Editor-in-Chief of La Cucina Italiana and President of the Steering Committee for the candidacy of Italian Cuisine for UNESCO Heritage status
Maddalena Fossati, journalist, author, and TV format curator, Maddalena Fossati has helped reshape the narrative of Italian food through a cultural, curious, contemporary, and sustainable lens. Since 2017, she has been the director of La Cucina Italiana, a famous magazine started in 1929 in Milan. She was also the lifestyle editor for Vanity Fair. In 2020, she launched the idea to nominate Italian cuisine as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. She successfully led the campaign to its official recognition in New Delhi on December 10, 2025, a journey she recently shared in her book Prendo fiato, published by Maretti Editore.
