Tom's cousin Charlene C. and her daughter Chandell are currently in Barolo, Piedmonte, Italy, visiting with cousin Giovanni and touring his grape vineyard. How exciting! To learn more, go to www.barolodibarolo.com, click on English, and then vineyards. You'll see Giovanni's name and there's a picture of him. Vince has found the Canonica Barolo wine online so we can order it. Charlene said in her email that it is difficult to purchase the wine in Barola and import it from Italy for herself, so we'll try ordering it online.
The beginning of the story:
Originally there were three Canonica brothers, Tom's grandfather Ferdinand who was a butcher in Italy and moved to Everett, Vittorio who became a shopkeeper in Snohomish (Vic's Market still exists), and the third brother (name unknown, possibly Giovanni) who stayed in Barolo making wine. Ferdinand was married to Patrina and they had lots of children including Charlene's dad Charlie and Tom's dad Angelo. Charlie was born in Barolo and Angelo, the youngest, was born in Ladysmith, BC, Canada. Ferdinand and Patrina came to the US via Canada, not Ellis Island.
The Canonica's also had other children, Virgie, Margaret (Margo), Clemmie and Babe. The boys were Vic, Charlie, Angelo and Tom in that order. Tom remembers as a kid visiting Aunt Virgie and Margaret's house in Garlic Gulch on Flora Avenue in Georgetown in South Seattle. He remembers going to the train station with his dad to bring home the zinfandel grapes that would come in on boxcars from California and they would make their own wine. Tom's best memory is the smell of the kitchen in Aunt Clemmy's house and how wonderful all the Italian food was.
This post will be a work in progress, and I'll add more as I get details from Tom and possibly from Larry and Charlene.
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Seems like you have to put www in front of that link for it to work.
Or click here.
http://www.barolodibarolo.com/inglese/index.asp
Nice write up in the Hearld today on the Italian Lodge Dinner. Have Fun!
I tried to fix it. I don't know how to do links yet. Guess I'd better try!
About the Herald writeup on the dinner, there are a couple items a bit incorrect. Only the sauce and the meatballs are handmade; the sausage is store-bought! We do use cans of sauce, paste, tomatoes to make the "gravy". And we have never made $100,000 in our lives!! Each year we give approx $1000 to charities and sell scholarship raffle tickets to fund our scholarships. Further, the fact that Denise Canonica is our hardworking, stressed-out HBIC was also left out! And the two pictured in the article make great monetary donations!!
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