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LA CUCINA ITALIANA

La Cucina Italiana is the most recent acquisition by Condé Nast Italia (it was bought in 2013) and its only native Italian brand. Since its founding in 1929, the brand is the most authoritative voice of Italian food and hospitality. A restyling completed in late 2017, while rediscovering a vintage logo and keeping the trademark in-house cooking and testing, introduced a more contemporary and sophisticated photographic language, and an editorial mix enriching the recipes with orginal news, longform reporting and “food stories”. The magazine’s cooking school, La Scuola, offers beginners, professionals and corporate courses, and through on-site and off-site events is the live dimension of the brand. The social and digital platforms are booming.

La Cucina Italiana

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Maddalena Fossati Dondero

​Maddalena Fossati is Editor in Chief of La Cucina Italiana and Head of Editorial Content of Condé Nast Traveller Italia.Since joining Condé Nast in 2010 as Lifestyle Editor of Vanity Fair Italia, she has developed extensive expertise across the worlds of food, travel, and design.An author and prominent cultural voice, she contributed in 2004 to the first Dictionary of Fashion published by Baldini &amp; Castoldi and has written several books, including Chopard Mille Miglia (2008), La mia cucina by Antonio Guida for Mandarin Oriental (2020), and Prendo Fiato. Come ho portato la cucina italiana all’UNESCO (Maretti Manfredi Edizioni, 2025), chronicles of the institutional and cultural journey she personally led.As President of the Promoting Committee, she coordinated the initiative that resulted, on December 10, 2025, in the inscription of the dossier “Italian cuisine, between sustainability and biocultural diversity” on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity — a historic milestone in the international recognition and promotion of Italian gastronomic culture.Alongside her editorial career, she is also active in television: in 2019 she hosted the program Sapore Italiano for Food Network, and since 2025 she has been part of the cast of Alessandro Borghese – Celebrity Chef on TV8.

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