Rossella Rago

Rossella Rago is the host of the popular web TV seriesCooking with Nonna(www.cookingwithnonna.com). For each episode of the show, Rossella invites an Italian-Americannonnato cook with her and share traditional Italian recipes and fond memories of her childhood in Italy. Rossella, a graduate of St. John's University, has traveled the country and performed cooking demonstrations in numerous cities across the United States with localnonneas her partners. Rossella spent her childhood in the kitchen with her maternal Nonna Romana, learning the long legacy of recipes from Puglia passed down through the generations. LaunchingCooking with NonnaTV has allowed Rossella to expand her culinary expertise to much of the rest of Italy too. Rossella, together with her mother and her Nonna Romana, won the "Italiano Battle" episode of the Food Network's24 Hour Restaurant Battlein 2010. She is the author ofCooking with Nonnaand Cooking with Nonna: A Year of Italian Holidays (Race Point Publishing, 2017 and 2018). Rossellalives in Brooklyn, New York.