Angela Baldanza lives in Pound Ridge, New York and has run Baldanza in New Canaan Connecticut with her family for the past 5-years. She is a self-taught, instinctive cook who excels at creating organic soups and dishes, fresh salads and baked goods. Angela believes she inherited her skills from her grandfather and brother, who were both chefs. With family from Genoa in Northern Italy and down South to Calabria, she was locked in to family traditions, such as the dried mushrooms arriving from Italy in a cheese cloth sack, allowing her Grandmother to make yellow rice (risotto flavored with saffron).