Food Network Films Italian Holiday Program at CSCA
 

The Cambridge School of Culinary Arts is pleased to announce that the Food Network will re-broadcast An Italian Christmas with Mario and Giada! Original filming for the show was on Wednesday, January 7, 2004. Roberta Dowling, CCP, and 12 students from her Italian cuisine class are featured on the show. Details of the filming follow. Air dates for 2007 are Tuesday, December 4 at 10:00pm; Wednesday, December 5 at 1:00am, Saturday, December 8 at 2:00pm, and Sunday, December 9 at 5:00pm.

On Wednesday, January 7, 2004, Food Network Celebrity Chefs Mario Batali ("Molto Mario" and "Ciao America") and Giada DeLaurentiis ("Everyday Italian") filmed a segment of an upcoming television program at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts. The one-hour-long program features Batali and DeLaurentiis seeking unique Italian food traditions during the holidays. The segment filmed at the CSCA showcased Roberta L. Dowling's one-of-a-kind ravioli creations and a half dozen antipasti dishes.
 

Kitchen "A" underwent a transformation to prepare for the filming. Garland, cans of food stuffs, and other holiday paraphernalia adorned the kitchen. Filming began with Mario, Giada, Roberta, and six students, in which Roberta demonstrated how to make pasta by hand. This segment covered pasta making, coloring pasta, pasta rolling, and pasta shaping. Each participant had the opportunity to make a ravioli, which included a variety of Christmas shapes, colors, and sizes. Raviolis were then stuffed with a lobster-mascarpone filling, cooked, and dressed with a truffle butter sauce.
 

A different set of six students then worked with Roberta and Giada to make the antipasti dishes, which included Peperoni alla Piemontese, Insalata di Cappone, Antipasti de Salumi, Grilled Calamari on a bed of shaved fennel, and Bruschetta.
 

The dinner scene was the last to be filmed. Lecture area "A" was decorated for Christmas and the table was set festively for 15. Mario, Giada, and Roberta dined with Roberta's 12 students, feasting on the raviolis and antipasti.