School for chefs for children with Down syndrome in the former boss villa

(ANSA) – NAPLES, APRIL 03 – A villa confiscated from a Camorra boss will now become a school for chefs where children with Down syndrome can aspire to become chefs. It is a starred chef, Gennaro Esposito, who believes in the “Cooking a Revolution” project and who, as part of the 2023 edition of the “Festa a Vico”, gathered the support of other colleagues to ensure the necessary funds for the purchase of a professional kitchen. ”I am sure that this learning opportunity offered to the children of the Mehari family – chef Esposito, present at the inauguration in Quarto (Naples), told ANSA – will be well received. The kitchens – he explains – are places of inclusion where teamwork and mutual respect win but above all it is a place where you have fun sharing the pleasure felt by customers in tasting what has been prepared”. The villa, dedicated to the journalist Giancarlo Siani killed in 1985 by the Camorra while he was on board his Mehari, it was inaugurated in 2022 after being confiscated from the boss of the Polverino clan, Nicola Imbriani. “A professional kitchen for kids has always been one of our dreams – explains Maria Trapanese, president of voluntary association “La Bottega dei Semplici Pensieri” – and finally today we achieved this objective of ours”. Also present at the inauguration were the mayor of Quarto Antonio Sabino and the chef Michele Pelliccia, head of the course. ”The cuisine – he said Exposed to the numerous young people present, many of whom have already started working careers – it is a magical place”. A magic that, judging by the smiles and a few tears that escaped the kids at the ribbon cutting ceremony, has already taken up residence in this place ready to baptize the first chef trained at Casa Mehari. (HANDLE).