A former newspaper reporter, Domenica Marchetti is the author of four cookbooks with Chronicle: The Glorious Soups and Stews of Italy ; Big Night In: More Than 100 Wonderful Recipes for Feeding Family and Friends Italian Style ; The Glorious Pasta of Italy (named one of the eight best single-subject cookbooks of the last 25 years by the editors of Cooking Light ); and The Glorious Vegetables of Italy (2013). Her articles and recipes have been featured in The Washington Post , Food and Wine , Fine Cooking , and Cooking Light , and on Leite's Culinaria and NPR.org's Kitchen Window, among others. She is a founding member of the new online magazine American Food Roots , which launched in October 2012 and explores why we eat what we eat. She also blogs about Italian home cooking at her web site, www.domenicacooks.com; and is active on Twitter (@domenicacooks), Facebook (facebook.com/domenicacooks), Instagram (@domenicacooks), and on Pinterest.