Marlena de Blasi

Marlena De Blasi is the bestselling author of A Thousand Days in Venice, A Thousand Days in Tuscany, Tuscan Secrets, An Umbrian Love Story, The Lady in the Palazzo, That Summer in Sicily and a novel Amandine. She has been a chef, a journalist, a food and wine consultant and a restaurant critic. She is also the author of two internationally published cookbooks of Italian food: Regional Foods of Northern Italy and A Taste of Southern Italy. She resides in Italy. (Bowker Author Biography)

— biography from A Thousand Days in Venice

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