{"id":457,"date":"2019-11-05T15:13:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T15:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneandietvm.com\/en\/?p=457"},"modified":"2021-06-01T17:00:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T17:00:54","slug":"pia-paolillo-memories-of-a-life-between-working-in-the-fields-and-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneandietvm.com\/en\/pia-paolillo-memories-of-a-life-between-working-in-the-fields-and-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Pia Paolillo <br>Memories of a life between working in the fields and teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pia Paolillo - Le memorie di una vita tra i campi e l\u2019insegnamento\" width=\"1104\" height=\"621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zf_scEti6bc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in San Mauro Cilento, a\nretired kindergarden teacher, Pia Paolillo, at 91, works with her own hands the\ngarden where she &#8220;cultivates fruits and vegetables \u201cin a disorganized way\u201d\nand then eats every day. She uses her own olive oil on tomatoes at night for\ndinner. The oil from her own garden for Pia is special, she also uses it for\nfrying, in spite of sunflower oil or peanut oil commonly used for frying: in her\nopinion they have no flavor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until she was 35, when she\nstarted teaching, she worked the land with the sisters. At the time, her days\nwere timed by the alarm clock at dawn, especially at harvest time when you had\nto be in the fields at 5:00 am, breakfast was at 10:00, a tomato salad and\nhomemade bread, and work started again at 15:00.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When she was young, she was\nforced to eat what nature offered, there wasn\u2019t the variety of artificial fruit\nand vegetables that is found in today&#8217;s supermarkets. Meat, for Pia and her\nfamily, was the food of the holidays such as Easter, they ate it only once or\ntwice a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her madeleine is the &#8216;\u201dantipasto\u201d,\nprepared by her mother as a child on the day dedicated to the feast of Our\nLady, the first Sunday after Easter, where all the relatives gathered: a piece\nof boiled meat cut into small pieces very thin and flavored with grated goat cheese\nand beaten eggs, all mixed with broth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<font size=\"2px\">Interview by: Rossella Galletti\n<br>Video by: Rossella Galletti and Antonio Puzzi\n<br>Editing by: Annalisa Rascato\n<br>Subtitles by: Antonio Puzzi\n<br>Document by: Rossella Galletti \n<br>Translate by: Francesca Magnani and Rossella Galletti\n<br>MedEatResarch &#8211; Center of Social Research on the Mediterranean Diet of the University of Naples Suor Orsola Benincasa, head by Marino Niola and Elisabetta Moro\n<br>Created: 12-07-2019\n<\/font>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in San Mauro Cilento, a retired kindergarden teacher, Pia Paolillo, at 91, works with her own hands the garden where she &#8220;cultivates fruits and vegetables \u201cin a disorganized way\u201d and then eats every day. She uses her own olive oil on tomatoes at night for dinner. 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