CARLO LUCIANO LOMBARDI
interviewed by Toni Cosenza
Luciano Lombardi D'Aquino, RAI journalist, by Biagio Agnes founder of the first medicine program on Italian TV, Chek-up, one of the protagonists to cook without fire. Deputy Director
GR1, GR1 Sciences and director of TG1, Luciano Lombardo is the son of art, with mother, Donna Maria Luisa D'Aquino. writer, poet and journalist, and father, Umberto Lombardi, Lieutenant Colonel of the Sharpshooters killed by the Nazis after September 8, 1943.
scholar of history and culture of Naples (Croce, Liner, Viviani, Di Giacomo) and lover of good food, meet Luciano Lombardi during the preparation of his inviting vitel tuna. The passion for flavors of the past has never moved away from large reports. Famous is that he was a protagonist, with Mario and Luigi Necco Falconi, in the discovery of diggers in the magnificent Conca della Gaiola, in Posillipo, they were getting rid of one of the major archaeological sites Neapolitan: the famous Villa Vedio Pollio, with an adjoining theater 1500 places, where Virgil loved to entertain Augustus and Maecenas read verses of the Aeneid. Survey, we would say today, the Indiana Jones, who saved her from the popular park speculation that threatens to return to private because the Campania Region has never paid the fee of € 800,000 expropriation, compared to 600,000 paid regularly by the Superintendence . Even
once a bailout?
"We hope so. The historic center of Naples, despite the deterioration of the environment, yet offers so much to discover and preserve. Such as traditional crafts, the old kitchen, craft shops, if only we think of those shops that sell bread and whose insignia is still Boulangerie.
a Frenchman.
"Let's say a cultural phenomenon that has traced the history of Naples, mixed ages, from '200 to the reign of Murat Giocchino, beginning 800, much of which remains in art, education, language, customs and food, such as vitel tuna that I proposed this evening. "
Who swears and delighted guests.
"Keep account that the vitel tuna dish was the Angevin court, which is still alive in the Neapolitan folk tradition. On the other hand only the French could come up with a couple united in meat and fish!
recipe?
"It is no secret: 600 gr. of lean veal, 400 gr. tuna, 4 anchovies in salt, lemon juice and extra virgin olive oil to taste, a handful of salted capers, and running away with the pot. And then it takes the skill of the chef. " Match: The Scolca Rose 'Rosa Clara' 2008.