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Rosetta Costantino was born and raised in Verbicaro, a small wine-producing hill town in Calabria, at the southern tip of the Italian peninsula. Influenced by her parents, her father a master cheesemaker and winemaker, who tended her family’s olive groves, vineyards and farm, and her mother who knew how to live from the land, how to grow vegetables and preserve them for the winter months, and how to make bread and friselle from scratch. After 20 years of working in Silicon Valley, Rosetta retired and became a stay-at-home mom, honing the kitchen skills that she learned from her mother and grandmothers. Then, in 2004 an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, “Calabria from Scratch”, was written by celebrated food writer Janet Fletcher. It detailed how Rosetta’s family kept all the traditions of Calabria in a small corner of Oakland, California. Working on this article inspired Rosetta to share the cooking of her native land. She now offers cooking classes on a variety of topics like holiday delicacies, making ricotta, and preserving summer’s bounty, plus classes from other regions in Southern Italy: Sicily, Basilicata, Puglia, and Campania. She has also written several books about the region’s foods and specialties, as well as everything that Calabria has to offer. Her latest book is entitled “Southern Italian Desserts.”