Patrizia Chen

Photograph by Elisabetta Catalano

About The Author

  Born in Livorno, Italy, Patrizia Chen is a former professional model who has lived in Egypt, Japan, Todi and Argentina. A superb Italian home cook, Chen is renowned for her gourmet dinner parties; her first book, Rosemary and Bitter Oranges, told the story of how she learned to cook as a child in Tuscany.  She is an avid tango dancer who brings her natural energy and charisma to everything she does--including contributing to numerous Italian publications and founding TangoInk--an online tango magazine. Chen lives with her husband in New York City and has two grown children.

Books by Patrizia Chen

It Takes Two

A Novel

By Patrizia Chen
Francesca Rivabuona is fifty and exhausted by the monotony of her life.
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Rosemary and Bitter Oranges

Growing Up in a Tuscan Kitchen

By Patrizia Chen
Patrizia Chen's childhood was suffused with the scent of simmering pots of cacciucco -- a local, hearty seafood stew -- and of the pittosporum blooming along the Tuscan coast. Her family's house and sumptuous garden in the Italian seaside town of Livorno are at the center of this captivati...
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