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Nadia Caterina Munno takes viewers into the exciting world of Italian food in The Pasta Queen, which can be watched on Prime Video. Munno turned traditional cooking into an exciting study of culture and storytelling, which made her a TikTok star and a best-selling author. Her vibrant kitchen creations in Florida are shown next to beautiful trips through Italy in each half-hour episode, combining the immediacy of social media with the depth of traditional media narrative.

At its core, The Pasta Queen combines culinary art with cultural commentary, following a trend in which cooking shows go beyond recipes to discuss identity and heritage. Munno’s journey emphasizes the significance of family traditions in Italian cooking, turning each dish into a story full of history.

This approach resonates with audiences looking for authenticity, showcasing how food can be used to represent cultural identity and engage in social debate. The show shows...

Move over Lidia Bastianich. Watch out, Stanley Tucci. The Pasta Queen is becoming America’s most beloved and popular interpreter of Italian cuisine.

The Rome-born Nadia Caterina Munno, a Tampa-based influencer and food guru who only moved to the United States in 2015, has 11.5 million followers across social media platforms. On Instagram, she has 4.5 million, on Tiktok 3.8 million, on Youtube 1.2 million, on Facebook 1.1 million followers.

Munno got her start on TikTok in the midst of the pandemic, where she endeared herself to viewers with lively cooking videos focused on Italian cuisine and, more specifically, pasta. The flamboyant social media star is known for her catch phrase “just gorgeous,” which she says with flair when revealing her plated dishes. The mother of four has partnered with brands like Williams-Sonoma and Whole Foods and has a line of high-end copper cookware with Ruffoni.

Munno is about to publish her second cookbook with Simon & Schuster...

If youve ever caught the Pasta Queen, Nadia Caterina Munno on TikTok or Instagram, you already know shes the real deal. With her larger-than-life personality walking us through cooking demos and making every dish look drop-dead gorgeous, its no secret her vibrant nature has millions of fans and a spot on the New York Times bestseller list. The Italian-born chef and entrepreneur is not just cooking pasta, shes living and breathing it, and now taking it to the next level with her new Prime Video series, The Pasta Queen. Bringing us on a vibrant journey across four regions of Italy, Munno delves deep into the heart of local ingredients, regional traditions, and culinary stories. But its not just about the food, as she shares in an exclusive interview with Collider.

Following the debut of The Pasta Queen on Amazon Prime Video, viewers have scoured the internet for more information on star Nadia Munno's husband, Brook Zimmatore.

Munno built a massive social media following before her work on The Pasta Queen, named after her nickname. The Prime Video series shows Munno traveling through Italy and working in her kitchen, sharing ingredients from parts of Italy and making authentic dishes native to the country.

The end of Episode 8 briefly shows 42-year-old Brook Zimmatore, Munno's husband, as the series debuted on October 24.

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Theres something inherently soothing about cooking shows as they tap into our love for food while offering us a vibrant kaleidoscope of diverse cultures, traditions, and flavors. As viewers, these kinds of shows provide more than just recipes for our comfort watches. The best of them bring stories to life through a unique blend of fresh ingredients, history, and humor into an unforgettable journey outside our kitchens. With more shows incorporating travel and culinary traditions as a form of self-care, with icons like Stanley Tucci and Padma Lakshmi, social media has worked to seamlessly fold in traditional storytelling to expand the beloved genre, as seen in Prime Videos strikingly funny and smart original series The Pasta Queen starring Nadia Caterina Munno.

Nadia Caterina Munno, star and executive producer of The Pasta Queen which arrives on Prime Video Oct. 24 highlighted two main ingredients that make the show unlike anything that has come before it: five generations of her Italian family and their perspective of Italy versus an American one.

Munno, who descends from an Italian pasta dynasty dating back to the 1800s and has gathered millions of TikTok and Instagram followers, will take audiences through four different regions of Italy to explore cooking. The thirteen episodes of the unscripted series will take viewrs through Campania, Puglia, Emilia Romagna and Lazio, where Rome is the capital. Lazio, Campania and Puglia were whre Munno was raised, and her father’s family comes from Campania. She wanted to include Emilia Romagna because of all of the well-known ingredients that come from that region.

“Prosciutto, balsamic vinegar, parmigiano reggiano, mortadella. I mean, the biggest, most famous ingredients come from that region,...

The Pasta Queen is coming soon to Prime Video. The streaming service has released a premiere date, a trailer, and key art for the new culinary travel series.

With millions of followers on TikTok and Instagram, Nadia Caterina Munno will lead the series, take viewers through Italy, and then head back into the kitchen to create authentic Italian dishes.

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Today, Prime Video released the official trailer and key art for the new culinary travel series, The Pasta Queen, taking you through many regions to discover the beauty of cooking. All 13 episodes are set to debut exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide on Thursday, October 24.

The series features Nadia Caterina Munno, a descendant of an Italian pasta dynasty, who has racked up millions of followers on TikTok and Instagram.

In each episode, audiences will travel through Italy with Nadia, then spend time in her chef’s kitchen as she shares essential ingredients from the Italian regions she visited and makes authentic Italian dishes with love.

Nadia Caterina Munno is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author celebrated for her contagious energy, love for people, classic recipes, and spreading the beauty of Italy worldwide. Born and raised in Rome, she comes from a...

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Prime Video’s new culinary travel series, The Pasta Queen, will be available for streaming in over 240 countries and territories from 24 October. The show stars social media sensation and chef Nadia Caterina Munno, a descendant of a long line of Italian pasta makers. Each episode takes audiences on a trip through Italy with Munno, […]

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Today, Prime Video announced that it has ordered The Pasta Queen to series. The culinary travel series from Hello Sunshine, a part of Candle Media, features social media sensation and chef Nadia Caterina Munno.

The Pasta Queen will exclusively stream on Prime Video in over 240 countries and territories worldwide on October 24.

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“Nadia has built an engaged and loyal social media presence through her unique and stylized celebration of her Italian culture and the meals around which her family is built,” said Lauren Anderson, head of Brand and Content Innovation at Amazon MGM Studios.

“Now with Hello Sunshine and thanks to the efforts of the Prime Video unscripted team, The Pasta Queen will expand her presence by giving global audiences a front-row seat to her culinary and sartorial creativity.”

The series features Nadia Caterina Munno, a descendant of an Italian pasta dynasty, who has racked up...

Amazon Prime Video announced today a series order for the culinary travel series “The Pasta Queen.”

The series, produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine production company, features influencer and chef Nadia Caterina Munno. It will premiere on Prime Video on Oct. 24.

“I’m so excited to share with the world the debut of my series ‘The Pasta Queen,'” Caterina Munno said. “I’m proud to have worked with such amazing partners, Hello Sunshine and Prime Video, to bring this to life. Come on a journey with me into my home kitchen and across my beloved Italy to experience first-hand my just gorgeous world of authentic Italian food, family and culture.”

Caterina Munno is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author born and raised in Rome. She comes from a long family line of pasta makers dating back to the 1800s. She’s appeared on shows like “Today,...

The Pasta Queen is extending her reign to the TV airwaves (or whatever the streaming equivalent is).

Prime Video announced on Tuesday that it has ordered — with a sprinkling of freshly grated parmesan — The Pasta Queen, a culinary travel series to be hosted by the eponymous Nadia Caterina Munno, who has millions of followers on both Instagram and TikTok.

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The Pasta Queen herself, Nadia Caterina Munno, is coming to Prime Video with a culinary travel series of the same name. The Pasta Queen, from Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, will premiere October 24, exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

The series features Munno, descendant of an Italian pasta dynasty, who has racked up millions of followers on TikTok and Instagram. Each episode, audiences will travel through Italy with Nadia, then spend time in her chef’s kitchen as she shares essential ingredients from the Italian regions she visited, and makes authentic Italian dishes with love.

“Nadia has built an engaged and loyal social media presence through her unique and stylized celebration of her Italian culture and the meals around which her family is built,” said Lauren Anderson, head of Brand and Content Innovation, Amazon MGM Studios. “Now with Hello Sunshine and thanks to the efforts...

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TikTok creator and Italian-born cook Nadia Caterina Munno, known affectionally to her fans as “The Pasta Queen,” has signed with CAA.

Munno got her start on TikTok in the midst of the pandemic, where she endeared herself to viewers with lively cooking videos focused on Italian cuisine and, more specifically, pasta. The creator and chef is originally from Southern Italy, where she comes from a family of pasta and wine makers who were nicknamed the “Macaronis” in Rome.

Today, Munno has more than 2.6 million followers and is known for her catch phrase “just gorgeous,” which she says with flair when revealing her plated dishes. The mother of four has partnered with brands like Williams-Sonoma and Whole Foods and has a line of high-end copper cookware with Ruffoni. Last month, Munno also published her first cookbook with Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books imprint; during the week of Nov.

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In a social-media landscape where short-form videos, witty voiceovers and camera-friendly personas tend to reign supreme, digital food creators have turned to a far more traditional medium to continue their success: cookbooks.

TikTok star Nadia Caterina Munno, known as “The Pasta Queen,” published her first cookbook on Nov. 8 with Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books; as of Nov. 17, the book has reached the No. 5 spot in the New York Times best seller list in the advice, how-to and miscellaneous category.

Chef Joshua Weissman, who has 7 million subscribers on YouTube and more than 6 million on TikTok, parleyed his online popularity into An Unapologetic Cookbook, which was published in Sept. 2021 with Dk and nabbed a top spot on the New York Times best-seller list shortly after its debut in the same category for cookbooks, securing a spot in the list for a total of 9 weeks.

TikTok‘s self-dubbed Pasta Queen is embarking on her first book tour.

Nadia Caterina Munno, who’s from a longtime pasta-making family in Rome and shares Italian recipes with more than 5 million followers on TikTok, will publish her debut cookbook, The Pasta Queen: A Just Gorgeous Cookbook, Nov. 8.

That night, she’ll be in New York City, hosting a dinner at Italian eatery La Devozione as well as a premiere signing.

The Pasta Queen: A Just Gorgeous Cookbook (published by Simon & Schuster) has over 100 recipes, plus stories from Munno to go along with them. Its back cover copy promises readers will be guided “through the process of creating the perfect pasta, from a bowl of naked noodles to a dish large and complex enough to draw tears from the gods.”

Among the dishes are Munno’s viral hits like classic lemon pasta and her own Assassin’s Spaghetti, a red-sauce dish with tomato purée,...