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Short bio
Andrea Pizzo
Andrea Pizzo was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, in an Italian American family where the kitchen was the heart of the home. Her great-grandparents and grandparents came from Sicily and Naples, and they brought their recipes, their traditions and their faith with them.
She grew up on Sunday mornings that smelled like sauce, Saturday trips to the pork store with her father, and a table that never had just one dish on it. She is a registered nurse. Her first cookbook, I'm Italian! I'm Punching Myself in the Face, collects 50 of those recipes with the photographs and the stories that go with them, and she is at work on a second book of Italian Christmas cookies.
Long bio, high-resolution photographs and cover art on request: andreascannolilove@gmail.com
Story angles
How she works with people
The recipes almost went with her grandmother
Nothing was written down. Everything was "come over and watch." A whole family cuisine survived on memory until she sat down and recorded it.
A Brooklyn Italian childhood, plainly told
The pork store on Saturday, the salumeria, bakery trays carried into family dinners, and a Sunday that started with sauce before church.
Cooking as a way of keeping people
Great-grandma Clara, grandpa Domiano, her mother Josephine. Each recipe is attached to a person, which is why she can still remember them.
She is not a chef
No restaurant, no training, no television. A home cook with four generations behind her, which is exactly why the recipes work in a home kitchen.
Partnerships
How she works with brands
She is selective on purpose. An audience that trusts a home cook stops trusting her the first time she sells something she does not use.
- What she will do
- Products she already cooks with. Recipe development, demos, and honest on-camera use.
- What she will not do
- Anything she has not cooked with. Diet claims. Products she would not put on her own table.
- Disclosure
- Every paid placement is labelled, on the site and on social.
- Approval
- She reviews any copy or footage that carries her name before it runs.
Quick facts
- 50 recipes in the book
- 1,721 words of family history in the front matter
- Four generations, Sicily and Naples to Brooklyn