Mary Taylor Simeti was born in 1941 in New York City. She is the daughter of Francis Henry Taylor, then director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1962 she graduated from Radcliffe College with a major in history. She travelled to Sicily to work with social activist Danilo Dolci. In Sicily she met her future husband, Antonio Simeti, professor of agricultural economics at the University of Palermo. Together they restored the Simetis' farm near Alcamo where they produce organic olive oil and wine.[2]
Booksedit
“On Persephone’s Island. A Sicilian Journal“, Alfred Knopf, 1986, ISBN978-0670809202.
“Pomp and Sustenance: Twenty-Five Centuries of Sicilian Food“, Alfred Knopf, 1989, ISBN978-0394568508. British edition: “Sicilian Food: Recipes from Italy's Abundant Isle“, Grub Street Cookery, 2009, ISBN978-1902304175.
“Bitter Almonds: Recollections and Recipes of a Sicilian Girlhood”, written with Maria Grammatico. Morrow, 1994, ISBN978-0688124496. Italian version: “Mandorle amare”, Flaccovio Editore, 2004, ISBN88-7804-253-6.
“Travels With a Medieval Queen. The Journey of a Sicilian Princess to Reclaim Her Father's Crown“, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2001, ISBN978-0374278786.
“Fumo e arrosto: Escursioni nel paesaggio letterario e gastronomico della Sicilia”, Flaccovio Editore 2008
“Sicilian Summer: An Adventure in Cooking with My Grandsons“, Silverwood Books, 2017, ISBN978-1781326879.
Referencesedit
^Cornelisen, Ann (20 April 1986). "WITH THE GODDESS IN HER SEASONS". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
^"La scrittrice di New York siciliana da quarant' anni - la Repubblica.it". Archivio - la Repubblica.it (in Italian). Retrieved 8 November 2018. (in Italian)
External linksedit
Official website
Website of the Simeti-Taylor Organic Farm in Sicily
BBC Food Programme."My Food Hero: Dan Saladino meets Mary Taylor Simeti"
January 01, 1970
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