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Camille Cusumano is a journalist, book author, and editor. She has written for numerous publications. She is the author of the 2000 novel, The Last Cannoli (Legas). Her 2026 novel, The Mystique of the Last Cannoli, follows the same characters as they mature with new intrigues and dramas. Her travel memoir, TANGO: an Argentine Love Story , was published in 2008 by Seal Press.
She is also the editor of popular anthologies on France, Italy, Greece, and Mexico (Seal Press). In 2014, she set up year-long tango instruction for Nairobi youth living in poverty. See Tango Goes to Africa.
Camille has traveled widely and has lived abroad, including in southern France and 2006–10 in Buenos Aires. She continues to report and write on tango, Argentina, and many topics: climbing mountains, other adventure travel, food, culture, big family, and her travels with Sister Grace.
Camille was an editor at VIA Magazine, the West’s award-winning travel publication, for 17 years. Her work has appeared in publications such as National Geographic Traveler, the San Francisco Chronicle, North American Review, Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times. Her cookbook credits include The New Foods (Henry Holt), America Loves Salads (Literary Guild), Rodale’s Basic Natural Foods Cookbook (co-written with Carol Munson, Editor Charles Gerras), and Tofu, Tempeh, and Other Soy Delights (Rodale). Her late mother’s Sicilian-American cookbook, La Cucina di Carmela, was assembled and edited by her and her nine siblings, with loving vignettes by the ten children, some of the spouses and many grandchildren.
Watch her 2013 TEDx Talk on the Lower Eastside of Manhattan, Tango, the Dance, the Journey, the Transformation.
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