Italian Friends: Cake
I Want My Baba
For years, my parents and their Italian friends threw a weekly party that followed the same format: laughing and talking and singing, eating, and a card game that lasted until 1 or 2 in the morning. They would take turns; each week a different couple would host the party and prepare a lavish buffet.I always looked forward to the parties at our house. My father would go to Capri Market and buy paper-thin slices of rosy prosciutto, large rounds of pink mortadella with big creamy flecks of...
Italian Friends: KITCHEN OF CARING
Each Saturday, the needy get meals and compassion at St. Angela's Church
Two Saturdays each month, the kitchen at St. Angela Merici Roman Catholic Church in Brea turns into a friendly bantering ground among two long-time Italian friends. Sal Gambina holds court over the immense pot of secret soup, throwing one-liners at his friend, Ernie Domenico. Their families came from different sides of Italy and each thinks the other is better.And so the morning goes, the two cooks sharing laughter, jokes and the one thing that makes the morning so special: generosity....
Italian Friends: Barry Lorge
LOS ANGELES -- I expected to find my Italian friends apoplectic when I arrived at the Sports Arena yesterday for the evening rounds of an Olympic boxing competition that has been accused of Ugly Americanism. I had just watched Howard Cosell railing on ABC-TV about the gross injustice done an Italian heavyweight named Angelo Musone, who was awarded a 3-2 victory by the judges who watched him fight American Henry Tillman, but had the decision reversed by an appeals jury, 5-0. Musone, who...
Italian Friends: Italians enjoy taste of the West
Italian aristocrats Dr. Giampiero Colonna and his wife, Dr. Claudia Fenati, were among Italian friends who came to Colorado Springs for a six-week visit as guests of Roberto Agnolini. Among the visitors were Roberto's sister, Lydia Bianchi and her husband, Gianni, and their children Sylvia and Gianni; Dr. Pierpaolo Bo, Giovanna Fenati, Carla Garavini, and Giovanna's daughter, Francesca Tappi, who enrolled as a student this fall at Fountain Valley School. ...
Italian Friends: Festive luncheon at Park Plaza honors 2 local Italian-Americans
Leave it to our Italian friends to wring every bit of good they can from an event, giving us our money's worth 20 times over. Such was the case with the New Haven Women's Division of the American Committee on Italian Migration at a luncheon last Sunday in the Park Plaza.Ralph Marcarelli and Theresa Argento were the honorees. But ACIM's women, bless their hearts, weren't content to leave it at that.They also tossed in fall fashions from...