Celebrity Chef/Award Winning Author Maria Liberati, author of the Gourmand World award winning book series The Basic Art of Italian Cooking will be doing cooking demo on the Celebrity Chef stage and book signing and sampling as a special guest at the TASTE! Philly food and wine event. Maria will be sampling recipes from her book series and her catering company all weekend

Maria is an award winning author of 10 books about culinary travel, creator of the award winning blog The Basic Art of Italian Cooking by Maria Liberati tm, with 300,000 worldwide subscribers at http://www.marialiberati.com

She has hosted a PBS TV Series, appears frequently in TV and media, is considered one of the foremost experts on Italian culinary arts and culinary heritage. She is the creator of the trademark based on the Gourmand World Award Winning book series, blog The Basic Art of Italian Cooking by Maria Liberati tm. Maria created her book series and blog at her family's vineyard in the mountains of Italy.. Her latest ventures are a catering company that caters and plans events and her upcoming book release that will be a collaboration with the world famous culinary school in Italy Chef Academy. For more info on Maria Liberati email: events@marialiberati.com