Granai della Memoria

 Sight is absolutely the favourite sense of Mimmo Jodice, though he says “the exercise of seeing predisposes the taste and amplifies the food pleasure”. He remembers his youth in the ancient centre of Naples during the hard postwar period and some rituals linked to the household hearth such as the smell of coffee beans and the foods of the feasts. In his memory there are the vivid images of the hen sacrificed on the occasion of Sunday lunch, and those of the person who sacrifices Easter lamb in the neighbourhood of Sanità. Above all else, he regrets the periodicity of food of the past, but his madeleine still remains bread dressed in oil and salt, a very simple dish that he still eats for breakfast.