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1 L’OSSERVATORE LANCASTRIANO JANUARY 2019 Visit us at: www. lancaster-italian-cultural-society.org The Newsletter of the LICS 20 t h Anniversary in 2019 Lancaster Italian Cultural Society www. lancaster-italian-cultural-society.org Volume 21 Issue 1 January 2019 L’Osservatore Lancastriano number of more recent artists, too. The after paying costs of printing and President’s Message Buon Anno, miei Amici, dance floor got a workout, as some very mailing and paying out the prize talented couples enjoyed the chance to monies, the Society realized $2,002. 2019 is a very special year for LICS, show off their cha-chas and rumbas. These monies will be designated to as it’s our 20 th anniversary! Or, in support the Society’s education Italian, È il nostro ventesimo The afternoon also featured a lot of initiative and provide funds for an anniversario! giveaways. All attendees were eligible for a number of holiday themed door annual donation to promote the arts and It’s hard to believe 20 years have prizes donated by members. The fifty- local education programs. gone by. I was honored to be the first fifty raffle brought in $335, divided LICS president, and 20 years later, I am still honored to be part of LICS and between John & Darlene Caperelli , Italian-American Award celebrate 20 years of friendships, and the Society. The LICS portion was by Jay Butterfield experiences and love from our big awarded to Mom’s House, a local “LICS Italian Family”. community service organization providing support to young mothers I thank all of the LICS members, and families. officers, board members, committee chairs and members for all of their time, energy, and committment to make LICS such a success. Cordiali saluti, Rudy DeLaurentis A Merry Time For All by Janice Longer Members of LICS enjoyed a festive John & Dee Viscardi, Jay Butterfield start to the holiday season on December Dee Viscardi was awarded the LICS 9th at the Eden Resort. The party was 2018 Italian-American of the Year in a new room this year, beautifully award at our December holiday dinner. decorated, warm and inviting. Thank Dee was recognized by the award you to Ann Marie Petrone and her Anne Butterfield and Anita Bomberger committee for her service to LICS over committee for their efforts to make this The big giveaway, however, came several years. She has made great Christmas Party so enjoyable. with the drawing of the first fundraising efforts in bringing trips, activities, Members enjoyed bacon wrapped raffle. Nearly 500 tickets for a chance ladies luncheons and more to our scallops, cheese and veggies, chicken to win $1,000, $500 or $250 were sold membership. Through Dee, many picatta or eggplant rollatini and a by members during the months leading members were able to explore New dessert bar laden with cookies, pies, up to the Christmas party. Winners York City, travel abroad, enjoy regional cakes, fruit and chocolate sauce. were drawn during the party. Anne Italian cultural events, and share The entertainment was provided by Butterfield was the lucky winner of the fellowship with LICS members and Billy Logue and his son, Ryan. With $1,000, second and third prizes went to other Italian-Americans that they would the help of some cutting edge Mary Jean Liller and Anita Bomberger, not otherwise have experienced. Dee technology, they delivered a big band all members of the Society! Steve has made tireless efforts on behalf of sound with favorites by Dean Martin, Iovino, the LICS Vice-President who LICS, despite some personal challenges Frank Sinatra, Frankie Avalon and a doggedly took on the task of and setbacks, and the entire LICS coordinating this raffle, announced that membership is thankful for her service. 2 L’OSSERVATORE LANCASTRIANO JANUARY 2019 Visit us at: www.lancaster-italian-cultural-society.org Membership Report the Guinness Book of World Records cumbersome. It wasn’t at all suitable As of January 2019, we have 190 as the world’s most popular coffee for use at home, which was fine for a members/families. maker, and was for decades few decades because coffee had never commonplace to the point of ubiquity been a beverage consumed at home Welcome New Members! not only in Italy but in Cuba, Argentina, anyway. It was, as in the Arab world, a Elizabeth Conroy Australia, and the United States. It’s communal activity. (As a side note, the Dan and Sally Delgiorno also widely misunderstood and fact that it was a communal and William & Mary Jo Devorick maligned, with approval in the modern foreign-seeming ritual seems to have Thank you for joining our family! coffee world coming perhaps a bit too scared those in power in the Catholic late, in only the past few years. Get one world quite a bit at first; it took an Get Well Wishes to: while you can. official approval from Pope Clement VIII in 1600 to clear coffee’s dangerous Scott Bomberger and Terri Lombardo Italians began coming up with their own gadgets for brewing coffee in the connotations.) Coffee was too Our Condolences to: 19th century, but the biggest by far was expensive, and the newly popular Mandros Family on the passing of the idea of applying pressure to coffee Pavoni brewing devices unsuited, to be their mother, Athena Mandros, a good in order to create a strong, and more making coffee at home. friend to the Italian Community. importantly, fast drink. This is the age Legend has it that the idea for the Congratulations to: of steam, a miraculous source of power moka pot came from a laundry boiler, Tom and Pat La Barbera on celebrating that can unlock the world, and though though that’s not confirmed. What is their 50th Wedding Anniversary on it’s not entirely clear who originated the known is that there was also a November 10th. idea of using steam to brew coffee, precedent for a smaller coffee machine: certainly it was in Italy that it was the napoletana. The napoletana is a Bravo: popularized. The first known patent for small metal device with three sections: This March is LICS 20th Anniversary!! a machine we might now recognize as a chamber of water, a small puck of an espresso machine was registered by coffee in the middle, and a chamber on The Humble Brilliance of Italy’s Angelo Moriondo, who created a giant the other end for brewed coffee. Water Moka Coffee Pot complicated steam-driven machine in is heated up with the water chamber on In the era of pods, the iconic item has 1884, but who never bothered to the bottom, and then the entire device is become an endangered species. manufacture it. Luigi Bezzera, from flipped upside-down, allowing the hot Milan, modified the Moriondo patent, water to drip through the coffee beans and his design was further modified and gather as coffee in the previously (though less so than Bezzera’s) by empty chamber. No pressure is Desidiero Pavoni, whose La Pavoni involved. introduced the world to espresso in By: by Dan Nosowitz Dec. 07, 2018 1906, at a world’s fair held in Milan. Pavoni’s device was a large complex Candidates for LICS Board Needed metal contraption that worked, roughly, LICS needs your help! We are like this. A compartment of water on seeking LICS members who would Bialetti, the Italian maker of the moka the bottom of the device is heated by like to serve on the LICS Board of pot, a stovetop coffee machine and one placing the entire thing on a flame. A Directors from March 2019 through of the most iconic kitchen appliances tube leads up to a circular puck of February 2021. If you are interested ever created, announced recently that ground coffee; because the entire in being on the ballot for the March the company is in major trouble—tens device is sealed, as the water boils, Election meeting/picnic, please call of millions of Euros in debt, unpaid pressure forces steam and hot water up Rosemary LaFata (717-569-5200) or salaries and taxes, revenues that are through the tube and through the coffee David Ferruzza (717-569-6909) to way down and look to be staying that grounds. That pressure brews coffee express your willingness to serve, and way. In a press release, the company much more quickly than without the to learn the timetable for formalizing said there are “doubts over its pressure, and the fast-brewed, strong your intentions. continuity.” coffee flows into a chamber, to be Members interested in serving will The moka pot is a symbol of Italy: poured into cups. be asked to provide a written of postwar ingenuity and global This is, not coincidentally, the exact statement, which includes applicable culinary dominance. It is in the same way the moka pot works, though experience and some of their ideas on Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper- on a much smaller scale. how LICS can move successfully into Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Pavoni’s device was a huge hit, but it the future. and other temples to design. It is in was incredibly expensive and 3 L’OSSERVATORE LANCASTRIANO JANUARY 2019 Visit us at: www.lancaster-italian-cultural-society.org Upcoming Trips • Before leaving the park, be sure to Officers Sunday, March 17, 2019 - Resorts check out the Observation Tower. Casino in Atlantic City New Jersey Bring your camera along because President - Rudy DeLaurentis Phone: 717-392-0606 Departs 8:00 AM and returns this is the only spot you can take a approximately 8:30 PM. picture of all three waterfalls at Vice President - Steve Iovino once.