Pino Luongo, celebrity restaurateur and author of A Tuscan in the Kitchen , indulges his culinary passion for the small fish of his native Italy with appealing recipes and delightful conversational prose. Pino offers more than 70 regional Italian dishes from the menus of three of his best-known restaurants--le Madri, Coco Pazzo, and Sapore di mare. 50 line drawings.
Giuseppe "Pino" Luongo is an American-based Italian restaurateur, businessman, and memoirist. He owned or co-owned current and former restaurants including Il Cantinori, Le Madri, Centolire, Coco Pazzo (New York and Chicago), Coco Pazzo Cafe (Chicago), Coco Pazzo Teatro, Tuscan Square, Morso (New York) and the Wainscott, New York-based Sapore di Mare.