About Elaine Iagatta

Elaine Iagatta lives in Belmont, MA just outside of Boston, but grew up in Walpole, MA. She’s an author, award-winning fine artist, lifelong Farm-to-Table chef, and baker. She wrote the original manuscript I WAS THE SHY ONE that is her Great Aunt Ada Angus’ memoir as told to her. And she is the creator of Magnet For Mayhem Productions, LLC. Most days she is well entertained by her huge Maine Coon cat Rocco as well as her brood of Italian Greyhounds: Romeo, Cesar, Rebel, Turbo, and Sal. Elaine’s family tree is predominantly Italian with one branch hailing from Scotland.

As a chef and baker, Elaine found this to be a heartbreaking but dazzling recovered artifact from 13,000 feet below on the floor of the Atlantic. The RMS Titanic’s third baker, William E. Hine’s name was embroidered on the brim of his baker’s toque. It was sold one hundred years after the sinking (almost to the day) at the April, 2012 Guernsey’s Auctioneers & Brokers auction in New York.

Photo: Birmingham Mail.co.uk

Birmingham Mail.co.uk

The Titanic’s Au Gratin dishes sat in complete darkness since April 14, 1912 approximately 12,500 feet below the ocean surface. 

“Elaine Iagatta is an extraordinarily gifted writer. Before I opened I WAS THE SHY ONE I was expecting the work of a well meaning amateur. Instead, I got Hemingway.”

 

– Jon Molin,
New York’s Favorite Coffee, Co- Founder

“She (Elaine) certainly knows how to write, and it is an interesting story that has commercial appeal because of the connection to the Titanic.”

– Nelson DeMille
Famed Long Island author

“The rich texture of Elaine’s writing is incredibly strong – it moved me to tears three times. Any time written words on a page affect the reader profoundly, it’s powerful writing.”

– Kathleen Spivack
Award winning author