There are men who only had the misfortune of being born twenty years earlier so as not to see their lives profoundly changed.
by Guglielmo Olivero
And he is part of this large group Piero FeniliThe Fenyls because starting with the daughters Grazia and Gabriella no one called him by name. And this, we understand well, is not rudeness or lack of respect for the father, but the Tuscan custom of calling friends by their surname. He was born in Altopascio and moved to Alassio as a child where he met Piathe most beautiful girl in the neighborhood Borgo Cosciawho soon became his girlfriend and then his wife.
He told me Fenyls in one of the many meetings in Alassio: “I was lucky to meet the thousand characters of the Borgo Coscia neighborhood, at the barber shop Lazaruswith the Unit on the sofa and the bust of Lenin on the back, a Cerri who, with his delicatessen, carried out propaganda for the DC. And then the arguments, over sport, with cycling reigning supreme “.
Good times dear friend, the Internet and other creatures of the Devil were still far away. It’s a shame that the era of chefs on TV, a now cumbersome presence, was also long gone, but today television is flattened and without ideas. Yes why Fenyls he was a great chef, capable of creating authentic works of art, destined to disappear within a day. I remember the wonderfully sized cake world Cup in honour of Nando Martelliniguest of Nautical Club at the Sea of Alassio, in October 1982 which pushed the Grand Master of football commentary to repeat the cry three times “World champions” pronounced on 11 July at the Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid after the Italian victory at the World Cup.
“This cake should not be cut– She said Hammers – but kept next to the Cup”. He was modest Fenyls who never found a small publisher to publish a small volume with all the photos of his culinary masterpieces, tasted by the great personalities of sport and entertainment. But Piero he was also modest and perhaps compared to the arrogance of the chefs who appear on TV today and beyond, he would not have pierced the screen. Of course, a character who was not appreciated for his skill and his love of serving his city is leaving. He is not the only one in a world where if you don’t raise your voice you don’t have an audience. And then, saying to Piero that we will see each other very soon, I report, almost as an epitaph, one of his phrases” Today influencers and followers are in fashion. Those who have a million friends, but are alone in the evening drinking cappuccino“.
William Olivero
