Passioni & Curiosita'

    Zucchini and cheese, just that! Many Italian pasta recipes are very simple and easy to make! The majority of the Italians, myself included, love pasta w ith vegetables. If you are so lucky to have fresh vegetables from your garden, you will be happy to eat pasta and these vegetables every day! As I was, when my mom grew all kinds of them in our garden! The "Spaghetti alla Nerano" is an excellent example of a simple but exquisite vegetable pasta recipe. It comes from Campania and includes ingredients typical of Neapolitan cuisine. This pasta dish is an example of how little Italian towns can have their own specialties. Spaghetti alla Nerano" was invented in the fifties by a woman called Maria Grazia in her restaurant, the dish is named after the beach town where it was invented, Nerano, a small town on the Sorrento peninsula. Apparently, the restaurant still exists and is being run by her grandchildren! A simply wonderful dish created with so few ingredients, the sec...

    A  little taste of Italy right in the heart of Seattle Seattle’s 34th Annual Festa Italiana the only “in-person” event of 2021, in the beautiful Fisher Pavilion and the surrounding grounds and buildings of the Seattle Center. Saturday & Sunday, September 25 & 26, 2021. Before COVID the Italian Festival has always been the largest Italian-American event in the Northwest and one of the largest cultural festivals in Washington State. Since 1988, Festa Italiana has been celebrating the cultural roots and history of Italians and Italian-Americans in the Pacific Northwest. I t’s a connection to a long tradition of passion, excellence, and accomplishment. As each generation of American moves further away from its immigrant origins, it becomes more and more urgent to recognize the talents and gifts that they have contributed to their adopted country by way of their heritage. Food is the central to the Italian character. Italian restaurants are ubiquitous throughout t...