Pamela Sheldon Johns is a well-known cooking instructor and the host of culinary workshops throughout Italy. She has authored sixteen cookbooks, many specializing in Italian food, such as Parmigiano! and Balsamico! Pamela has spent twenty years exploring and writing about the back roads of Italian food culture. She hosts many of her food and wine workshops from Poggio Etrusco, her farm in Tuscany, which was recently featured as one of the top ten culinary workshops in Italy by Food & Wine magazine. She returns to the United States several times a year to teach cooking classes and promote her cookbooks.