Oreste Monaco, Italian photographer and art director, will capture stories of Italian people settled in Italian places.
An intrusion into A-typical places, of A-typical people.
Crescenzo with his cooking brings us back to the flavors of home, but more than the flavors, to the feelings of home. Food is much more than a series of ingredients meticulously prepared together to bring flavors to life: it is an act of love.
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“The sacredness of food”, is what we brought to the stage inside this abandoned church in the province of Naples, Crescenzo’s hometown. The altar becomes a kitchen, the food, though raw brings back life to the stone, which, dusty for so long, had lost its warmth. No fire is seen, we see nothing for cooking outside of a knife, a knife custom-made for Crescenzo by a craftsman. And although there is no fire, we can almost feel the heat; the soul is flame, it is heat, it is life, like food.