For deLutis, cooking really is his whole life

Chef Christian deLutis discovered a passion for cooking at a young age. Growing up in central Pennsylvania, he watched closely as his northern Italian grandmother cooked elaborate meals from scratch.

“You’d be swimming at my grandmother’s house, and there’d be towels on the line drying, and sheets of pasta on the line next to them,” he said. Her 21st birthday gift to him was her coveted pancetta recipe.