Saturday: Reading Terminal Market gets in on the Italian Festival game

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Saturday: Reading Terminal Market gets in on the Italian Festival game

POSTED: Monday, April 19, 2010, 5:40 PM

Filed Under: Food Events

South Philly holds all the cards when it comes to Italian festivities, from the annual Italian Market Festival scheduled for May 15-16 (did we mention it's sponsored by Sorrento Cheese?!) to more neighborhood-y affairs like the St. Padre Pio Festival, held in September outside the Annunciation B.V.M. church at 10th and Dickinson. But now Reading Terminal Market has plans to yell "mangia!" with its first-ever Italian Festival, scheduled for this Saturday, April 24, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A bunch of RTM vendors will set up in Center Court to offer sample-size portions of well-loved dishes — Giunta's sausage scallopini, Termini's cannoli and prosciutto-wrapped melon from Iovine Brothers included. There'll also be wine tasting, strolling Italian troubadors and an aria performance from La Traviata courtesy of the Opera Company of Philadelphia. But will you see old Italian women dancing to a cover band rendition of Montell Jordan's "This Is How We Do It"? You're probably gonna have to head down to South Philly for that, kids.

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