Bob Pastorio
Author of Hello Very Much
Bob Pastorio has been writing for publication since high school and was graduated from Rutgers University with a BA in English. Beginning in the early sixties, he progressed through being an advertising and promotion writer, marketer and, ultimately, an executive with world-wide programs. While living in Brussels, Belgium he attended professional cooking instruction programs that specialized in classic French cuisine. In the nineteen seventies, he left corporate life to run two award-winning restaurants, The Different Drummer Restaurant and The Panama Cafe in Staunton, Virginia. Later, he went to Massanutten Resort to run food service operations. Ski Magazine said that the resort had the second best food of any east coast resort, behind only the much larger Killington. From 1992 to 1995, he and other family members ran another Different Drummer Restaurant in Harrisonburg, Virginia.Bob has been interested in
teaching, food writing, recipe and product development and foodservice
consulting, even while in the restaurant business. For the past eight
years he has taught the techniques of cooking through the 12-session "CuisineCraft"
series he created and has worked with large and small companies in their
operations, products and marketing. He
has been doing a radio call-in program about food and cooking for nearly
a decade and a daily, weekday, drive time two-minute program called "Soundbites"
that centers on food, manners and mores, and anything else to do with
the table. He has written a weekly column called "Foodlore" since 1989,
and has done TV demonstrations of cooking, fancy garnishing and presentation.
One PBS program called "Gourmet Music" featured Bob preparing food for
an elegant dinner party while a chamber music group played in the background.
Bob is a frequent featured guest on the "News at Noon" program on an ABC-TV
affiliate in Harrisonburg,
VA.
Bob has had articles published by The Virginian Magazine, USAir Magazine, The New York Times Syndicate The Los Angeles Times Syndicate and others. He has more than 450 food-related articles to his credit. In the 1991 Reader's Digest-West Virginia University jointly sponsored manuscript contest, Bob garnered all five places in the column category.