David Downie

David Downie was born in San Francisco and has spent the last 20 years kicking around Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia. He has contributed to several guidebooks, is the author of Un' Altra Parigi (travel essays, written in Italian, about Paris); Enchanted Liguria (a travel and food book about the Italian Riviera); and a novel, La Tour de l'Immonde (set in Paris). He writes as irreverently as possible on travel, food, and culture for a variety of American, British, and Italian magazines and newspapers.