Prince Thomas of Savoy Society

(This review applies to their Food Fair)
Flashback — it’s the Halloween storm of 2011. We had no power for ten days. What we DID have was a ton of great food to eat by flashlight, courtesy of the Prince Thomas of Savoy Society’s Italian Food Fair, which we had conveniently bought just a few days before the lights went out.
I’m not Italian, and I’m not a member of this Society, but for the last 4 or 5 years, we always research the date of this amazing Food Fair, write it on our calendar, and go and pick up high quality home-​made pasta, soup, sauce, casseroles, and baked goods.
As you walk into the room, your eyes will pop at the wall of food set up on folding tables along the right wall. It’s quite a sight to see all of that lasagna, parmigianas, pasta, chicken cutlets. They also have a teacup auction for restaurant gift cards and a drawing for some pretty hefty gift baskets.
We were there yesterday morning, a few minutes before they opened up at 11:00. The line was already queued up. We bought a nice container of Italian sausage soup, a pumpkin chili, meatballs in sauce, an eggplant parmigiana and a tray of Italian Zucchini as heavy as a bowling ball.
The society was founded in 1917 by fifty Italian immigrants that settled in Avon to work at Ensign Bickford, on the area’s tobacco farms, and in the building trades. They promote Italian culture and traditions, and are active in the community.
No one really knows where the society’s name came from –all of the founding members have passed on and the origin of the name has been lost to history.
What has not been lost is our opinion that this Food Fair is a real treat, something we look forward to every year.
Buono appetito !!