Leta is a chef, mother, teacher, and pastaia. She discovered her love of pasta as a child over Sunday suppers in her Sicilian great-grandmother’s home. In 2008, she decided to follow her passion for food and cooking and enrolled in culinary school at Oregon Culinary Institute in Portland, OR. She went on to hone her pasta skills in kitchens all over the world including stints
in New York City and Italy. Leta has been teaching pasta classes in Portland, OR since 2016 and has been passionately creating and sharing her love of pasta with others ever since. Leta loves incorporating modern living with traditional techniques and historical wisdom in her cooking. In Italian kitchens, the pastaia is the matriarch, using her hands and ingenuity to feed her family.
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