Amy Riolo is a cookbook author, award-winning chef, television personality, and Mediterranean lifestyle ambassador. An Italian American of Calabrian descent, Amy created and appeared weekly in a series of cooking videos entitled Culture of Cuisine, which air on nationally syndicated news shows on 28 different channels across the United States, totaling a reach of over 300 million people.
Among Amy's previous cookbooks are Nile Style; Egyptian Cuisine and Culture, which won the World Gourmand Award for Best Arab Cuisine Book in the United States; Arabian Delights; Recipes & Princely Entertaining Ideas from the Arabian Peninsula, which was chosen as one of the "16 Volumes Worth Staining" by the Washington Post, and, as co-author, The Al Tiramisu Restaurant Cookbook: An Elevated Approach to Authentic Italian Cuisine, which she wrote with award-winning chef/restaurateur Luigi Diotaiuti.
Amy is a Culinary Advisor for The Mediterranean Food Alliance. Her work has appeared in numerous print media including USA Today, Cooking Light magazine, Washington Post, CNN.com, The Wall Street Journal, Gulf News, Popular Anthropology Magazine, The UAE National, and many other international newspapers, blogs, and websites. She has appeared on Fox TV, ABC, CBS, NBC, The Hallmark Channel, Nile TV, The Travel Channel, Martha Stewart Living Radio, Calabria Uno TV, Esperia TV, and Abu Dhabi Television. She has been named a Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy by the President of the Italian Republic. Chef Amy has been baking since she was three years old and has taught baking classes in the United States, Italy, Greece, Morocco, Turkey, and Egypt for home cooks and professionals. She lives in the Washington, DC, area.