Photo: Matt Friedman

Written in her own words, “Lucia’s Survival Guide and Cookbook” transports Lucille “Lucia” Campilongo’s voice and warm sense of humor to anyone needing or wishing they had a little motherly advice.

A seasoned, enterprising and proficient homemaker, she grew up in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco. She is a wife, mother and grandmother living today in Northern California with her husband, Victor.