California News - October 21, 2008

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California News - October 21, 2008
Executive chef Maurizio Mazzon, left, watches as an expressive Father Philip Smith performs a Oven Blessing in Italian at the new Canaletto Ristorante Veneto at Fashion Island in Newport Beach...ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: ovenblessing - 11/12/08 - Photo by Leonard Ortiz, The Orange County Register - From Press Release: The new Canaletto Ristorante Veneto at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, will hold a private Oven Blessing ceremony before the restaurant’s first loaf of bread is baked. The ceremony will be performed in Italian by Father Philip Smith of St. John the Baptist church in Costa Mesa and is a tradition started centuries ago in Italian villages. Residents would have their newly constructed outdoor oven, or forno, blessed before the first loaf of bread was baked