From Grazie:
Not only does the Ice Cream Diet exist, but it also works.
This dietary regimen, acclaimed as the best summer weight-loss diet, was devised by Pietro Migliaccio, a nutritionist and President of the Italian Society of Nutrition.
Obviously, despite its name, it doesn’t promise weight loss in exchange for binges of ice cream in front of the TV. However, it does allow for consuming one or two ice creams a day and still losing weight. Which isn’t bad at all.
I knew a Pete Migliaccio in Naples. He first started the Naples LIttle Theater in the early 70s. By the time I arrived in Naples and joined the group, he had withdrawn because he was head of the school teacher's union, Naples chapter, a Department of Defense school system.
When Pete's tour as the union president ended, I was leaving Naples. When I returned 10 years later, he was still there and it was he who approached me about re-starting the "NLT" theater company. Many things had changed, however. A major earthquake in the early 1980s had caused a lot of "local" damage that saw military families moving further away from the base. Further away meant more time on the road to and from the theater for rehearsals. And with that, bit parts and/or chorus only cast members simply would not show up. Logistics!!
Back to Pete: He was a native New Yorker who retired from the DODs school system in 1988. He went back to New York in June, was diagnosed with cancer and died within a month of the diagnosis. Not the same "Pietro" Migliaccio, obviously, but it was a common name for Italian-Americans and Italians alike.
