Aniello Conte is a cook, farmer and especially grandfather born in Ischia in 1947. He dedicated his life to the world of catering, working in several hotels for about...
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The interview retraces the memories of mrs. Immacolata Avitabile and her family who guide us on a journey through the most intimate traditions of the people of the...
The video tells the memories of Chef Ugo D’orso, born in Naples in 1945, immediately after the war. The chef tells of a traumatic experience that led him, first to move...
The topics covered in the interview concern the history of Antonio Pellegrino and the Social Cooperative “Terre di Resilienza”. Crossing old traditions and establishing...
The interview is an excursion into the Kristine Aasheim’s memories. A thoughtful prose that reflects on different gastronomic cultures showing the inevitabile cultural...
Gerardo Candela e Pasquale Pisano
Myths of origin and the variants of a tradition
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Pasquale Pisano and Gerardo Candela tell the possible origins of the priest’s typical chestnut. The most probable hypotheses are a casual discovery of some monks...
Gerardo Candela re-proposes the classic appeal for the sale of the priest’s chestnut to pilgrims . Interview by: Rossella Galletti and Antonio Puzzi Video by:...
Carla Sicignano
The chestnut of Partenio and the Madonna of Montevergine: songs, dance, rituals and divinatory gestures
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Carla Sicignano is a daughter of the juta of Montevergine, born from the meeting of two exponents of the world of popular and cultured song and music from Campania. They...
Gerarda Spagnuolo Spagnuolo illustrates the activity of ‘nzerta, a particular technique of threading chestnuts and hazelnuts that she learned from childhood...
A journey into memories of Don Carlo Pinto’s descendents and his restaurant “La Casina Rossa”, an important place for Vesuvius cuisine of the 50s and 60s, from Don...