A WELL SEASONED LIFE

The Italian American Museum cordially invites you to attend a book presentation and signing featuring Italian American author Carol O'Biso. Please join us as Ms. O'Biso presents her new book, “A Well Seasoned Life: A Daughter's Tales From Her Father's Kitchen”.

A Well Seasoned Life is a voyage through the 1950s in a first-generation Italian American household in which the preparation and eating of meals played a magical and central role. At the heart of the story is Carol’s father, Gus O’Biso, a Sicilian jeweler in Manhattan’s diamond district who discovers that he is also a phenomenal cook when his wife decides to go back to school to become a teacher and needs time to study. While the central story is the way food, its preparation and its eating bound, strengthened and enlivened her family, the book also traces both Gus’s passage and that of the world around him, offering the reader a tour through the twentieth century as seen through the prism of one man’s family. This memoir serves as a frequently hilarious but poignant tribute to her father, who was born in Racalmuto, Sicily, in 1909 and emigrated to the United States in 1921. The memoir is full of acute observations of how this country changed over the course of her father's lifetime and uses cleverly integrated census data, sensory detail and facts and figures to take the reader on a lively tour throughout the twentieth century. For further details and reviews, please follow this link: http://www.amazon.com/Well-Seasoned-Life-Daughters-Fathers/dp/1466224800/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327085784&sr=8-1

Ms. O'Biso will read excerpts from her book and a brief Question and Answer period with the Author will follow the presentation.

About the Author:

Carol O’Biso was born in New Jersey and began her career in the museum world in New York City. She is currently a free-lance writer and editor and lives in rural New York State. Her previous book, First Light, a culture-clash story chronicling her work organizing an international tour of native Maori art never before seen outside New Zealand, was published in New Zealand (where she lived for 11 years) in 1987 and in the US and Canada in 1989. The New Zealand Herald, Auckland's largest circulation daily called it, “Jaunty, edgy and powerfully moving. O’Biso will soon be releasing a new, author’s edition of First Light with pictures.