Booze & Books with Eric Dregni

Parmesan thieves. Tortellini based on the shape of Venus’s navel. Infiltrating the secret world of the balsamic vinegar elite. “I simply want to live in the place with the best food in the world." 
This dream led Eric Dregni to Italy, first to Milan, Brescia and eventually to a small, fog-covered town to the north: Modena, the birthplace of Ferrari and Luciano Pavarotti and sister city of St. Paul. Join Eric at the Black Rooster for food, aperitivi, and funny stories from his food-obsessed chronicles of three years in Modena in Never Trust a Thin Cook.

Eric Dregni is an American author. He is an associate professor of English and Journalism at Concordia University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he teaches writing.