Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Find a unique gourmet Italian-themed holiday basket at La Gabri-Elle gift shop, owned by Grayslake resident and Italian language instructor Nancy Gabriele.
It can be a challenge to find an impressive gift to give at the holidays—be it for your boss, a party host or a fickle friend, but you can never go wrong with a festive basket of goodies, especially when it's filled with imported gourmet food items from Italy. "I have a passion for this," said Nancy Gabriele, a Grayslake resident who operates a secret little shop within her Italian language school in the lower level of the Tomei Insurance building in the Saratoga Square plaza, located at the southeast corner of Washington Street and Route 21 in Gurnee. If you've never heard of it, and chances are you haven't, La Gabri-Elle is a find, stocked with an assortment of Italian imported food items, kitchen wares, gifts and more. Italian-born …
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Monday, August 29, 2011
Grayslake resident Nancy Gabriele shares her love of Italy through Italian language classes, tours to Italy and a gift shop with imported products.
Nancy Gabriele of Grayslake, the unofficial ambassador to Italy, shares the language, culture and food of Italy through her business La Gabri-Elle Language School in Gurnee. And her audience is growing. Nancy Gabriele started teaching Italian, her first language, through her business, La Gabri-Elle Language School in Gurnee. But learning the language wasn't enough. Gabriele said her friends wanted to go to Italy but did not want to go alone because they were not familiar enough with traveling overseas or the language. So they suggested she organize a trip. So each year, Gabriele has planned a nine-day trip to Puglia, Italy in September. Among the sites, they go to Bari, where they stay within a trullo, a traditional Apulian dry-stone hut …
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Grayslake resident Nancy Gabriele shares her love of Italy through Italian language classes, tours to Italy and a gift shop with imported products.
Nancy Gabriele may be known as the unofficial ambassador to Italy. This Grayslake resident wants to share the language, culture and food of her birth place within the Chicago area, and her audience is growing. “Part of my mission is to bring something of Italy here to the United States,” she said. Gabriele was born in the Puglia region in Italy and only spoke Italian until she was 6 years old. Her parents emigrated to Montreal where she learned to speak English and French and went to university where she earned her degree in language. In addition to working for Alitalia Airlines in customer relations, she worked weekends teaching Italian language to children. After getting married to Tony, the couple moved to Grayslake 15 years ago. She …
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