I was born in Lombardy, near Lago Maggiore on the dividing line of the two regions, so it was quite common for my family to go across the lake to Piedmont for dinner, festivals or dances - we probably went over more than once a month.
We often get asked why we continue to head out to dinner, festivals, events, cinema, and events where large amounts of people are.
The Times found that the $372,000 spent on internships in 2008, for example, was dwarfed by the $3.9 million the caucus spent on its annual black-tie dinner festival and related galas.
GENERALLY speaking, special wine or beer tasting dinners and ethnic food festivals, (Russian Easter Dinner, Florentine Food Week, et al) are marketing ploys devised by restaurants to boost attendance; nothing wrong with that.
It is Camp Carp, not Carp Camp, and it serves one dinner during the festival, not fish dinners every night.
The writer noticed that Naipaul seemed uncomfortable discussing literary topics and he declined to join the writer for dinner after the festival.
At the festival dinner I found myself next to BSA chair Julia Goodfellow while incoming president Lisa Jardine took to the stage.
For an extra thrill, attend the festival dinner to hear the live announcement of the Scottish Crime Book of the Year.
Every year on the third Thursday in November, festivals, dinners and, of course, much drinking celebrate the arrival of the season's Beaujolais nouveau.
Ushpizin, (Aramaic: "visitors"), according to the Jewish Kabbalistic book the Sefer ha-zohar ("Book of Splendour"), seven ancient worthies who take turns visiting the homes of all pious Jews to share their dinner on the festival of Sukkoth.
That was the inventive solution, anyway, at the Chanel Tribeca Film Festival dinner at the Odeon, where the metal bars were draped with ivy and white roses to form a blossoming entranceway.
