How To Be Italian, A Love Letter to Italy

“Doesn’t everybody want to be Italian?”

This is the starting point – as well as the final words – for Maria Pasquale's new book How to be Italian, published by Smith Streets Book. 

Australian-born from an "all Italian" family; both her parents were born in Italy, and their families left for Australia when her father was a teenager and her mother a baby. While Australia is home, they are still connected to their origins. 

Maria is currently working as a F