Amy Riolo

Amy Riolo is an award-winning author, chef, cooking show host, cooking instructor, and Mediterranean expert. She makes frequent appearances on television and radio programs both in the United States and abroad, including Fox TV, CBS, The Travel Channel, Martha Stewart Living Radio, and Abu Dhabi Television. Her work has also appeared in numerous print media, including USA Today, Cooking Light magazine, The Washington Post, CNN.com, The Wall Street Journal, Gulf News, Popular Anthropology Magazine, and international newspapers and hundreds of blogs. She is also the author of the Italian Diabetes Cookbook, published by the American Diabetes Association. She currently teaches approximately 80 hands-on cooking classes per year, with more than 3,500 students annually at Living Social, Sur la Table, and Open Kitchen in Washington, D.C. Internationally, she gives classes in Italy, Egypt, and UAE.