Please join Fondzione Azzurra for an afternoon at Home with Lucrezia Borgia and Obikà Mozzarella Bar as we taste mozzarella, sip prosecco and hear a talk given by author Diane Ghirardo about how the first woman entrepreneur brought buffalo mozzarella to northern Italy in the early 1500s.
Sunday, April 3, 2011 3-5pm .
At the home of Dante and Marcella Spinotti.
Tickets $100 ($75 is tax-deductible).
Ticket price includes: A tasting of Prosecco, Mozzarella and other delicacies, a copy of Duchesses Water Buffaloes and Female Entrepreneurship in Renaissance Ferrara by Diane Ghirardo and a coupon for Obikà Restaurant.
Address provided upon receipt of reservation.
Diane Ghirardo will discuss how duchesses Eleonora d’Aragona and Lucrezia Borgia of Ferrara, during the 15th and 16th centuries, raised Mediterranean water buffaloes and produced mozzarella cheese, a product normally associated with Lazio and Campania. The author will discuss both the water buffaloes and production of mozzarella within the context of their personal activities, and in particular, the entrepreneurial activities of Lucrezia in her land reclamation projects in the duchy of Ferrara. Lucrezia can be considered the first female capitalist entrepreneur in Italy, perhaps even in Europe.
The Fondazione Azzurra advances the cause of human dignity and expression through the exchange of culture – from art to cuisine- between Italy and Southern California.
