In the last few years, we’ve frequently been asked to organize market-style welcome dinners. In everybody’s mind, Italy is still the country of village festivities, small market places, offering well-arranged piles of fruit and vegetables where colors, smells and sounds create a cheerful atmosphere.
In fact, if you have visited southern Italy, you will confirm how much street food is part of our culinary culture: from the folded pizza sold in the alleys of Naples to the chickpea “panelle” in Palermo, and the “cuoppo”, the fried dough dumplings. The alleys of these cities exude true hospitality made of simple flavors and a cuisine that brings us back in time, away from modern complications.
We are increasingly asked to recreate this ambience for welcome nights and we are truly happy to oblige.
Through the years, we’ve organized several wedding welcome parties Italy style; in this one in particular, we created a movie setting with a “Pizzeria d’Amore”, a small band playing classical Italian songs from the 1960s and 70s and everybody dancing like in the typical village summer festivals.