Andrew Cotto

Andrew Cotto is an award-winning author and regular contributor to The New York Times. He has also written for Men's Journal, La Cucina Italiana, Rolling Stone, Parade, Conde Nast Traveler, Rachael Ray In Season, Italy magazine and more. Andrew lives in Brooklyn, NY.


My “Italian Adventure” novels are love letters to Italy. There’s no other way to describe the experiences of an American who arrives in Italy on holiday and decides to never leave. Both Cucina Tipica (2018) and Cucina Romana (2021) have characters and plot, conflict and resolution, humor and pathos, but all of these traditional narratives are infor...