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Article: Add olive oil, basil, and serve by the sea Where better to learn how to rustle up the finest Italian food than at a school-with-a-view on the stunning Amalfi coast? Sarah Gracie is an only too willing pupil
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 15, 1998
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CAMPANIA FELIX is the name the Romans gave it. The stretch of
coast to the south of Naples has always drawn those wealthy enough to
pursue pleasure with serious dedication. The Romans built large
villas here. Tiberius retired to Capri from AD27-37, leaving the
empire rudderless behind him. The Swedish doctor Axel Munthe came
here to write his masterpiece, The Story of San Michele, in 1929.
And Franco Zeffirelli and Gore Vidal, latest in generations of
artists, writers and tycoons, have villas in the mountains above
Amalfi.
It is here that Italian Cookery Weeks has opened its new school.
"I wanted to add Neapolitan food to our repertoire," says Susanna
Gelmetti, who founded Italian Cookery ...