Gio Fasano is the author of Culinary Travels and giositaly.com two blogs about healthy food, organic wines, travel and his creative life. When he’s not eating or cooking, Gio runs his own companies, Green Italy Tours, and Italian Countryside, featured on House Hunters International and USA Today. Before leaping into the world of food, he worked for several architectural firms and construction companies in Europe and the Middle East. He also worked on week ends at Oddbins in London where he learned about wines from the “new world”...
Gio’s education is varied. He started with engineering at the George Washington University in DC and moved to architecture with a degree from the Catholic University of America. After college he spent a year working on organic farms in Tuscany, where he harvested wine grapes, and planted an olive orchard. In the past ten years he has shared his honest adventures in the kitchen with many guests from all over the world; he has founded the “Puglia Chef Academy” and the “Olive Wood Cafe” in Ostuni as well as a restaurant within his family resort in Taranto (Mon Reve). When not working on cooking and eating food, he blows off steam (and calories) sailing off the coast of Puglia, where he lives. Gio is an avid supporter of the arts, incurable doodler, owner of too many cookbooks and classic cars and human to Bob , a bouncy jack russell who serves as the PCA Chief Executive Officer. Gio believes that good food and wine broadens your horizon and gives you new perspectives :)
We’ve had a lot of help along the way. Beside our amazingstaff, Dora, Mary, Gianfranco, Angela and Francesca, some of the most well-known chefs as well as lifestyle and wellness personalities continue to lend us their advice and support as well as food lovers like yourself. We give top consideration to eco-friendly practices that promote sustainability and ethical sourcing of products that are environmentally sound and health‐sustaining, while maintaining a genuine concern for community-driven charity partnerships.
