Born and raised in Lagonegro, a little village in the South of Italy, Chef Luigi came to America by chance and settled in Washington, D.C. at a time when the city was hardly an exciting place to work for a restaurateur. “When I saw what this city’s restaurants were offering, I realized there was so much more I could do,” Luigi tells us. And as a matter of fact, he did!
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We spoke with the cultural attaché to the Italian Embassy in Washington, DC, Renato Miracco, about the embassy’s role in the cultural promotion of Italy in the United States. Our conversation revealed a highly complex and long-term strategy for establishing a stable presence in the cultural landscape of America.
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The diplomat succeeds Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata, who left the office after being appointed Italy’s Foreign Affairs Minister on November 17, 2011