Delia Morinelli
The cook of the Mediterranean diet

Delia Morinelli, the old housekeeper of Ancel and Margaret Keys, grants an interview full of memories about recipes and culinary tradition. Delia worked at Keys home for many years and contributed to the achievement of the objective of Professor Keys: to know the elixir of long life through the typical dishes of Campania. During the interview, Delia describes all the dishes that Ancel and Margaret learned from her, she remembers their interest for Cilento’s traditions and reveals the skill of Mrs. Keys in the kitchen. Delia tells the authenticity of food that Keys favored, recipes that they worshiped and reveals that the Professor ate every evening two dried figs. Pasta, fish, little meat, a spoon of olive oil per day and lots of vegetables and legumes: this is the secret of longevity handed down by Ancel and Margaret Keys, her employers but mostly “masters of life”.