Italy: A Culinary & Geographical Study in Diversity

Code: LF51017

Dates: October 18 - November 22, 2024

Meets: 12:30 PM to 1:45 PM

Sessions: 6

Location: Creutzburg Center 100

Course Fee: $110.00

There are still openings remaining at this time.

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With a respectful nod to the wonderful Stanley Tucci series Searching for Italy, explore in depth not only the culinary diversity of many of Italy's 20 regions -- each differing so greatly as to be truly unique -- but also their cultures, customs, typography, and dialects. All of this, despite Italy's area being only as large as the state of Arizona! You'll realize that Italy is even much more than its exquisite cuisine, art, history, and legendary sunshine!
Fee: $110.00
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Creutzburg Center 100

260 Gulph Creek Road
(in Harford Park)
Radnor, PA 19087
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Anthony Francis Russo

Anthony Russo, AB, German Language and Literature with Italian Minor, Villanova University, 1970; MA German Language and Literature, Villanova University, 1974 Hired as a teacher of German in 1970, I initiated an Italian curriculum within 3 years, and within 10 years, the program had grown to a full 4 year curriculum. Two full-time teachers of Italian were needed due to student number, about five years later. In 1996, hired again as a teacher of German for the Tredyffrin-Easttown School District in Chester County, I was asked to initiate an Italian curriculum once again at Conestoga High School, and this program grew to a full 4 year curriculum in four years, with 2 full-time teachers of Italian within 9 years. During my career, I have led 15 tours with students and adults, to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, but mostly to Italy. I led a tour of 35 students and adults to Italy and Sicily most recently. As leader of the group, and as lead teacher, I was required to deal with such diverse situations as rooming and other hotel issues, retail store negotiations which students were not able to handle, logistical issues of timing with the tour bus, the Metro in Rome, and the like. While touring with my students, I also had the unique privilege to sing in the Teatro di Ercolano (the ancient theater in Herculaneum) as a demonstration of the incredible acoustics which the ancient Romans developed over 2000 years ago. No microphone is necessary even today, to project the voice of the actor or singer to reach the hundreds in the audience. Almost thirty-nine years of classroom teaching in high school, adult night school, and several courses at the university level in not only Italian, but also in Cultural Diversity, have given me an excellent proficiency in written and spoken Italian, and virtually native fluency in speaking. Never having lived in Italy for any extended period of time, I have nonetheless more than held my own in both business and personal conversations with natives - even those using in part their local dialect - on various topics.

tonino613@gmail.com

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