Ciao and Chow

Mother Nature forced the cancellation of a flyover by the Italian Air Force’s answer to the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels – the 63-year-old Frecce Tricolori aerobatics team. The occasion was a Festival Italiano held at the Cabrillo Pavilion marking the first visit of the Los Angeles-based Italian Consul General Raffaella Valentini to our Eden by the Beach.

The bountiful bash, catered by Via Maestra 42, also counted Mayor Randy Rowse, councilmember Oscar Gutierrez and Emanuele Amendola, director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles, and executives of UCSB’s Italian studies program among the 120 guests, including Fred Sidon, Jacopo Giacopuzzi, Lisa Woolf, Sara Firestone, and Costanza Leonardi.

A delightful repast…