Roberto

Name: Roberto Maria Clemente 

What city were you born in?  Casale Monferrato, Italy

What decade where you born? 1960's 

Three things you remember most from the first decade of your life?

1. First time in a new apartment which I was living for the following 25 years of my life.

2. Playing archery trying to use cauliflower as a target for the pleasure of listening to the full sound when the arrow would hit the cauliflower.

3. Me in the box of a racing car circuit. They built a racing track in my village which remained for 10 years and my father had access to this circuit. 

What is the dessert?  Frittelle of Bread & Chocolate

Who would you want to eat this dessert with ?   A group of friends not defined.

Where would you want to be eating this last dessert?  On the terrace of my house.

What comes to your mind when I say the word FOOD?

Something about the word is really attractive to me - but i'm not able to get into it - something in me is resistant.

What is the best piece of advice anyone has given you?

Normally intelligence will win before ego, but very often ego wins. 

Profession:  Art Director

What is your favorite object I can find in your kitchen?

Timer in the egg shape and the powerful hand vacuum.

Favorite quote?

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion - Francis Bacon

Where do you see yourself in 20 years?

I'm pretty sure I'll be in a place with no light. 

Three most important things in your life?

1. Friendship

2. Love

3. Ethics

* pictured with Robi, is Chiara Costa

Marcella+ Nora

Name: Marcella Roggero

What city were you born in?  Imperia, Italy

What decade where you born? 1980's 

Three things you remember most from the first decade of your life?

1. My grandma making curtains for my kindergarten because she was a tailor.

2. My summers in San Bernardo where both my family and Fabrizio (my husband) had houses.

3. The first vacation with my parents. We went canoeing and camping and my dad made eggs like John Wayne on the open fire because he loved Western movies.

What is the dessert?  

Sacher Torte

Who would you want to eat this dessert with?  

With my husband.

Where would you want to be eating this last dessert?

On Cannon Beach, Oregon - the beach of the Goonies.

What comes to your mind when I say the word FOOD?

Happy time, sharing, family and friends.

What is the best piece of advice anyone has given you?

Follow yourself always - my mom told me that. 

Profession: 

Project manager for the Chamber of Commerce of Genoa which is affiliated with the World Trade Center.

What is your favorite object I can find in your kitchen?

My I Love NY mug.

Favorite quote?

"It's something unpredictable but in the end it's right, I hope you had the time of your life"- Green Day

Where do you see yourself in 20 years?

Based in Imperia but traveling to visit my daughters.

Three most important things in your life?

1. Love

2. Friendship

3. Honesty and being honest

Veronica

Name: Veronica M.

What city were you born in?  Turin, Italy

What decade where you born? 1980's 

Three things you remember most from the first decade of your life?

1. My room full of Barbies.

2. My very first day of school when I forgot to bring my snack and my friend who offered me half of her cracker. 

3.  When I broke my tooth and my parents and sister asked me how I did it and I answered I didn't know and I was just standing there with half of a tooth! 

What is the dessert?  

Jefferson Pie

Who would you want to eat this dessert with and why?  

My sister because she is my best friend and if I would want to share something I really enjoy - I would choose her. I would choose her for my last everything. 

Where would you want to eat this last dessert?

In Berlin because it's my favorite city in the world and my first grown- up experience abroad and I had lots of particularly beautiful experiences with my parents and sister there. 

What comes to your mind when I say the word FOOD?

A moment of coming together and sharing.

What is the best piece of advice anyone has given you?

 You have to follow your heart so that you can fly light - which means without heaviness of regret. My father said this to me. 

 What is your job? 

Sales Engineer for an Automotive company.

What is your favorite object I can find in your kitchen?

My whisk for my cakes.

Favorite quote?

If there is no price to be paid it is also not of value - Einstein

Where do you see yourself in 20 years?

Hopefully in front of a Jefferson cake with my kids.

Three most important things in your life?

1.  Time well spent

2. Love, laughing, fun and joy

3. Family

Jasmine

Name: Jasmine Senaveratna (Senaveratna means Beloved Warrior)

What city were you born in?  

Baltimore, Maryland

What decade where you born? 

1980's

Three things you remember most from the first decade of your life?

1. My cousin holding my hand in Paris on a rainy fall day on the way to get a cake for my birthday.  I remember walking on the leaves -- I was turning 5-years-old that day.

2. Waking up before my dad and trying to cook myself an egg, but it ended up looking like moon food. It was as far away from food as humanly possible. 

3. I remember being in Sri Lanka. My Dad and I liked to swim really far out in the ocean, and I remember swimming so far that when I looked back to the beach, my Mom was just a dot. I was courageous enough to get there, to the middle of ocean, but I remember thinking, 'MOM IS A DOT!'

What is the dessert?  

My mom's cheesecake.

Who would you want to eat this dessert with ?  

My Dad.

Where would you want to be eating this last dessert?  

On a trip somewhere on an island. Maybe my father and I are sitting, talking for a long time - maybe at sunset.

What comes to your mind when I say the word FOOD?

Warmth.

What is the best piece of advice anyone has given you?

In life, don't let time beat you to the finish. 

Profession: 

General Manager for Food & Hospitality

What is your favorite object I can find in your kitchen?

My wok is my everything!

Favorite quote?

"Be the change you want to see." 

Where do you see yourself in 20 years?

I see myself living near a beach or mountains. I have a restaurant, bar, or Bed & Breakfast and have delegated most of the responsibilities. I'm gardening, I've built my wine cellar, and am doing Sunday Suppers and a F**k ton of traveling. 

Three most important things in your life?

1. My friendships and my relationship - my family of friends.

2. Good wine

3. Sade

Paolo

Name: Paolo Armao

What city were you born in? Turin, Italy

Decade born? 1980's 

Three things you remember most from the first decade of your life?

1. The sound of the 80's (that I don't really love) but something that influenced that moment of my life. Electronics available for everyone - analog to digital. 

2. This little garden that I was going with friends at 6-yrs-old.  Exploring and hiding and creating our own world - something that absolutely shaped the way I am. Hiding, discovering, researching - trying to find new ways to enjoy the same space - something I do in my everyday job now - same approach - always finding new ways to feel stimulating new visions. 

3. Arrival of the video game - ATARI !  Enjoying with my brother - we were so excited.

What is the dessert?  Cannoli Siciliani

Who would you want to eat this dessert with and why?

I think it would be my dad. I'm very connected to Cannoli. 

Where would you eat this dessert?

Definitely in the small village near Palermo called Cinisi. It's very relevant for my family because my Aunt used to live there - she is passed away now. The feeling I had there was of entering a far west city. It's a half abandoned city with few people walking outside, very hot and there is a little church with brown bricks. Everything looks burnt by the sun. 

What comes to your mind when I say the word Food?  

Love and Intimacy

Profession:

Freelance Sound Designer

What is the best piece of advice anyone has given you?

Always have something to search and always someone to love - my Great Aunt Dina told me that.  

Favorite object I can find in your kitchen?

Brown rice tea that I bought in Tawain.

Favorite Quote:

"the only way to know for sure how far to go is to experiment with going too far" - Randy Thom

Where do you see yourself in 20 years ?

Honestly I don't really know where because part of the career I chose - it is possible only if you face it day by day. I love it but it's like walking in the mountains - don't look up or down - just keep walking forward. I love this feeling. I definitely want to have a family and kids and have that energy and try to deliver all the things that I learned to pass that information. 

Three most important things in your life?

1. Passion

2. Sound

3. Being present