Date/Time
Sunday 03/03/2019
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Museo Italo Americano
Categories
What is it about Italy? Cultural superpower yet merely a mountainous Mediterranean peninsula, Italy has exerted an outsized force on the world, Western civilization and the popular imagination over the course of millennia.
Carla Gambescia, area resident and author of La Dolce Vita University: An Unconventional Guide to Italian Culture from A-Z – a unique lifestyle compendium of all things Italian: food, wine, history, architecture, art, style, anecdotes, attitude – will be our guide as we explore the special alchemy of Italy and the cultural DNA that has made it not only so influential but also so beloved. This is a special edu-taining program for anyone curious about (or already in amore with) Italy and its remarkably rich cultural gifts.
Even the most sophisticated Italophile will discover fascinating new facts and insights.
Carla’s passion for Italy began early: with her mother’s love of the Renaissance masters and her father’s discourses on Italian geniuses of every calling. In the ensuing decades, she’s written about and toured every region of Italy on foot or by bicycle. Carla conceived and co-led the Giro del Gelato bicycle tour which won Outside magazine’s “Best Trip in Western Europe” and for nearly a decade owned and operated Via Vanti! Restaurant & Gelateria in Mount Kisco, New York. Via Vanti! won plaudits for its innovative Italian cuisine, extraordinary gelato (named “Best Gelato Shop in New York”) and on-going program of culinary and cultural events.
Carla was born and raised in South Philadelphia and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and The Wharton School of Finance.
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