Marilyn Monroe, symbol of beauty and femininity used to say: “The night I dress with two drops of Chanel No. 5”. Well, we're both blondes and female, but I love the night by far dressed with olive oil and Bergamot. That said, far be it from me to compare myself to this timeless icon of cinema. I just wanted to follow on from this his way of saying to tell you the way I greet the day and night to accompany me.

For years, I now use the extra virgin olive oil to keep the skin soft and supple. I learned how to do it thanks to a doctor who advised me during my pregnancy. I was very young and inexperienced. When I asked him what I could use to avoid the formation of fissures decided he told me: “Cynthia, nothing creams, only use a good olive oil smearing on the skin daily."I have no fissures, maybe I was not prepared, or perhaps simply the many beneficial properties of olive oil and the consistency in using it have prevented the.

Lately I have discovered a truly special, Oil EVO with Bergamot that dear friend Alessandra Paolini produces in its Farm Doria, in the province of Cosenza. An oil scents very special.

Did you know that Calabria boasts a growing Bergamot from the mid- 1700? Just so, but not only because the world is also the largest producer of this citrus DOP 2001, whose essential oils are used in the production of perfumes.

A perfect blend for healthy skin used since ancient times. The olive oil in fact, due to its content of Vitamins E, Vitamin-A, beta-carotene and other beneficial substances, fights free radicals slowing the aging of tissues. In addition it is a natural product of our agriculture that makes great Italy in World, better than that! 😉

Nature cure!

Windbreak Cipressino in the land of Doria – Photo by Alessandra Paolini

I love the wisteria and its color. As a teenager I spent many years in a place where there was a hedge of these flowers infinite. I remember that I walked and walked and ate the pistils .... Well, a few nights ago my way home I saw a cloud of pink clusters of wisteria. Suddenly I locked the car, as is now often the case when something catches my eye. I do not want to miss anything, no more. It’ so I dipped my nose and I started to suck. A delicate but intense, that remains in the memory, as it happened to me.

I could not help but photograph them and write them on the spot my feelings. It’ now this uncontrollable urge to stop the memories and emotions. Images, if shared, in turn give rise to thoughts and emotions in people. You know what came from my sharing this? Poetry dell'amica Alessandra Paolini, una donna che produce olio extra vergine di oliva in Calabria, and pancakes that I have prepared my chef friend Simone Toninato. One, because in addition to smell and admire the clusters of wisteria, I made a small bloomed theft. 😉

In fact the flowers over to view it satisfy the palate through many preparations. Laura Rangoni, wine and food writer and cook in the first place, suggests the use of the petals of the magnolia and acacia. Marina Betto, writer, sommelier, and passionate about plants and flowers (has written a book on gardening on the terrace), adds that the flowers are edible but many must be grown without pesticides (chemicals used against pests). La marmellata di rose, candied violets, ice cream with jasmine, i nasturzi in insalata… very particular flavors to which we are not accustomed, but to try!

Have you ever tasted the happiness?

climbs,
voracious, along the lattice
and filled with wisteria
l’occaso

is fragrant,
crisp,
ed elegant

is abundant
lungo le nudità
of gnarled
who have crossed
storms and sterility

see String troppo
the heart of the chains
and covers
petals di Lilla:

Wisteria is a pancake
Happiness!

Alessandra Paolini

And if coltivassimo flower fields…?

Come scrive Wikipedia:  "The tam-tam is a type of drum used by some African peoples as a means of distance communication to spread a message from village to village. Metaphorically, the spread of information through word of mouth. "

Good, is a few days that my way, to create synergies, I launched a hashtag su twitter, for the more a slogan to unite and make known manufacturers; Italian producers who meet and I will meet in my wanderings on social media and especially ... in person floor plan. It's time to say ENOUGH to selfishness, and forward to shake hands! States can still! Scatter benefits no one. It must start mainly from “People”, then with good projects, you can go far…

The script that I set out below is the outburst of a friend, a producer of olive oil in the region of Calabria. Italy EMPTY of which he speaks are convinced that we can still fill ... I meet so many people, people especially need back to believe in someone who unite them, and in which they can have confidence! Italian Force! I want a #TamTamxla Terra!

 "Those who kill by the exploitation, the hypocrisy or the indifference of the rural world is erasing the future ".

Alessandra Paolini

Do not ask yourself what you are doing…

Do not ask yourself who is cultivating the corn on which you will furbish dissertations gastronomic, who prunes the oranges that spremerete for the most innovative cocktails, who is bent to tie the top of the peaches, who cutter, who fertilizes, send chi…

This world does not belong to you is in the margin where your greed has secluded, you turn around like hyenas never satisfied until you'll have to turn around in search of other carcasses, your! For whoever kills with exploitation, with hypocrisy or indifference with the rural world is erasing the future. Do not ask yourself what you are doing…

And now here is my little provocation, the pebble that launch, concrete S.O.S. a nave amica:

We denounce!

But we denounce zeroing in on these disgusting swamps in which the peasant culture or say the agro-business is sinking!

Raccontiamola the story of a prototype of FIGURE (Use the male because the term is such, but I have just bumped into a figure) who believes that feeds the chickens-can crush them as you think; a powder’ maybe not to those of the category that squeeze grapes, It is seen that the above is proud to be the holder of a wine, but a wretched old wine shop for drunkards would not be worthy to take the reins!

And raccontiamolo of these fringes or perhaps they are something far more substantial? They want quality at price zero to twelve months cashable, as the offering you give to spurgarti from sins! Italy is in crisis? NO! Italy will seek the crisis that has not yet fully reached, the proof is the existence and the economic livelihood of Italians who can not do their job, but, unfortunately, still continue to work to the detriment and expense of those who work well with such difficulty, and also to improve test!

As long as there is the GDO (large-scale distribution) who does not understand a heck of what sells and the idiot who spends 300 Euros for dinner but then pidocchia the pound of citrus, until there is the lady in mink asking why a kilo of peaches costs so much, until there is a restaurateur whose employees are paid to tip more than it costs them a bottle of oil, but the latter you only pay if you damage to remind him that the bill gave the previous year, until all that exists and proliferates, Italy will remain the landfill that has become, because men who live like those who govern do not want to understand anything and invest on the symbols and the waving of flags (green as the money) even if they do not really know whether they are profitable.

But Italy is not in crisis, Italy is EMPTY, il ché è ben diverso, la crisi, anche quella economica, presuppone dal mio canto una capacità introspettiva per cogliere ed elaborare al meglio la presenza di uno stato di crisi, di contro, the vacuum can try and test a fridge Class E, just like we Italians, cold, empty and foolish and greedy consumers!