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Mary Esposito was born on August 3, 1942 in Buffalo, New York, United States, in the family of Roy J. and Louise Saporito. Her grandmothers, both professional chefs, moved to the United States from Italy in the 1890s. While her grandmothers provided traditional Italian food, Esposito desired to eat standard foods like other children: Wonder Bread and iceberg lettuce.
Esposito, who never intended to pursue a career in cooking, learned to cook from her family.
Esposito attended college, where she would graduate with a teaching degree and become an elementary school teacher.
Mary began learning the history of Italian cooking, region by region, and traveling to the country twice a year for cooking lessons. At the University of New Hampshire she took classes to learn how to speak Italian. By 1985, she had joined the history master's program at the university, writing her thesis about Italian Renaissance cooking.
Esposito started teaching cooking through the University of New Hampshire's Division of Continuing Education. In the mid-1980s, she submitted a proposal for a cooking show to New Hampshire Public Television. The show was delayed production because of the small size of the television station; however, upon moving to a larger station, a pilot was taped.Upon airing, the pilot received great reception and the longest-running television cooking show was born.
Esposito has published over a dozen cooking books about Italian cooking and entertaining. She makes over forty public appearances a year nationally and has appeared on the Today Show, Regis and Kathie Lee, QVC, the Food Network, Martha Stewart Living Radio, and other programs. She contributed to The Huffington Post and New Hampshire Home.
Since 1989, Mary Ann Esposito has hosted a weekly PBS cooking show called “Ciao Italia,” on which she instructs her viewers in preparing a variety of authentic Italian dishes, and educates them about Italian history and folklore. According to a 1996 press release, “Ciao Italia” has aired on more than 250 public television stations, and “is one of the most-watched PBS cooking programs, with about one million viewers per episode per week.”Esposito has also published over a dozen cookbooks.
Describes her political views as Independent.
Quotations: When it comes to holidays and special occasions, I am a hopeless sentimentalist. I regard these occasions as unique links in our lives that reaffirm our feelings for those we care about. For me, the preparing and sharing of food is one of the best expressions of those feelings.
In 1968 Mary married Guy M. Esposito. They had two children: Elizabeth and Christopher.
