Maurizio Costanzo and San Giuseppe, what a story. How many anecdotes have surfaced these days regarding the great journalist who died suddenly on February 24th.
Days go by, but not the long wave of great emotion. We keep talking about Maurice Costanzo and those who can extrapolate from their memory fragments of memories that speak of him.
And if it is true that during his very long career Maurice Costanzo he met, and interviewed, tens of thousands of characters, more or less famous, the same tens of thousands of characters, including the many who later became famous thanks to him, got to know him and revealed his little secrets, not really secrets. A great little secret of the Roman journalist, which everyone, in reality, has always known, concerned his well-known gluttony.
Just as, on several occasions, it was the journalist-host himself who confessed, with a smile under his iconic mustache, how much his wife, Maria De Filippi, kept an eye on him constantly so that he didn’t exaggerate with sweets. The time that, in connection with Fabio Fazioinside What’s the weather like, Maria De Filippi opened the glasses case of Maurice Costanzo finding some Rossana candies inside, it was a funny moment and, at the same time… very sweet.
Maurizio Costanzo, San Giuseppe and that sweet memory
Over thirty years of his life Maurice Costanzo he lived next to her Maria De Filippi. For love, the great journalist also had to make painful sacrifices, especially at the table.
Maurice Costanzo was born in Rome and from the capital of Italy he regained his sunny, sociable and “big mate” which has always characterized the Romans. He has always loved being in company, being surrounded by family and friends. Even better if the company is welcomed near a richly laid table. The food, he always said Maurice Costanzo“is synonymous with happiness“. And, in glee, once she seriously endangered his health. It is the stressed journalist who has recounted this nice episode, fortunately without consequences.
“In Rome, in San Giuseppe, fried cream puffs are made. And many years ago I was in a restaurant in Campo de’ Fiori with a friend of mine and I ate twenty-four beignets, something to go to the hospital. Luckily I didn’t go“, as it reminds us italiaatavola.net. Chocolate ice cream has always been another great passion of his. Once the “straight path” has been taken, the only chocolate ice cream in the fridge of Maurice Costanzo it was the one without sugar. Days go by and the anecdotes about Maurice Costanzojust as the regret of having lost increases.
