Katie and Giancarlo have written over a dozen cookbooks covering such subjects as the food of regional Italy, food preservation and salads from around the world.
Following Giancarlo’s illness and adoption of a low-carb diet they focussed on the low-carb diet and wrote the best selling ‘The Diabetes Weight-loss Cookbook’ and ‘The Reverse Your Diabetes Cookbook’. Their next book ‘The 30 Minute Diabetes Cookbook’ is due out in March 2021.
Our Story
I fell for Giancarlo, the bright, bouncy, crazy Italian full of energy, fun and impetuous enthusiasm, 24 years ago. I met him when he commissioned me to paint a mural for him in his restaurant. After some months we got together and I entered the world of cooking. We opened restaurants and travelled back and forth between the UK and Italy to collect knowledge and recipes. We wrote a book, I learnt to speak Italian, we worked hard, cooked, made a TV series, wrote 14 more cookbooks, had two children and got married.
Around 11 years ago Giancarlo’s enthusiasm for life slowly dwindled. Both of us were overweight and he was always tired. I was testing recipes, writing and bringing up two boys; Giancarlo was working all hours. He would come in after a shift at the restaurant and devour the contents of the fruit bowl or he would cook a huge amount of pasta and eat it straight from the pan. If he didn’t eat within minutes of arriving home, he was unhappy. While driving he would eat raisins and at each garage stop, he would buy chocolate or biscuits.
Giancarlo feels great and I have a new slim husband, full of energy and fun once more. Our teenage boys have gradually become more low-carb and feel better for it. We have never insisted but they have seen the transformation in their dad and don’t want to suffer in the way he has.
