User:EdBattle3355

I registered as a Wikipedia contributor because I wanted to add information about the life and career of Vincent Schiavelli, a close personal friend for 30 years. The information I added can be verified further in his three cookbooks, which are also memoirs.

The earlier version of Vincent's Wikipedia entry provided excellent information on his film career, but lacked some useful content on his 'second career' as a cookbook author/memoir writer, an aspect of his life that was important to him. After the death of his father from complications of Marfan's Syndrome when Vincent was three, he was raised in the household of his maternal grandfather, Papa Andrea, who was a 'monzu' in Sicily before immigrating to Brooklyn. The 'monzus' were the trained chefs of the Sicilian aristocracy. In other words, Vincent learned to cook from a professional chef with whom he lived from the age of three.

Notably, I added the titles and publication dates of Vincent's three cookbooks/memoirs, all of which are still in print and available.

I also wanted to correct an error. Vincent had one son, Andrea, by his first marriage. He had no children by his second marriage. A previous version of the Wikipedia entry indicated in two places that he had a child by his second marriage.