"According to our Production Manager, "This tour will make you hungry!"  Maria Liberati is a former model turned celebrity chef and bestselling author of "The Basic Art of Italian Cooking." She has been featured in many international magazines due to her expertise in food and unusual travel destinations. Maria divides her time between the United States and Europe, where she hosts both culinary tours at a Tuscan farm resort, and cruises throughout the Mediterranean. She tells us in her new tour that, “For over one hundred years food lovers have been flocking to the 9^th Street Italian Market in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and you're about to find out why!  There are comfort foods and local staples like fresh, hand-made pasta and just-picked produce, right alongside exotic Italian imports: you'll find just what you're craving!”