If I think of a piece of mine with more instruments, more orchestral, I would associate it with a dish, maybe a soup, that is made of different elements that were cooked for hours, and you can taste the different layers and ingredients in your mouth.
Every Wednesday they had a meeting in the publishing house and he would bring home some writers – sometimes important writers like Italo Calvino, Natalia Ginzburg, Primo Levi.
Last year I bought a Moroccan tagine and I very much enjoy making a tagine with vegetables or sometimes with fish and all the proper spices, like turmeric.
When I was about 16 years old, I was alone for a few months with my father, and he would call me at 5pm on Wednesdays and say, “Tonight, we are six!” And after a few months of experimenting, I was able to prepare a dinner for six, eight people.
Everybody in the area was making wine, but he was the first one to bottle a specific wine called dolcetto that, before him, you could only buy in big amounts.
