By LINDSAY CAREY STAFF WRITER Two Plainville mothers and restaurant owners visited the Plainville High School French-Italian club to teach the teens how to make homemade Italian orange butter sage ravioli on April 1. Sisters Tina Atunno and Rosa Rocco have been running two Italian restaurants with their brothers Sal Cialfi and Dino Cialfi for over 20 years now. “I feel like we’re on a cooking show I love it,” said Rocco as she put homemade ravioli dough through the pasta machine. PHS Italian teacher Maria Colangelo said she loves when Atunno and Rocco come to visit the club because it provides a hands on learning experience in Italian food and culture. “Our goal is to expose these young men and women to some facet of French or Italian culture,” said Colangelo. “April just happens to be Italian food month.” Colangelo meets with the approximately 20 kids in the French Italian club once a month, however, even students who do not belong to the club attended the afterschool activity. “Some of them have track and other obligations, but they told me they were going to tell their coaches they had a meeting so that they wouldn’t miss this,” said Colangelo. […]
By LINDSAY CAREY STAFF WRITER Two Plainville mothers and restaurant owners visited the Plainville High School French-Italian club to teach the teens how to make homemade Italian orange butter sage ravioli on April 1. Sisters Tina Atunno and Rosa Rocco have been running two Italian restaurants with their brothers Sal Cialfi and Dino Cialfi for over 20 years now. “I feel like we’re on a cooking show I love it,” said Rocco as she put homemade ravioli dough through the pasta machine. PHS Italian teacher Maria Colangelo said she loves when Atunno and Rocco come to visit the club because it provides a hands on learning experience in Italian food and culture. “Our goal is to expose these young men and women to some facet of French or Italian culture,” said Colangelo. “April just happens to be Italian food month.” Colangelo meets with the approximately 20 kids in the French Italian club once a month, however, even students who do not belong to the club attended the afterschool activity. “Some of them have track and other obligations, but they told me they were going to tell their coaches they had a meeting so that they wouldn’t miss this,” said Colangelo. […]