Edward Giobbi

In his article, "Still Going Strong", New York Times, September 9, 2001, D. Dominick Lombardi wrote:

Zimmer notes Giobbi's use of a protagonist, Linus, addressing issues of loss and abandonment. See the article "In Katonah with Nothing But Abstractions to Consider" by Vivien Raynor, New York Times, July 19, 1992, and Giobbi's response, "The Myth of Linus in Greek Mythology" New York Times, September 16, 1992.

Giobbi's oral history interview, recorded by Paul Cummings in November and December 1977, is archived at the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art.

See also "An Artist Round When All Was Square", review of a Katonah Gallery show, New York Times, July 2, 1976.

Giobbi is the author of "Italian Family Cooking" (1971) and "Eat Right, Eat Well—The Italian Way" (1985). The second book was edited by noted cookbook editor Judith Jones and reflects Giobbi's back to nature lifestyle in imitation of his Italian ancestors who raised their own farm animals and grew their own vegetables and fruits. For "Pleasures of the Good Earth" (1991), Giobbi won a James Beard Foundation Award for culinary excellence in 1992. Giobbi collaborated with his daughter, Eugenia Giobbi Bone, for his most recent work, "Italian Family Dining: Recipes, Menus and Memories of Meals with a Great American Food Family" (2005)/ In 1990, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1992.

Returning to the Northeast in 1961, the Giobbis stayed in a friend's home in Greenwich, searching the tristate area for a home before settling in Katonah.

In speaking of his return to New York City in 1954, he said: "I had a special grant from the Art Students League, affording me time and space in the sculpture studio. I met my wife, Elinor Turner, there. In 1958, we decided to return to Europe. We got married in Switzerland."

After he finished school in Boston, Giobbi moved on to the Art Students League in Manhattan. "The League was fabulous in 1949," he said. "It was full of veterans who were no-nonsense. They had families, they experienced war, and there was no time for fussing around."

"After returning from the service in 1946, Giobbi worked in a foundry, earning enough money to begin his art education at Vesper George School of Art in Boston."

Edward Giobbi served in the U.S. Army, European Theatre, during World War Two, participating in the final push through Nazi Germany, having been deployed in 1945 to reinforce American units after "The Battle of The Bulge" or "Operation: Watch on The Rhine".

Edward Gioachino Giobbi (born July 18, 1926, in Waterbury, Connecticut) is an American artist and cookbook author.