Laurel Evans is an award-winning cookbook author, television personality, freelance writer, recipe developer and food-editor based in Milan, Italy since 2004. Fully immersed in a foreign culture, she have discovered in food both a common language and a symbol of home. Working closely as a team with her Italian husband, photographer Emilo Scoti, Laurel has published four cookbooks in Italian about traditional American cuisine. She released her first English-language work, Liguria, the Cookbook: Recipes from the Italian Riviera, with Rizzoli in 2021. Subsequently, she had the honor of guiding Stanley Tucci through Genoa for his “Searching for Italy” series, which is featured on Episode 8 of Season 2 of CNN’s original series.