last century, and the cooking school has a round window that looks over Piazza Venezia, down to the Forum and the Colosseum. The back terrace looks over the tiled roof to see the dome of St.Peter's. 

She is also known to those who have been fortunate enough to attend her cooking classes in her home in Rome and Puglia at Il Melograno, as a teacher who weaves a spell with much wit and humor. At the same time as she shows you how to cook authentic Italian, her fascinating commentary gives you an insider's view of Italian life, interwoven with snippets of Italian history as it interlocks with the story of each dish.