Giuliano Bugialli

Giuliano Bugialli was an Italian food writer and historian who researched old recipes and published several cookbooks on Italian cooking.

Biography

He studied business at the Università degli Studi di Firenze and languages at a university in Rome, where he became a teacher in Italian for college students from the USA.
He created a cooking school in his home town Florence in 1972, before moving to the US to teach Italian language at Dalton School in New York City. He also established cooking schools on Manhattan and appeared on television shows. In his home country he had a series of weekly cooking shows on RAI and in the US he hosted the 26 episode Bugialli's Italy on PBS.
He was born in Florence in 1931, son of a winemaker and a typist. His companion was US composer Henry Weinberg. He died in Viareggio on July 6, 2019.

Source:

The fine art of Italian cooking, Times books, 1977
Classic Techniques of Italian Cooking, 1982
Foods of Italy, with John Dominis, 1984
Bugialli on Pasta, 1988
Bugialli's Foods of Tuscany, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1992
Bugialli's Italy: Traditional Recipes From The Regions Of Italy, 1994
Best of Bugialli, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1994
Foods of Sicily and Sardinia and the Smaller Islands, with John Dominis, Rizzoli, 1996
Guiliano Bugialli's Food of Naples and Campania, 2003
Parma. A Capital of Italian Gastronomy, 2005