The Farmer’s Daughter’s Guide to Nutritious and Delicious Eating

The idea to write a book came to me after an evening of preparing a meal for some friends. I enjoy cooking for others and find that most of the time everyone wants Italian food. Halfway through dinner, I was already getting requests for another sumptuous event. A thought came to me to try to recreate the meal and write down the recipe. We do not usually cook with recipes in my family, so that was a novel idea. After that, when cooking, if a dish was exceptionally tasty and looked pretty, I would try to recreate it. I paid special attention in preparing delicious as well as nutritious foods, in not only Italian dishes but also my individual tastes, and I had to share them. Learning at a young age about how food was grown, harvested, and prepared, combined with my degree in holistic nutrition, I realized the amount of information in my head was overpowering. So I decided to write a book. I hope you also enjoy my tribute to my family and my very fortunate life, including the Martino family photos. Consider this my contribution to your journey for good, healthy, and fun eating!