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Erminia Cuomo, the second child of no less than 13 siblings, filled the role of queen of the stove from an early age, learning to cook for her own family.

08-November-2023

For a short time it was entrusted to the Carmelite nuns of Stella Maris College in Maiori, until the terrible flood that swept away houses and buildings.

It was a tragic night on the October 25, 1954, but fortunately the complex that housed hundreds of guys, including. Erminia, he was unharmed. A short time later, the father Dominic and the brother Aurelius find work at a construction company engaged in building the stretch of highway from Salerno to Vietri sul Mare. The two brothers move to the area, bringing with them Erminia who immediately demonstrates innate skills as a skilled cook.

Shortly afterwards she marries Raphael Ferraioli, owner with his family of theancient village diner Bacchus, already at the time credited as a "good eating place." Erminia immediately confronts her mother-in-law Letizia and from her learn much. At a distance of time, it can be said that that internship has been very helpful in making her the star of a kitchen full of fragrances as simple as refined, as rare as they are valuable.

With an eye always on the four children - Letizia and Domenico engaged in the family business; Andrea at the helm of the "Albergo Margherita" in Praiano, Gian Maria owner of the restaurant "Il Riccio" in Manhattan - Erminia crossed the finish line of fifty years as a cook. These wedding d' gold constitute a new stimulus that, far from convincing her to stop, encourage her to continue "having fun" behind the stove to the delight of the many foodies who increasingly come as in pilgrimage in his small "shrine".

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