As she approaches nearly 30 seasons on public television, author and chef Mary Ann Esposito has brought the tastes and traditions of each distinctive region of Italy into our homes via America’s longest-running cooking show, Ciao Italia. This week, Homemade host Martie Duncan chats with Mary Ann about how her long, influential career came to be, as well as the “four evangelists” of regional Italian cooking, and her all-time favorite ingredients.

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