YES! 18 years ago!
It is when I met Pete Snaith in Florence.
I was “officially” his instructor in cooking classes. T
The real fact is that
this amazing guy has a big passion for this job and with all what turns around
food as he was staying all day at the
institute where I was teaching. With the excuse of helping and learning, he was
in reality giving us several gifts.
He is one of the few persons I have met who
deeply understands the reality and the truth of FOOD.
These words may appear a
little strange and seem to have the presumption to teach philosophy. Actually
what FOOD does is to teach, to allow
people to talk with IT and understand millions of truths behind its production,
value, culture.
This is what Pete and I feel and share.
Some years later, Pete made so his life long friend Steve – better
known as Stefano – and I would meet.
It happened in Florence again, in the
central Piazza della Repubblica, in front of a cappuccino in the 277 years old
Gilli Bar. It was July 2012 and I had started my own cooking school three year before.
I met also
his lovely wife Kathy and other members of the family.
We all decided to go see
my brand new school, GiglioCooking.
At a certain point Stefano asked me:
- Has
this name anything to do with the Island of Giglio?”.
I do not know how many
times my face changed color.
Foreigners usually do not know this little jewel
of the Mediterranean and the fact that he was mentioned it appeared to me like
a sign.
The more we were talking the more the sign became bigger, as he told
that Giglio was the part of Italy he new better: his parents went there in
honey moon and he has been there several times.
Even more: he loves Giglio and
he thinks it is one of the most beautiful places on earth.
This was the famous
“drop” that took us to the decision to collaborate: we had the same vision on
more than one point.
Pete and Steve: THANK YOU for having come to Italy;
THANK YOU for having met me; THANK YOU for the wisdom you put at the service of
your knowledge.
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