About Florentina
Florentina Lile is the Founder and Editor in Chief of the Ciao Florentina Magazine-a Food & Lifestyle Magazine that features sinfully delicious recipes, organic ingredients, rustic cooking with a passion to love. She ventures beyond the boundaries of the stove, exploring the worlds that make each meal delightfully perfect to inform and illuminate the senses we love. Bold, beautiful and unique, Ciao Florentina is a magazine on a mission to reshape the way you feel about food.
Florentina Lile is a highly influential Promotional Model, Food Blogger and Brand Ambassador who is devoted to your product and brand’s success.
Promotional Services
- In Store Sampling & Product Promotion with the focus on interacting and educating potential consumers with quality information about your product and brand.
- Live Cooking Demos
- Promotional Tour For Your Brand and Products
- Trade Show Promotion, Food & Wine Festival Promotion, Events and Golf Outings Hosting to Maximize Appearance and Increase Brand Visibility
- Online Brand and Product Promotion through all ” Ciao Florentina ” channels: (Food Blog, Ciao Florentina Magazine, E-mail List and Social Media Channels ) to create an association in the consumer’s mind between your product and a particular idea: healthy living, natural beauty etc.
- Recipe developer for promotional cookbook projects
The Story
” This is Florentina, or the “Woman of Florence” … just a literal translation as I am living la Bella Vita under the California Sun. It is my name where I probably got my love for the charm of the countryside, the peasants and their food.
Though I’ve been playing with food since I was a little girl, my real passion for all things food only started kicking in after my grandfather’s passing. I still remember him stirring the polenta pot for over one hour with a large wooden stick then dumping it all out on the wooden table and slicing it with a string. Or catching fish at the river with a net and frying it to a crisp perfection the moment he got home.
After it rained he would put on my rubber boots, plop me on the back seat of his old rusty bike and peddle away with me to the fields where we would sneak between bushes and thorns to gather mushrooms. I only loved his mushrooms though, the way he made them, sauteed in olive oil with onions and salt. To this day it is my favorite way of eating them, on bruschetta or fresh bread.
There was always hard work in the peasant’s life, poverty & sorrow but balanced by so much beauty and love.
And that’s a good life, that’s what this blog is all about, bringing people together and celebrating life around simple home cooked meals, sprinkled with love and surrounded by laughter. It it also about reclaiming a big part of myself, a part that is vital to life, the part that makes this journey worthwhile: my Spirit !
“Ciao Florentina” is where I share my passion for cooking with the world, it is a journal of a simple life filled with joy and laughter and sinfully delicious recipes. It is my second home where I hang my apron and my heart.
Feel free to browse through my delicious journalof a simple life that starts in the beautiful country side of the former Eastern Roman Empire -Romania, and ends in the Hills of Hollywood. “
” Ciao Florentina -Peace, Love & Food ” is the Food Memoir of a real Person, the girl who left behind the outward marks of success to find her true Passion and the meaning of love.
I hope you will enjoy your time around here, grab a cup of coffee, put your feet up and stay a while.
Get inspired, set the table, light a candle, dare to love someone !
Peace, Love & Food!
Florentina