The Food of Southern Italy

Carlo Middione
Food
Carlo Middione is a second-generation Sicilian-American and formerly the Italian specialist on the faculty of the California Culinary Academy for Chefs in San Francisco. His friendliness, culinary skills, and contagious enthusiasm for good Italian food have won him a wide following, and he has appeared reguarly on local television. His Italian restaurant/delicatessen, located in San Francisco, has been praised by Gourmet magazine, which says, "Eating at Vivande is very much like being a guest in a large and friendly kitchen." Carlo is shown here outside his restaurant.