Boston Globe: "Franklin’s Marcella DiChiara showcases Sicilian culture, cuisine on new season of ‘The Great American Recipe’"

"When Marcella DiChiara was 10, the “typical ‘80s latchkey kid” would come home from school and start cooking.

In her family’s Connecticut kitchen, young Marcella would pretend she was on a cooking show while making anything from Sicilian sauces to stuffed artichokes for family dinner. “I would act it out,” she said with a laugh.

Marcella DiChiara

Now a Franklin-based marketing director and mother of two, DiChiara was on the beach in her parents’ native Sicily last summer, when she got an Instagram alert. A casting director wanted the self-taught @bostonhomecooking to be on a cooking competition show.

Growing up, DiChiara and her three siblings spent every summer in Sicily, visiting family. While she showcases recipes on Instagram — from cooking linguine alle vongole or making homemade pasta with her mother, to sharing her tips for Sicilian fried zucchini — she’d never cooked competitively (or professionally) in her life."

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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/14/lifestyle/franklin-marcella-dichiara-pbs-sicilian-recipes/

Listen to the audio interview with Marcella -> https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-1207-marcella-dichiara-talks-about-the-great-american-recipe-season-3-05-17-24

The first show of Season 3 of the PBS show “The Great American Recipe” is scheduled for Monday, June 17 at 9 PM Eastern.

Full interview article with Marcella can be found -> https://www.franklinmatters.org/2024/05/marcella-dichiara-talks-about-her.html