GIOVANNA VORIA Angelina Vassallo
The smell of memory
Angela Amendola was the wife and life partner of Angelo Vassallo, the mayor of Pollica (Salerno), a fisherman and the vice-president of Città Slow International, who was killed on the 5th September 2010 by the organized crime. Her words bring the Mediterranean diet back to the places, the bodies, the stories and the memories from where this life data-style, which Unesco declared human heritage, originated. This virtuous intertwining between human and nature made Cilento a place of the soul, an elective homeland for the ones who dream a best country. Angelo gave his life over for this dream. Angela, her son Antonio and her daughter Giuseppina keep his memory alive. Their wine shop and their restaurant “Il Rosso e Il Mare” in Acciaroli are the places where the food community becomes reality.
Video table of contents
- Childhood memories: the smell of the anchovies caught by dad
- All the ways to cook anchovies
- The traditional fishing with "menaica"
- The simplicity of Cilento cooking
- The eggplants stuffed with goat cheese
- A little bit of meat, a lot of legumes
- Food and the rhythm of nature
- How to preserve food without fridge
- The eggplant parmigiana with the flavor of the past
- The passion of Angelo Vassalo for the Mediterranean Diet
- The mayor who went to sea
- The "cacioricotta" made from the goat's milk of Angelina
- A cheese for each dish
- A diet based on homegrown products
- The lunch of memory: the baked bread
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Campania
City: Pollica
District: SA
Locality: Acciaroli
Altitude: 6m s.l.m.
Wikipedia: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acciaroli
Urls: Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, Comune di Napoli, Comune di Pollica
Attached images:
Angela Vassallo
Date of birth: 06-06-1957
Languages: Italiano
Document by: Marino Niola, Centro di Studi Sociali sulla Dieta Mediterranea dell'Università Suor Orsola Benincasa, Elisabetta Moro, Rossella Galletti, Marzia Mauriello
Video by: Mariaelena Assante, Roberta Campassi, Vitale Cerrone
Created: 04-07-2012
