John Moretti

In 1999, John Moretti left his job as a small-town reporter in Vermont in search of fame and fortune in Italy. Fame has thus far eluded him, and fortune may never arrive on his doorstep, but he did manage to find a job. For four years in Milan, he worked as an editor at a national newspaper in English, a joint venture between Corriere della Sera and the International Herald Tribune.

Later, as a freelancer in Southern Europe, John covered everything from the Tour de France to the Winter Olympics, to the redesign of the Auschwitz Holocaust Memorial in Poland and the plight of African prostitutes in Turin. His brief television career included an interview with Giorgio Armani for A&E’s Biography, and has worked on documentaries on farm-to-table living in Tuscany for Canadian television and on Italian soccer for Australian television.

He has produced guidebooks on almost every corner of Italy, as well as a book about the nuts and bolts of starting a new life there. These days, the subjects of John's writing are aimed at the crosshairs of food, education, health and travel.