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About Jeralyn GerbaPavia Rosati

Pavia Rosati took her first plane journey at nine months old when her Italian mother took her to meet her grandparents at their villa outside Venice, a trip she repeated every year until college. As a result, her  American classmates thought she was too Italian ("Where did you get those shoes?") and her Italian aunts thought she was too American ("You're so bold!"). A voracious and tireless explorer, she has spent her career covering culture, entertainment, food, and travel, taking special pride in seeing it all to report on the things worth knowing. Part pragmatist, part nostalgist, and wholehearted enthusiast of the irreverent, Jeralyn Gerba started traveling when she finally made enough money from summer jobs to do so, and, while based in New York City for university, she also studied art history in Italy, politics and society in South Africa, and food culture in Louisiana, among other things. She started writing about art, culture, nightlife, food, and items people make by hand, and figured out that she was happiest when comparing and collecting those observations with others.