He hosted The Romagnolis’ Table, an American program about Italian cookery, alongside his wife Margaret, from 1973 to 1975.
While working at a film studio, he met Margaret O’Neill, an American information officer for the Marshall Plan.
After a trip back to Italy, the couple put forward the idea of an Italian home cooking program.
[1] His last book, The Bicycle Runner: A Memoir of Love, Loyalty, and the Italian Resistance, was published in 2009, after his death.
The book is his reminiscences of "growing up in Italy during the war", of his experiences in the fascist Youth Organization, and his joining the underground Resistance.