La Scala opera house in Milan, Italy, although not the largest operatic theatre, can seat 3,600 people.
Neo-Classical in style, it is known for its good acoustics. It includes in its repertoire largely unknown works alongside
traditional favourites. Its museum holds a wide variety of archival material, particularly by Giuseppe Verdi. This image shows
the building after its façade had been refurbished by Mario Botto and was reopened in 2004.
ALAMEDA -- Caroline E. Kennedy was up late one night with her grandmother in Dixon talking about their family's rich Italian and Latino history when the
two women headed into the kitchen and started creating all kinds of noise and smells.
Half an hour later they had
produced a batch of traditional Italian salsa, also known as "chili" to the family, which has passed the
recipe down through the generations.
"I wanted to remember some recipes so they wouldn't get lost with
time," Kennedy said recently in her Alameda apartment.
The salsa has helped Kennedy not only keep her family's
mixed heritage alive, it has helped her economically. Her Crivelli Italian Salsa is headed for mainstream
grocery shelves in coming months and each jar will bear an image of Mary Magdalene, as painted by her
most famous ancestor -- the Italian Renaissance artist Carlo Crivelli.
"It's definitely been a
journey," says the 46-year-old, who has steadily built her business during the last 10 years. She hopes it will become a product
people all over the Bay Area will be able to enjoy.
The salsa is already a hit at the Lincoln Market in Alameda,
a neighborhood grocery store where owner Sunny Sahini said every customer who has tasted it has come back.
"I really
like her product," said Sahini, who described it as tasting very fresh and different than the larger salsa companies whose
products he carries.
Kennedy's Italian roots reach back to the 1400s, when
original works of Carlo Crivelli were first being hung in the Vatican.
Kennedy's
great-great grandfather, Vincent Crivelli, set sail for Mexico in the late 1800s to
start his family. His son, named after Carlos Crivelli, born and raised in Mexico, became an Italian
chef and was the creator of the family's salsa recipe.
The salsa was such an important part of her family's
heritage it "was served at every meal at Grandma's house," she said.
Kennedy was a graphic
artist for 12 years and has started several other small businesses, including designing renaissance clothing, all of
which she said have prepared her for her biggest step yet. When Kennedy was 32 and in her second marriage, she learned to
make the traditional salsa, which her friends encouraged her to keep
making.
After such a positive response from family and friends, she decided to make a more serious attempt
at legitimizing her business.
Kennedy said she'd never forget the moment when she found the painting she wanted to
use for the label.
"It was like angelic," she said of the famous Crivelli painting of Mary
Magdalene, which she incorporated into the design of the label on her salsa jar.
Using her on
the label brings this thing full circle not only for my great-grandfather's recipe but also for Carlo Crivelli."
Kennedy
hopes now, 500 years later, her product also may help raise awareness and help people appreciate the art of Crivelli, who has been overshadowed by many other Renaissance artists.
Everything comes to me in bits and pieces but its all coming together," she said, "It's been an interesting journey."
Interesting and certainly a journey just beginning.
"Chillis" redirects here. For the band, see Red Hot Chili Peppers. The
chili pepper, chile pepper or chilli pepper, or simply chili, chile or chilli, is the fruit of the plant Capsicum from the
nightshade family, Solanaceae. The name comes from Nahuatl via the Spanish word chile. These terms usually
refer to the smaller, hotter types of capsicum; the mild larger types are called bell pepper (simply pepper in Britain and
Ireland or capsicum in Australasia).
Chili peppersChili peppers and their various cultivars originate in the Americas;
they are now grown around the world because they are widely used as spices or vegetables in cuisine, and as medicine.
History Chili peppers have been a part of the human diet in the
Americas since about 7500 BC. They were domesticated there between 5200 and 3400 BC, one of the first cultivated crops in
the Americas. Chili peppers are thought to have been domesticated at least five times by prehistoric peoples in different
parts of South, Central and North America, from Peru in the south to Mexico in the north and parts of Colorado and New Mexico
(Ancient Pueblo Peoples).
Christopher Columbus was one of the first Europeans
to encounter them (in the Caribbean), and called them "peppers" because of their similarity in taste (though
not in appearance) with the Old World peppers of the Piper genus. Columbus was keen to prove (incorrectly)
that he had in fact opened a new direct nautical route to Asia, contrary to reality and the expert consensus of the time,
and it has been speculated that he was therefore inclined to denote these new substances "pepper" in order
to associate them with the known Asian spice[citation needed].
Diego Álvarez Chanca, a physician
on Columbus' second voyage to the West Indies in 1493, brought the first chili peppers to Spain,
and first wrote about their medicinal effects in 1494.
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Prostate Cancer Cells Killed by Capsicum By: Valerian
D.
According to a study published in the March 2006 issue of Cancer Research, capsicum helps halt prostrate cancer
spread. Capsaicin probably has a certain positive consequence, the study concluded. Most important seems to be blocking NF-kappa
Beta effect, a molecular mechanism that promotes cancer cell growth.
Capsicum it's a pepper and capsaicin is the ingredient
that makes them hot.
The study concluded that in prostate cancer cells whose growth is testosterone dependent, capsaicin
influenced more prostate cancer cells to freeze in a non-proliferative status, called G0/G1. The research team also found
that prostate cancer cells that are androgen independent reacted to capsaicin in a similar manner.
Based on team's
explanation, capsaicin lowers the amount of androgen receptor that the tumor cells produced, but did not obstruct normal movement
of androgen receptor into the nucleus of the cancer cells where the steroid receptor works to regulate androgen target genes
such as PSA (prostate specific antigen). The same source claims that capsaicin had a significant anti-proliferative action
on human prostate cancer cells in culture. It also significant slowed the development of prostate tumors created by those
human cell lines grown in mouse models.
In addition, capsaicin also was effective against leukemia, and might be effective
in slowing or preventing the growth of other cancers as well.
It may be possible that capsaicin to be extracted from
hot chillies and have it soon as a drug. However, people should take care not to increase the chillies intake as that has
been associated with stomach cancers
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