Photo by Antonella Di Girolamo
Their fans range from 4 to 90 and passes years. They write emails, letters, send drawings, they go to find them, call them. A successful TV format that has reached the fourth season, has already recorded the following ones, and maintains its share also in the replies that are planned continuously.
The cuisine of the nunsbroadcast on Food Network-Canal 33 (entirely dedicated to food), it is a singular experience. Just think that the protagonists are Four Benedictine nuns of the monastery of Sant’Anna, in Bastia Umbra, that the TV watches it even. “But this allows us to be very spontaneous,” he explains Sister Myriamthe teacher of the novices, Neapolitan, 40 years old, a degree in philosophy.
Together with Eleonora31 years old, Treviso, psychologist, in the half hour of transmission Myriam prepares typical Campania and Venetian dishes, their two regions. Alternate with two Venetian sisters: The Mother Badessa, Noemi Scarpa47 years old, e Sister Debora42 years old, architect, who present the ancient recipes of the monastery kept in a precious wooden casket Discovered during post-terre renovation works.
“There was a note that said:” Here are the recipes of the Benedictine of Sant’Anna. ” They go from the mid -sixteenth century to the eighteenth century, they are handwritten, with the language of time », explains Sister Myriam.
The sisters of the time had theirs Spiritual Vocabulary also for the kitchen: a I believe It was the cooking time, a Ave Maria for the compound, even less a Glory to the Father.
«We published them, shortly after Rai1 proposed us to do a service. And from here everything else was born », continues Sister Myriam.
Although the recipes of the black cabbage soupThe Gateau of Santa Chiarathe scafate or sweets “The mouths of the abbots” are delicacies or can intrigue, the nuns explain that their success on TV “was born from the need for sharing”.
The kitchen approaches people. «They consider us as a family, beyond the content of the program. They also write to us from hospitals, from nursing homes, from prison ». And from the recipes we move on to the meeting …
(Image at the top: the nuns of Bastia Umbra became famous at the great Puibbrico with the program La Cucina delle Monache. Photo by Antonella Di Girolamo)
Read the complete interview with the protagonists of the TV program “La cuisine delle nuns” on the number of believing in distribution in newsstands and religious bookstores from Thursday 26 June and in the parishes from Saturday 28 June. Or buy a digital copy on www.edicolasanpaolo.it
