OSDIA "Capitolo di Roma” #3002 MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

No. 3 - Year 1 SEPTEMBER 2020 IN THIS ISSUE Every month Caput Mundi offe r s y o u t h e m o s t interesting news in the field of -US relations.

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From the desk of Capitolo di A portrait of founder Vincenzo Sellaro is Roma Founder and President, going to be donated to OSDIA National HQs Carmelo Cutuli Read full article > page 7 The Italian Art Critic Paolo Battaglia la Terra Borgese, honorary member of the Order Sons and Daughters of Italy in America has made possible the donation of a portrait of the founder of the oldest and most consolidated organization in support of US citizens of italian descent.

A portrait of Dr. Vincenzo Washington HQs as a t o t h i s w o n d e r f u l Sellaro painted by the sign of deep friendship d e m o n s t r a t i o n o f Sicilian painter Sergio a n d g r a t i t u d e f r o m friendship and gratitude Potenzano with the Motherland to our fellow to the Italian-American criticism signed by the countrymen who have community. I want to Stefano Andreotti A r t C r i t i c P a o l o sacrificed to abandon thank in particular the A very special friend of United B a t t a g l i a L a Te r r a Italy, contributing to the painter Sergio Potenzano States, Stefano Andreotti B o r g e s e w i l l b e growth of the United a n d o u r h o n o r a r y joins us as honorary member permanently exhibited in States of America as a member Paolo Battaglia t h e Wa s h i n g t o n D C Nation. La Terra Borgese, who Read full article > page 2 National Headquarters of "I am very grateful that have made it possible". the Order Sons and our OSDIA ‘Capitolo di The work will then be Daughters of Italy in Roma’ – stated Carmelo t a k e n o v e r b y t h e America. Cutuli, founder and American international The work of Potenzano, a p re s i d e n t o f O S D I A courier UPS by its 100x90 cm canvas made ‘Capitolo di Roma’ #3002 partner Randazzo Srl, of acrylic, was donated, - the first territorial unit represented by CEO thanks to the interest of established outside the Salvo Randazzo, who Mr. Battaglia La Terra North American territory, will personally follow the Ale Gambini B o r g e s e , w h o a l s o in the 115 years since the various stages of the Mary Kovach intervies italian signed the critics, to the foundation of OSDIA, has delicate transport to its kitchen queen Ale Bambini O S D I A N a t i o n a l been able to contribute final destination. Read full article > page 3 #news Page 2

I diari segreti Stefano Andreotti was honored by OSDIA The secrets of Italy as reported in his diaries by Italian statist "Capitolo di Roma" as meritorious member Giulio Andreotti OSDIA “Capitolo di Roma” #3002 honored Stefano Andreotti as the second Meritorious Member. The certificate was consigned by the two founders of the Lodge: President, Carmelo Cutuli and Trustee Paolo Quattrocchi.

Giulio Andreotti was Prime Minister in the years of national solidarity, economic crisis and terrorism, culminating in the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro. In the following decade his political a c t i v i t y t o o k o n a d e c i s i v e international connotation, with the appointment as President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber and then, with the first Craxi government, as Foreign Minister. These unpublished diaries of his - From the left: Charter President of OSDIA Capitolo di Roma Lodge, Carmelo Cutuli, honorary member Mr. Stefano which began on August 6, 1979 and Andreotti and the Trustee, Paolo Quattrocchi. ended on July 22, 1989, when he assumed the leadership of his sixth Mr. Andreotti had long Mr. Andreotti gave his politician and statesman government - thus became the story from the inside not only of our career as a manager in a personal availability to who served as the 41st country at a crucial time, but also of m u l t i n a t i o n a l h i t e c h everyone from the USA in Prime Minister of Italy the from Carter to R e a g a n , o f t h e U S S R f ro m company, and worked search of details about a n d l e a d e r o f t h e Brezhnev to Gorbachev, of the hard to preserve and 50 years of italian history Christian Democracy Iranian revolution, of the eternal conflict in the Middle East, of the deepen the archives and to open his personal party; he was the sixth tormented construction of European diaries containing 50 archives and diaries. longest-serving Prime unity. years of life and work of Minister since the Italian At the same time, they tell the daily G i u l i o A n d r e o t t i ( 4 life of the man who dominated his father, the 41st Prime January 1919 – 6 May Unification. Italian political life for over half a Minister of Italy, Giulio century. "We believe" write the 2013) was an Italian curators Serena and Stefano Andreotti. Andreotti "that reading can help to better understand the figure of our Thanks to the patient father, purifying it from some work of Stefano Andreotti commonplaces". and sister Serena, it was Thanks to the patient work of Giulio Andreotti sons, Stefano and Serena recently published a - who also drew on other autograph b o o k t i t l e d " G i u l i o documents - the personalities and events of a decade come to life Andreotti - I diari segreti" through personal notations, sharp where the personalities judgments, memorable jokes of spirit. As Andrea Riccardi notes in and events of a decade his introduction, these diaries reveal come to life through the "secret" of Andreotti's political action: "an immense weave of personal notations, sharp relationships in Italian politics, in the judgments, memorable Church and on the international scenario... For this reason the diary jokes of spirit drafted by is an original contribution to history their father during the and an exciting text that closely shows the life and commitment of a l a s t d e c a d e o f h i s protagonist of those years". political service. #interviews Page 3 Italian Kitchen Royalty: The Granddaughter of a Queen. Mary Kovach interviews Ale Gambini Miami University Associate Professor Mary Kovach interviews Ale Gambini Los Angeles-based chef who was born and raised in northern Italy.

Kovach: How does cuisine differ between the United States and Italy? Gambini: Italian food and Italian- A m e r i c a n f o o d h a v e s o m e similarities, yet they also many differences. Italian-American cuisine is mostly influenced by the Italian immigrants’ traditions that originated in the beginning of the 19th century. The majority of these immigrants came from southern Italy and Sicily. The Italian cuisine itself is made of simple recipes with quality ingredients. Kovach: You have a great YouTube channel – A Queen in the Kitchen. Who is the queen in which you named your channel after and how has she impacted Alessandra (Ale) Gambini is a Los and American cultures, raising her your life? Angeles-based chef who was beautiful young daughter to speak Gambini: The queen that I refer to born and raised in northern Italy. both Italian and English fluently. is my grandmother, Nonna She is an entrepreneur who built In this interview, Gambini shares Fernanda. She was my mentor her own multi-media platform: a the nature of Italian cuisine, her both in life and in the kitchen. cookbook, YouTube channel, web inspiration for cooking, her Everything I know about food is series, and blog. She’s brought passion for buying local, and because of her and her influence. t h e t r u e I t a l i a n d i s c u s s e s h e r Kovach: Your YouTube recipes are c u i s i n e t o t h e hidden talents. United States and The queen that I refer to is easy to make and your dishes Kovach: You hold burst with flavor. How do you kindly shares the my grandmother, Nonna secrets bestowed cooking classes come up with your recipes? Fernanda. She was my a n d t e a c h upon her by her Gambini: Some of the recipes specifically how to g r a n d m o t h e r t o mentor both in life and in belong to the Italian cuisine, the cook like an Italian. s h a r e w i t h t h e the kitchen. Everything I ones I grew up with and I enjoyed What does that world. Gambini is a know about food is my whole life. Other recipes are a mean – “cook like humble woman with combination of the traditional, because of her and her an Italian?” a generous appetite influence. with a twist of my own influence. to convey her love Gambini: When I Keep in mind that Italian cuisine is of authentic Italian say “like an Italian,” all about simplicity and the best food. Her easy-going nature and I refer to Italians born, raised, and quality ingredients. Once you’ve enjoyable spirit make her recipes living in Italy. I was born and mastered the traditional dishes, fun to try. While her go-to raised in beautiful Milano and you can add your very own touch. i n g r e d i e n t i s P a r m i g i a n o spent the majority of my life in Kovach: In collaboration with “I Reggiano, she experiments with a Italy! Italy is where I learned how Love Italian Food” and the variety of robust flavors in many to cook by spending hours and European Union, you created traditional Italian dishes. She has hours in my Nonna’s kitchen. I “Fresh Up Your Life!” a web series a love and respect for both Italian have very fond memories there. #italianamericans Page 4 that you made to make people aware of healthier food options. What inspired you to do this? Gambini: I’ve been collaborating with “I Love Italian Food” for many years. When they offered me the opportunity to collaborate on a project that promoted the extraordinary Italian fruits and veggies, I immediately said yes! I came up with some very simple, healthy, and delicious recipes that everyone can cook at home and in no time. Kovach: What inspired you to write your own cookbook? Gambini: Once again, my Nonna was my inspiration. When I moved to L.A. over a decade ago, I missed my family so much, and food was what always made me feel closer to them. My very first cookbook, “A Queen in the Kitchen,” is a collection of northern Italian cuisine recipes, mostly from my hometown of Milano. Kovach: W h y d o y o u fi n d i t advantageous to buy local foods? Gambini: I’m a huge fan of the Slow Food movement that promotes local Kovach: On your “OSDIA Interviews LIVE: food always played a huge role in my life. food and traditional cooking. Slow Facebook interview, you said that your I don’t know if I have any other talent but I Food was founded in Italy, by Carlo favorite dessert is tiramisu. However, you hope being a good mother to our Petrini in the 1980s and has spread change up the traditional dessert quite a daughter and fur-mom to our two cats is worldwide since them. The idea of bit into different variations. What made more than enough! Slow Food, is that it is you decide to enhance You can learn to cook with Gambini in a an alternative to fast this otherwise traditional v a r i e t y o f p l a c e s – I n s t a g r a m food. It encourages dish and what flavors do (instagram.com/alegambinidt), Facebook natural foods from local Tiramisú is my favorite you now prefer? (facebook.com/aqueeninthekitchen), or m a r k e t s t o h e l p Italian dessert and once Gambini: Tiramisú is my on her website (aqueeninthekitchen.com). preserve the traditions favorite Italian dessert you have mastered the Buon appetito! of that area. a n d o n c e y o u h a v e traditional recipe, you mastered the traditional Kovach: I s t h e r e a Mary Kovach B.A., M.B.A., Ph.d re c i p e , y o u c a n t r y particular region of Italy can try different versions. Miami University Associate Professor diffe re n t v e r s i o n s . I where you love the food I developed the rose d e v e l o p e d t h e ro s e above all others? Where infused assam tea i n f u s e d a s s a m t e a it, and what is it that you tiramisu, and it’s just love? tiramisu, delicious. I’m flattered to Gambini: Each and every say that with the picture I t a l i a n r e g i o n h a s of this dessert, I recently outstanding food. Personally, I love the won a “Taste Award” in the food Emilia Romagna region, where the photography category! (Photo below. majority of the PDO products (protected Kovach: You and your husband grew up designation of origin) come from: in northern Italy and were musicians Parmigiano Reggiano, Prosciutto di before you came to the U.S. You are so Parma, Mortadella Bologna, Traditional successful with all of your endeavors, Balsamic Vinegar of Moden, to name a what other hidden talents do you have? few. I’m an egg pasta lover and what’s better that a plate of Tagliatelle col Ragù Gambini: Thank you so much for saying alla Bolognese? that. Music was my first love and good #publicdiplomacy Page 5

Vice President of Sicilian Regional Government NIAF Welcomes receives a presentation of Sellaro’s Portrait New Board The Art Critic Paolo Battaglia La Terra Borgese, together with the author and the representative for Members Sicily of the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy (Amcham) Pietro Viola, were received by the Vice President of the Sicilian Region Gaetano Armao.

The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) is proud to announce the following have been nominated and elected to serve on the NIAF Board of Directors: Janet Cafaro, Philanthropist; Joseph V. Del Raso, Esq., Partner, Troutman Pepper; Daniel M. DiLella, President and CEO, Equus Partners, Ltd.; Joseph Gulino, Esq., Assistant Managing Partner, DRRT; Frank J. Mattei, Tax Partner, KPMG LLP; Frank D. From the left: the representative for Sicily of the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy (Amcham) Pietro Viola, Morogiello, Lead Partner, Caldwell painter Sergio Potenzano, Vice President and Councillor of Economy of the Sicilian Regional Government, Gaetano Partners; Dino Petrongolo, Owner, AP Armao and Art Critic Paolo Battaglia La Terra Borgese. Construction; Vittorio Puppo, President and CEO, Bracco Diagnostics Inc.; The intervention of the Art duty to bring from his land, international courier UPS by its C a r l S c h r a m m , P h . D . , A u t h o r, Critic Paolo Battaglia la Terra Sicily, a corresponding tribute p a r t n e r R a n d a z z o S r l , Economist and Professor; and Kraig Borgese, honorary member of to such an important figure in represented by CEO Salvo Siracuse, Senior VP, Washington the Order Sons and Daughters the history of our compatriots Randazzo, who will personally Operations, Bell Helicopters. of Italy in America, made on the other side of the follow the various stages of the Inaugurated in April 2020, the newest possible the donation of a Atlantic". delicate transport to its final members of the NIAF Board of portrait of the founder of the destination. Directors will serve a minimum four- The work will then be taken year term from 2020 to 2024. oldest and most consolidated o v e r b y t h e A m e r i c a n organization in support of In addition, George Simeone, Deloitte Italian Americans. & Touche LLP, was appointed to the NIAF Board of Officers as the The Art Critic, together with the Foundation’s Treasurer; and Maria author and the representative Bartiromo, Anchor, FOX for Sicily of the American Network, is now a Board Officer Chamber of Commerce in Italy serving in the position of At-Large (Amcham) Pietro Viola, were Member of the Executive Committee. received by the Vice President NIAF serves as the country’s premier of the Sicilian Region Gaetano I t a l i a n A m e r i c a n o rg a n i z a t i o n Armao. During the meeting, the comprising men and women leaders from business, government, industry Art Critic Paolo Battaglia La and science. The Foundation’s mission Terra Borgese presented the is to honor our heritage as we w o r k , b e f o r e t h e fi n a l empower the next generation of Italian expedition to the United American leaders. NIAF awards States. significant grants and scholarships to outstanding young Italian Americans "It is a great joy for me to have annually. We support Italian language contributed - said Art Critic studies and Italian American clubs on Paolo Battaglia La Terra college campuses across the country. Borgese - to make this gesture Through NIAF’s Voyage of Discovery program, we make it possible for Italian of friendship between the American students to connect to their Italian-American community heritage and roots in Italy. NIAF also and Motherland possible. The advocates for the Italian American founder of OSDIA, Sellaro, is community on Capitol Hill; and serves remembered in New York with as a bridge for strengthening the a s t a t u e p l a c e d i n t h e governmental, economic and cultural ties between the United States and From the left: t Vice President and Councillor of Economy of the Sicilian neighborhood where he lived Italy. and worked. I felt it was my Regional Government, Gaetano Armao and Art Critic Paolo Battaglia La Terra Borgese. #Italian food and traditions Page 6 From the desire to eat healthy and from a great love for Sicily land, the brand "Radici Rosse” is born Sicilian entrepreneur Francesco Trovato launched a line of natural jams made with sicilian fruits like peaches, cherries, strawberries, apricots, oranges, figs, black mulberries and Etna apples enjoy the true taste of Sicilian fruit. In addition to the classic flavors, peach, cherry, strawberry, apricot we have, the details, orange, figs, black mulberries and, the special ones, Etna apples (cola ice cream variety), clementines and last taste created a few months ago pink grapefruit, all in jars of 50 gr., 240 gr, and 1 kg. Radici Rosse also created the organic pistachio cream, gluten- free, without palm oil, without hydrogenated fats, suitable for vegans and gluten-free. From the desire to eat healthy Without pectin, without OGM, F o r f u r t h e r i n f o v i s i t and from love for our land, the without dyes, without aromas www.radicirosse.com brand "Radici Rosse” is born. and without preservatives to A young brand created by Sicilians people where all the goodness and richness of the rooted fruit in the territory is kept in a jar. The name is dedicated to the land of Sicily, to the love of this volcanic territory, full of wonders and extraordinary nature. It is from this sunny island and from the fertility of its lands that comes from the fruit used in radici rosse’s organic and natural jams. Sicily has always been the cradle of peoples, h i s t o r y , t r a d i t i o n s o f contamination of culinary cultures that have enriched Sicilian gastronomic heritage, making it unique in the world. Radici Rosse want to let everyone know the generosity of this earth that is expressed with a thousand flavors and share with your table that refined taste of the exclusive of the typical things done well and with love. the opportunity to know him personally because we were born a hundred years after him. Our imagination, however, allows us to understand his p e r s o n a l i t y, h i s w a y o f approaching people, and a b o v e a l l h i s e x t r e m e dedication and determination to change the reality of his AMICI PER SEMPRE Italian brothers, guests of a foreign land, making it less exact, a not far from that From the desk of OSDIA hard and suffering. Polizzi Generosa that at the Capitolo di Roma founder There is the whole world of end of the nineteenth century and President Carmelo the first Italians in America in gave birth to our founder. Cutuli this painting that the artist Personally, I am very pleased Sergio Potenzano, thanks to to have been able to ensure Through ages the need has the efforts of our Honorary that this initiative of friendship been felt to define the Member, the Art Critic Paolo b e t w e e n o u r A m e r i c a n portrait and to close in a Battaglia La Terra Borgese, brethren and their motherland conceptual formula the wanted to donate to the was made possible, and for c o n t r i b u t i o n t h a t a W a s h i n g t o n N a t i o n a l this I would like to thank all personality has given to Headquarters of our Order. those who, on both shores of civilization. In the ephemeral They are both Sicilian like the Atlantic, have worked hard moment the memory of a Sellaro, from Palermo to be to bring it to completion. person is forever fixed becoming immortal. The portrait is one of the most widespread and significant w a y s o f s c u l p t u r e a n d painting. Its importance in the history of art is given by the developments that it had through the ages according to the different way of conceiving it. Today we do not have many portraits of our founder Dr. Vincenzo Sellaro, whose life and works we remember, but unfortunately we have not had

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