{"id":1379,"date":"2020-03-05T17:52:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T16:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gc.dotflorence.com\/the-friendship-has-got-to-the-major-age-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:41:20","slug":"the-friendship-has-got-to-the-major-age-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigliocooking.com\/it\/the-friendship-has-got-to-the-major-age-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THE FRIENDSHIP HAS GOT TO THE MAJOR AGE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\nYES! 18 years ago!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is when I met Pete Snaith in Florence.<br>I was \u201cofficially\u201d his instructor in cooking classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The real fact is that this amazing guy has a big passion for&nbsp; this job and with all what turns around food as he was staying&nbsp;&nbsp;all day at the institute where I was teaching. With the excuse of helping and learning, he was in reality giving us several gifts.&nbsp;He is one of the few persons I have met who deeply understands the reality and the truth of FOOD.<br>These words may appear a little strange and seem to have the presumption to teach philosophy. Actually what&nbsp;&nbsp;FOOD does is&nbsp;<strong>to teach<\/strong>, to allow people to talk with IT and understand millions of truths behind its production, value, culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is what Pete and I feel and&nbsp; share<em>.<\/em> Some years later, Pete made so&nbsp; his life long friend Steve \u2013 better known as Stefano \u2013 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We all decided to go see my brand new school, GiglioCooking.&nbsp;<br>At a certain point Stefano asked me:&nbsp;<strong>&#8211; &#8220;Has this name anything to do with the Island of Giglio?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do not know how many times my face changed color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;Even more:&nbsp;<strong>he loves Giglio and he thinks it is one of the most beautiful places on earth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was the famous \u201cdrop\u201d that took us to the decision to collaborate: we had the same vision on more than one point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gigliocooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/s73f2108-1024x576-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2713\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YES! 18 years ago! 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