“Only in America”: an invigorating memoir of a self-made chef. “Only in America” is the creation of published author Emilia Zecchino, an accomplished chef, renowned founder of specialty frozen food company Holiday Foods, and war bride from Italy who first settled in Flushing, New York, in 1947.

Dorothy Ross, commissioner of Hallandale city beach, writes, “Emilia Zecchino’s story is extremely interesting and fascinating ... One of inspiration guided by divine consecration and state of the art opportunity. Not surprising, the culinary theme runs through her life. First in a grocery store where the delicious smells of cooking invited local housewives to shop, through the trials and tribulations of growing her business to the last anxious moments of the sale of Holiday Foods to the Schwan Food Company.”