Where are you from?
Of Trieste.
I'm from Trapani, Sicily.
How old are you?
83
87
In everyday life, do you speak Italian or dialect?
I speak dialect, however, nowadays with my grandchildren even a little Italian, because unwittingly…
that's how it is now… as now, Italian also comes out.
I speak Sicilian as I was born.
How do you say these words in your dialect:
Why do you say "roooormire"?
Like you
Well ... thanks for the compliment!
... he liked it!
What are some typical dishes of your region?
The jota, which would be a bean and sauerkraut soup
but then we also have potato gnocchi with plums inside
we have Austrian and Slovenian influences
for example from Austria we have the apple strudel which would be the Austrian strudel
Dish with courgette ... me I always eat courgette
Okay ... another typical dish ... u "Couscous cu ammaro"
I like couscous but I used to do it once and now I can't do it anymore…
But it's good… I like couscous.
What is or what was your main dish?
What am I doing?
Yup!
Dunno, I do two things that I like:
potato gnocchi with sauce and lasagna with sauce too,
these two things for me ... and afterwards I manage.
Baked pasta ...
A typical dessert from your region?
Well, the Trieste beans are just…
even those are in season, when there are almonds.
Those are really from Trieste, I don't think they are anywhere else.
And then the presnitz which in any case always comes a bit from Yugoslavia,
the presnitz which is also like a strudel with raisins and dried fruit.
Cannoli, cassatelle, staple, ice cream ...
Attention ... difficult question!
Cabbage!
Mamma Mia!
Did you live better before or do you live better today?
Ah, what can I tell you guys ...
before we didn't understand, it seemed to be fine,
but if I think about the things I had after, after the war, let's
call it the economic boom that was there ...
then: refrigerator, washing machine, vacuum cleaner and all ...
and you know what I liked?
The bathroom! Mamma mia, the bathroom ...
I enjoyed the first years of marriage with the bathroom,
I would sit there, in the tub, and look at my bathroom and we enjoyed these things.
Better today than yesterday, now there are all the comforts ...
at the time we didn't have a bathtub or ... many things were not there
What do you think of cell phones?
So, I did not want it ...
I started to get a small one of those with whom I made phone calls,
and after my daughters: "take" ... it changes that you change, it changes that you change ...
now I practically have a smartphone.
It's cool, ah, what can I say, it's cool.
So how many cell phones do you have?
No well, one, come on ... eh what, a cell phone is enough for me.
And you, grandmother, what do you think of cell phones?
Dunno, they suck ... and everyone gets sick from cell phones.
And how many do you have?
I 2.
And why 2?
If one doesn't work for me, I have the other.
What is WhatsApp and what do you use it for?
So, I don't know what WhatsApp is;
I know that I press the green button
I see my nieces, I send photos ...
I have learned well enough
To talk to people, to see each other ...
to talk, to gossip, for many things.
What are your hobbies?
Now I like doing crossword puzzles, but really.
But it's not that I do them to pass the time, I really like it;
after I play with the computer for a while, I play computer games.
eh, well, well ... I like to sew a little ...
Sew ... nowadays little girls don't even know how to thread the needle!
Who are your favorite singers?
You know I don't remember the names of today's singers…
I like music, yes, but I always think of Frank Sinatra…
“My Way”, all those singers there.
Gianni Morandi, Claudio Villa once upon a time, Al Bano,
then there are many that I like, that I once liked… the oldest ones.
But they were all good, I liked them all: Modugno, Morandi, Celentano…
in short, I liked everyone a lot.
And then another thing: I also really like opera and operetta,
my grandmother started taking me to the theater when I was little
and then I like some pieces anyway, not all the opera ...
why listen to it on television it is boring, in the theater it is beautiful, but on TV ...
I also have CDs of the pieces of the opera that I like and I put them on.
What do you think of today's music?
You don't understand anything, but once it was of good quality!
I think I don't know how to give an evaluation because I remember those music there,
I don't hear those melodies, I don't hear.
At the limit I almost like rap more, which is nice,
which makes you ... well, like this ...
but today's music doesn't stay in my head, I don't know what to tell you.
What is an influencer?
So I the influencer, hoooo ...
Chiara Ferragni, I know she is an influencer, I know she takes a lot of money.
Those are… the artists…
Actually I also heard about an old woman who made the influencer with clothes,
I don't know… a niece put her on the internet.
Who do you like best between Chiara Ferragni and Giulia De Lellis?
So, I don't know who Giulia De Lellis really is.
Chiara Ferragni, there is little to say… what's the other one doing?
The other has yet to be born.
That one (Chiara) is older and knows how to do things ...
and then she has many followers, she has many friends.
Who do you like best between Fedez and Sfera Ebbasta?
So, Fedez I know that he is Chiara Ferragni's husband and that he is a rapper
and I also don't know the other, I don't know these names.
Apart from that even if I hear them later they come out of my head.
I don't know! X?! £ 2 & ... how did you say?
A Feder… Federico is called. I know Federico, but I don't know the other.
Who do you like best between Barbara D'Urso and Maria De Filippi?
None, you know?
I like both of them , I like both of them
, I like them both!
Who do you like best between Lukaku and Ibrahimović?
Dunno, Ibrahimović I know him for all the stuff he does
and I also don't know the other one because I don't follow football.
I don't understand what you said, who is it?
Footballers ... footballers ...
... aah, I don't know about footballers ... I'm not a fan.
Who do you like best between Cannavacciuolo and Cracco?
I hear every now and then that they are two cooks and I don't know what they do ... they
will do well to eat both of them.
I don't know, I don't know because I don't know them.
Do you buy any newspapers?
I only buy the puzzle week
Yes, since I was a girl, the "Grand Hotel" ...
once there was the "Bolero", there was the "Dream" ...
There were many newspapers and I bought them, but now I only buy the “Grand Hotel”
Be honest, what do you think of the PIAZZASQUARE videos?
Beautiful, beautiful ... come on, they are beautiful, they pass the time, they are good,
the boys are good and I watch them during the day
every now and then I put YouTube and watch something that interests me,
especially of all these ladies who learn Italian
and I also learn a little because in short ...
They are beautiful, they are beautiful, because they know how to speak well.
A proverb from your city?
The tongue beats where the tooth hurts which would also be in Italian:
the tongue beats where the tooth hurts.
Trapani is beautiful, then "the country you go, custom you find".
Instead, there is a nice Triestine motto, that we have it here right from…
Whether it's good or bad, always happy and never passion, live there and "po bon"!
What does it mean?
Things go well and badly,
but you have to be happy and be happy and it will be what it will be.