cinema italiano screening focaccia blues on april 15

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Screening of Focaccia Blues at Cinema Italiano

Friday, April 15, at 7 p.m.
Italian Club of Tampa in Ybor City
1731 East 7th Avenue

The film Focaccia Blues (2009), directed by Nico Cirasola, is the story of two bakers from Altamura (Apulia region) who put the local McDonald’s out of business by stealing away their customers, enticing them with the local version of fast food: delicious focaccia topped with goodies like fresh tomatoes, meats and cheeses. Altamura is well known for its doughy delicacies. Road signs welcome visitors to ‘‘The City of Bread’’ upon entering the city limits.

The film was awarded the distinction as Best Picture from the Association of Italian Film Critics. Based on a true story chronicled in a 2006 New York Times article "The Bread Is Famously Good, but It Killed McDonald’s," the tale of two bakers able to defeat a McDonald’s has become the stuff of legends.

Introduction and Q and A with USF Professor Patrizia La Trecchia.

Admission is free.

Espresso, dolci and popcorn will be available for purchase.

For more info, contact the Italian Club of Tampa at 813-248-3316 or email alice[at]italian-club.org.

stormy weather



Next door to my apartment complex.

 Wow.  Nothing will make you appreciate the convenience of modern technology more than a tornado skipping through your neighborhood and knocking your power out for one day and taking your wireless router down for several days.  Lots to catch up on, it seems.