Dick Rosano has been writing about wine, food, and travel for many years. His long-running columns have appeared in The Washington Post, Wine Enthusiast, Country Inns, United Airlines Hemispheres magazine, and many other nationally distributed publications. In a writing career that has spanned three decades, he has been the featured commenter – in print and in person – on every region of the world, recently collecting his experiences and adding the title of guest lecturer on Viking Cruise Lines to his already long résumé.
Dick has written a history book, Wine Heritage: The Story of Italian American Vintners (Foreward by Robert Mondavi) which chronicles the influence that Italians and Italian-Americans have had on the growth and evolution of the American wine industry.
Dick’s frequent travels to Europe, especially Italy, have inspired him to use his talents as a travel writer and story teller to publish three recent mystery novels: Tuscan Blood, Hunting Truffles, and The Secret of Altamura: Nazi Crimes, Italian Treasure. All are set in Italy, each has a new cast of characters, and each draws on the culture, traditions, and lives of the people of the region portrayed.
Dick has lectured on wine for the American Institute of Food and Wine, the National Italian-American Foundation, and at the Smithsonian Institution, Johns Hopkins University, and at many conferences around the United States. His extensive public speaking record and long career with wine-food subjects led a very popular series of classes at Washington, D.C.’s L’Academie de Cuisine.
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