Diane Manteca has been a professional chef for thirty-three years, working in high end gourmet establishments and catering. For eight years she owned the eclectic and popular Brickyard Café in Cambridge. Diane has co-authored a Zone cookbook on healthy eating and worked as a food consultant and developed recipes for a major specialty food company. Her teaching career spans over 30 years with Italian cooking as her specialty, along with Moroccan, African, Asian, Cuban French, and regional cooking from the United States. She travels to Italy often to learn regional Italian cooking and brings her knowledge back to teach her students.