Stephanie tantillo biography

 

Ciao! I’m Stephanie, passionate baker and storyteller of all things Sicilian cuisine.
          My journey into baking started as soon as I can remember seeing flour touch water, and the wondrous moment the two married and created bread.

Growing up in a Sicilian family, and having spent much of my life in Sicily-also known as the Granary of Rome, it’s no wonder the bread-romantic inside of me fell so in love with the Island of the Sun, and all of its beautiful food surrounded by-your guessed it-bread, and breadcrumbs.

         During undergrad I spent a year in Sicily, begrudgingly returning to finish my degree before promptly hopping back over the Atlantic for the school I really wanted, culinary school.  I attended Apicius International School of Culinary and Hospitality in Florence.

This was the best and hardest year of my life where I truly understood the regionality and the real techniques of an Italia