During the chat between the professor Marino Niola and the writer Maurizio De Giovanni, in one of the historical Naples’ café, the Great Gambrinus, we discovered many aspects of the writer’s personal life and many considerations about his world of food and wine’s vision, linked not only to Naples. As the main character we have the City with all of its contradictions and uniqueness and above all its open minded vision, which is opposed to the Cilento’s one, that is very dear to De Giovanni from an editorial point of view, because Cilento’s vision is more rigid. A city of Naples that creates nothing but improves everything, like De Giovanni himself said several times.

Interiew by: Marino Niola, Anna Astarita, Carmela Balzano, Nicola Angelino
Video by: Anna Astarita, Nicola Angelino
Video Editing by: Nicola Angelino
Document by: Anna Astarita
Subtitle ita/eng by: Anna Astarita, Carmela Balzano
Translation by: Carmela Balzano
MedEatResarch – Center of Social Research on the Mediterranean Diet of the University of Naples Suor Orsola Benincasa, head by Marino Niola and Elisabetta Moro
Realized: 04/04/2022
Maurizio De Giovanni

Maurizio De Giovanni

Date of birth: 31/03/1958
City: Napoli
Education: Graduate
Profession: Writer
Language: Italian, napolitean dialect

Video table of contents

00:00 Presentation of the interviewee and interview’s site
02:42 Coffee: a representative beverage of the city
03:38 Naples’ description , beauties, symbols and contraddictions
05:59 Naples: shares and contaminations
06:39 Naples and its relationship with food
09:55 Maurizio De Giovanni’s relationship with food
15:05 Maurizio De Giovanni’a food of memories
18:01 The Mediterranean Diet according to Maurizio De Giovanni
21:41 The conviviality from the point of view of his novels’ main characters
22:50 Naples’ strengths and weakness
31:40 Comparison between Naples and Cilento’s way of cooking
34:13 Maurizio De Giovanni’s relationship with the kitchen
35:48 Goodbyes

Geographic information

Country: IT
Region: Campania
Città: Napoli
Altitude: 17m s.l.m.

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