Katie Parla is a Rome-based food and beverage writer and educator. She is the author of the Saveur-award winning site KatieParla.com and co-author of the IACP award-winning cookbook Tasting Rome: Fresh Flavors an Forgotten Recipes from an Ancient City. Her forthcoming cookbook, Food of the Italian South: Recipes for Classic, Disappearing, and Lost Dishes will be published by Clarkson Potter in 2019.