AGP Executive Report
Last update: 16 hours agoItalian Food Culture & Events: Lodi’s Festa Italiana! returns June 7 for its 13th year at the Lodi Grape Festival Grounds, bringing live music, pizza demos, cooking shows, plus wine and olive oil tastings. Hospitality & Dining Concepts: A Northern Italian-style restaurant in Lutz, Florida is leaning on 400-year-old Piedmont recipes and interactive tableside dining to build community around scratch-made pasta and wood-fired pizza. Wine Business Moves: Hope Family Wines appoints Matt Dusi as VP of business operations, bringing 25 years in finance and deep family ties to Northern Italy and Paso Robles vineyards. Food Safety & Consumer Guidance: Tunisia’s watermelon scare after a family tragedy is being reframed: authorities ruled out watermelon as the cause, but hygiene and safe handling of cut fruit are still the key summer message. Sustainability & Consumer Tools: Italy’s Junker app is using user searches to show which waste items Italians struggle to sort, including “dirty pizza boxes” and used clothes, and helps people find correct disposal points via barcode and symbol scans.
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