About Us

The story of Biblioteca dei Sapori begins with Leone, who was born in Calabria in 1932. At the age of 6, he moved with his family to a small town in Sicily, where he took his first steps in the restaurant business in the post-war years.

In 1960, he left for the United States, where he worked as a chef in several Italian restaurants. When he returned to Italy ten years later, he opened his first restaurant, setting out to discover traditional and regional flavors.

More than forty years after the last restaurant closed, his grandson Christian found among his belongings a notebook in which Leone had written down all his recipes, with "My library" written on the cover. That discovery gave rise to the project "La Biblioteca dei Sapori": a journey that begins with Italy's regional cuisines, the result of research carried out by traveling across the country to discover traditional recipes to bring to tables around the world.

The goal is to bring the finest products from across Italy into the homes of Italians, both in Italy and abroad, through Nonno Leone's recipes. The project starts with two regions: Sicily, the family's homeland, and Piedmont, where the project is now based.