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          About Mary Taylor Simeti.

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          Mary Taylor Simeti

          American author

          Mary Taylor Simeti is an American author specializing in Sicilian cuisine and its history.[1] She is a former regular contributor to the New York Times and to the Financial Times.

          Biography

          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.

          Pomp and Sustenance: Twenty-Five Centuries of Sicilian Food (Paperback) ; Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media ; ISBN: ; Number of pages: ; Weight.

          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]

          Books

          • “On Persephone’s Island.

            A Sicilian Journal“, Alfred Knopf, 1986, ISBN 978-0670809202.

          • “Pomp and Sustenance: Twenty-Five Centuries of Sicilian Food“, Alfred Knopf, 1989, ISBN 978-0394568508. British edition: