From the Calabrian diet of Molochio, where I spent childhood summers, to the pescetarian Ligurian diet of Genoa, where I was raised, to the heavy American diets of Chicago and Texas, to the health-obsessed diet of that mecca of youthfulness, Los Angeles—I’ve lived the full range of good, bad, and excellent nutrition, which has helped me formulate hypotheses about the connection between food, disease, and longevity.
