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Rome pays tribute to American Art, with the exhibit: “Omaggio all’arte americana”, which was open Saturday March 26.

“Omaggio all’arte americana” will exhibit works by Rauschenberg, Andy Wharol, Jasper Johns, Mark Tobey and many other artists of Pop art. The exhibit will run through June 20.

- Art and food together -
An original exhibit, “Performance in Decline”, where artists display eatable art works, made of food, is taking place in Milan this week-end.
It is included in “Arte da mangiare mangiare Arte”, an art-gastronomical event which joins art and gastronomic culture together. For details click here

A Virtual Tour of Agrigento’s Valley of the Temples, will be presented on Friday March 31, at Italian Culture Institute in Washington D.C..

Valley of the Temples, is an archeological park located in Southern Sicily, including five Greek temples built in the 5th century BC. The temples, erected with local tufa in Doric style, were named after the Greek gods.
- The temple of Olympian Zeus was built to thank Zeus after the successful war of the Agrigentinians  against the Carthaginians in 480 BC.
- The temple of Dioscuri was dedicated to Leda and Zeus’s twins.

- The temple of Concorde, built in 430 BC, and then turned into a church in the 6th century, is the only temple still standing in its whole
- The temple of Hera Lacinia, was attributed to Juno, the goddess of marriage and birth.
- The temple of Heracles including the Tomb of Terone, is pyramid-shaped and was built to commemorate the soldiers died during the Second Punic War.

Valley of the Temples, located in the municipality of Agrigento, is one of the main tourist attractions in Sicily.

Italian-American Association of Monmouth County, New Jersey, will demand that Manalapan Deputy Mayor Michelle Roth resign for her husband’s offensive comment on Italians.

“Because I hate Italians”, was the remark made by Mr. Larry Roth at a public meeting on March 8.

Steve Cataneo, President of Italian-American Association of Monmouth County, said:

“Deputy Mayor Roth’s failure to denounce her husband’s remarks will just continue to erode the confidence of the public, divide the town further and (prompt) questions if her silence means she agrees with Mr. Roth’s biased remarks”

Deputy Mayor Michelle Roth continues to stand firm in her decision not to resign from her post, backed in her decision by party local leaders.

Monmouth County Democratic Chairman Victor Scudiery about the remark, said:
“They were clearly sarcastic remarks — not from any member of the governing body and not meant to be taken seriously — and are now being taken out of context.” (Source: Asbury Park Press)

A new diet not based on counting calories, but on cooking meals with daily flavor themes, is the subject of a new book, “The Flavor Point Diet”, by Dr. David Katz.
The remedy, according to Dr. David Katz, associate professor of public health at Yale, is to consume a healthy diet with nutritional variety, but unified by a daily flavor theme.

That means cooking meals with lemon flavor one day, with thyme the next, basil the day after, etc… Based on the science of “sensory-specific satiety”, a subtle repetition of the flavor du jour would help you reach satiety faster.

I am not sufficiently informed to enter into the subject ‘how effective such diet is’, but what I would emphasize is that the newspaper story reporting such news, frequently refers to Italian food and it looks like associating it with calories, weight etc…

From an excerpt:
“… for example, why each successive bite of pasta is less satisfying than the previous one. That’s why you don’t stop at pasta, but reach for the bruschetta as well, not to mention the salami and provolone. And when the cannoli and tiramisu are offered, it’s surprising how you can find room for those, too.”

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