Calling all fans of Italian culture and cuisine! The Hoboken Museum is pleased to host a Zoom talk by an expert in all things Italian, Carla Gambescia, on Sunday, April 11, at 4 pm, “Mangiare: Cultural History for Foodies.” 

Carla will host an interactive and entertaining “salon” exploring Italy’s culinary heritage from antiquity to the present day. Through an engaging Q&A, participants will test their knowledge while discovering surprising little-known facts and backstories of some of Italian cuisine’s most iconic ingredients and dishes.

The event is Sunday, April 11 at 4 pm, and will be live-streamed on YouTube/Facebook/Twitter, with an option for up to 12 people together in the Museum, with masks and social distancing required. The talk is free for Hoboken Museum members (and students), and donations are welcomed.

To participate in the Q&A, tune in to the Zoom directly by clicking here.

Carla Gambescia’s passion for Italy began early – with her mother’s love of the Renaissance masters and her father’s discourses on Italian geniuses of every calling. In the ensuing decades she has toured every region of Italy (often by bicycle) and immersed herself in its astonishing array of cultural treasures. In recent years, Carla has combined her passion as an Italophile with her skills as a career marketer and branding expert, acting as a consultant to and a collaborator with boutique tour operators. She conceived and co-led the Giro del Gelato bicycle tour, winner of Outside Magazine’s “Best Trip in Western Europe.” In 2008 Carla founded Via Vanti! Restaurant & Gelateria, in Mount Kisco, New York, with the ambition of creating a unique environment and dining experience which would enable guests to feel as though they had stepped right into Italy. Via Vanti! quickly won plaudits not just for its innovative Italian cuisine, extraordinary gelato (named “Best Gelato Shop in New York”) and dazzling jewel box interior but also, under Carla’s direction, for its active program of culinary and cultural events. It is Carla’s conviction that all of us, regardless of our inherited ethnicities, share an “inner Italian” – that part of our nature which is most expressive, festive, spontaneous and fun – just waiting to be unlocked.