28-06-2014
Today she runs B&B Sant'Anna in Ceglie Messapica (tel. +39.0831.1985307) and sells the family extra virgin olive oil. The story of Pamela Filomeno, however, is also made of study and a touch of rebellion too. After having built her own identity, regardless of the privileges her family could grant her, she returned to Apulia which, as one can understand from her words, she loves dearly
I already knew I was a lucky girl when, barefoot, I used to press the grapes in my grandfather’s “palmento” next to his trullo, and when I used to run, again, barefoot, on the red ground, under the sun and in the midst of the cicada’s singing, constantly risking to hurt myself with a white stone. Putting my feet in so much poetry made me the victim of an obsessive sense of belonging to my land. For those who, like me, were born in the Eighties, experiencing so much beauty, tradition, farming culture is not a given thing at all, not even in the South. As the granddaughter of a farmer and daughter of an entrepreneur, I could have afforded comfortable journeys, design clothes and a private university, but I could never detach myself from the luck of having experienced how simple things can be great. For this reason I decided to invest in my training, and return to my Apulia to offer my intellectual contribution and facilitate the rebirth of the same charming stories my grandfather used to tell me and beyond.
The oil, and the smile, of Pamela Filomeno
Inside one of the bedrooms of the B&B Sant'Anna in Ceglie Messapica
Women who, for a moment, leave pots and pans to tell us their experience and point of view
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