SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) – Our Lady of Mount Carmel hosted the 2025 annual Taste of Italy Festival on Saturday. Parishioners helped make and serve some of their favorite Italian dishes to help feed guests in what we are told is the church’s biggest fundraiser of the year.
Western Mass News spoke with Taste of Italy President Larry Pietrucci, who took over running the feast last year after his aunt had been doing so for 30 years.
He added that the event is a labor of love and shared his favorite parts with us, “the food, and the camaraderie. Everybody just sitting and talking and having fun. There’s so many memories, I mean I’ve been coming here since I was a kid. I went to school here when it was Mount Caramel School so this whole thing holds true to my heart here.”
If you missed out this year don’t worry, Larry added that next year’s Taste of Italy is already on the schedule for October 3rd.
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