Piero Bonamico

One career ended. Curiosity took over.

I’m Piero Bonamico — musician until COVID closed that chapter, polymath ever since, by temperament and by opportunity. This is where it all lands: the cooking, the building, the writing, the video, the experiments with AI.

Start anywhereWho is this guy
Piero Bonamico holding a wooden crate stenciled POLYMATH, packed with a chef's knife, wooden spoon, cast-iron skillet, drill, camera, microphone, sheet music, bread, gin, and cables
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On the desk

Ramblings
Grandpy's Lincoln
An immigrant stone carver, Prohibition-era smuggling across a frozen Canadian border, and winter fishing runs in Grandpy's Lincoln Town Car — and how, fifty years on, the family story rhymes.
Recipes
Meatballs: A Template, Not a Recipe
One scalable baseline ratio — meat, egg, panade, seasoning — plus the method and flavor pathways to take it from Italian-American to Greek, Middle Eastern, or meatloaf.
Recipes
5 Gin-Based Cocktails
Five gin cocktails — Last Word, Aviation, Singapore Sling, Ramos Gin Fizz, and Martinez — with notes on Barr Hill, Green Hat, and Botanist gins, and a rule: the weakest ingredient sets the bar.
Portrait of Piero Bonamico
About

The short version

I spent my working life in music, retired when COVID closed the theaters, and the life that followed got wider, not smaller.

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