Owner-Director: Silvestro Silvestori

With multiple degrees in humanities-related disciplines from both Italian and US universities, Silvestro Silvestori has worked as a baker, a butcher, a wine merchant, a wedding cake decorator and as a waiter in over thirty different restaurants.

Feeling a continual pull toward the pragmatic understanding of the foods and beverages we eat and drink, he continues to work brief stints in the various aspects of small-scale agricultural and food-production. To date he has participated in the wine-making process of four different nations.

He's taught photography (most of the photographs on this site are his) and both Italian and English grammar. The Awaiting Table allows him to return to his first love: teaching the authentic, regional Italian home cookery of Puglia, the birthplace of his great grand-parents.