Ana Maria Da Costa Vasconcellos
Ana Maria da Costa, economist and food expert, lives in Italy since 1983 and writes about Italian food from the inside on her website All About Italian Food
Articles by this Author
Italian Risotto
- By Ana Maria Da Costa Vasconcellos
- Published November 19th, 2008
- Food and Drink
- Unrated
The Italian risotto became known as another Italian typical dish, even if rice isn’t original from Italy as pasta
Rice is a cereal as corn or wheat, but less fat and is eaten by half world population
The Mediterranean Diet
- By Ana Maria Da Costa Vasconcellos
- Published October 8th, 2008
- Food and Drink
- Unrated
The Mediterranean diet has its origins on the countries that face the Mediterranean Sea: Southern Italy, Spain, Greece, Crete, ex-Yugoslavia, Turkey and Tunisia
Along their unlucky story plain of hunger and misery, these people were able to set a diet based on their land’s products, mainly vegetarian

