Bella Cucina Artful Food is an award-winning product line of gourmet pestos, sauces, and preserves. They make gracious entertaining easy. Bella Cucina makes all of their products by hand in small batches in the traditional artisan manner. The products are all natural, made using the highest quality farm-grown produce, and contain no preservatives.
Bella Cucina's artichoke-lemon pesto was featured in
Oprah Magazine's The "O" List, chosen as one of Oprah's favorite gifts.
Alisa Barry, chef and founder of Bella Cucina, attended Tante Marie's Cooking School in San Francisco. After completing an internship at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Barry went to work for Vicki and Sam Sebastiani, who asked her to develop Italian-inspired dishes at their Viansa Winery & Italian Marketplace in Sonoma County. In the early 90s, she opened a small cafe in Atlanta. When customers kept asking to buy her pestos to take home, a specialty food business was born.
