Giovanna Voria
Ambassador of the Mediterranean Diet

Giovanna Voria is considered the ambassador of the Mediterranean diet, although she humbly likes to call herself a chef-farmer, the farm owner Corbella, in the Parco Nazionale del Cilento, in the province of Salerno, in the municipality of Cicerale. The farm is in a remote and opulent Mediterranean vegetation and surrounded by fertile hills of vines, olives, fruit trees and horticultural products, among woods of arbutus, myrtle and mastic, where food is produced, it is prepared and consumed. Giovanna Voria, soul Corbella, has preserved the values and tastes of the past but in a modern perspective . The interview becomes a tale of life: to be a successful businesswoman she hears the call of her country of origin, where you live a humble and happy life, and decides to open, against all odds, a farm to share the knowledge and traditional flavors handed down by grandmothers and by Mom. She not only follows the teachings of her family but also the ones about eating well of Ancel Keys. The American physiologist, father of the Mediterranean Diet, moved for about forty years in nearby Pioppi to lengthen his life, as he said himself, and eventually succeeding, of about twenty years. Also follows the teachings of his successor in Pioppi, the cardiologist Jeremia Stamler, who willingly has his guest and sings as a kitchen cook healthy. In his company produces organically chickpea black and white, slow food since 2010, the white fig of Cilento, extra virgin olive oil, wine, chestnuts and Mediterranean aromas; some of these strengths will then become jams, sauces, preserves, pickles, dried figs and syrup, fig bread and chickpeas. Its cuisine is a story of the Cilento customs, from Christmas to Christmas desserts pizzas, the Cilento pizza with sourdough, the “cicciata”, a typical dish of Corbella with legumes and cereals.