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{{Short description|Italian chef, magazine editor, food writer and author}}
{{Infobox person
|name = Ada Boni
|image = Ada Boni (sq cropped).jpg
|birthname = Ada Giaquinto
|birth_place = [[Rome]], [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]]
|birth_date = {{birth date|1881|10|11|df=yes}}
|death_place = Rome, Italy
|death_date = {{death date and age|1973|5|2|1881|10|11|df=yes}}
|occupation = Professional chef; cookbook author and magazine editor
|nationality = Italian
}}
'''Ada Boni''' ({{née|'''Giaquinto'''}}; 1881–1973) was an [[Italians|Italian]] chef, magazine editor, food writer and book author. Her most famous book, ''[[Il talismano della felicità]]'' (''The Talisman of Happiness'' in English), published in 1928, is considered one of the classic Italian cookbooks<ref name="Andrews2011">{{cite book|author=Andrews, Colman|title=Country Cooking of Italy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VCHQreJdci0C&pg=PT291|date=9 November 2011|publisher=Chronicle Books|isbn=978-0-8118-6671-2|page=291}}</ref><ref name="Hosking2006">{{cite book|author=Hosking, Richard|title=Authenticity in the Kitchen: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HflTVd898PAC&pg=PT212|year=2006|publisher=Oxford Symposium|isbn=978-1-903018-47-7|pages=212–213}}</ref> and is still very popular.<ref name=ChicTribDaley>{{cite news|last=Daley|first=Bill|title=Culinary Giant: Ada Boni - Wrote the must-have cookbook for generations of Italian women|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2013/05/15/culinary-giant-ada-boni/|access-date=15 March 2014|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=15 May 2013}}</ref> She also wrote the notable book, ''La cucina romana'' (''[[Roman Cuisine]]'' in English), with the stated aim of saving traditional cuisine that was being lost.
==Bibliography==
*Boni, Ada (1929). ''[[Il talismano della felicità]]''. I Ed.
*Boni, Ada (1930). ''La cucina romana''. Rome: Edizioni di Preziosa.
*Boni, Ada (1969). ''Italian Regional Cooking''. New York: Bonanza Books.
*Riolo, Claudio (2004). "Ada Boni" in ''Le Italiane''. vol. II.
==See also==
*[[Italian cuisine]]
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