Morandi, Mina, Celentano, Pupo, Mannoia, Gaber, Cremonini, Jannacci: Italian music has always been linked to its cuisine. Here are some "tasty" examples to go back in time and remember the great successes that saw all kinds of food on the Ariston stage
If it were possible to organize a Sanremo festival dedicated to food, there would really be fun. from Pasta with tomato by Rita Pavone al babà (which "is a serious matter") of Marisa Laurito, praised on the Ariston stage in 1989, there are many texts that bring to food music and typical products of the Belpaese. But not only.
Timeless Gianni
Bananas and raspberries are not exactly two fruits shared by the boot like the famous "pizza and mandolin" on the mouth of all foreigners when it comes to Italian cuisine. Gianni Morandi in 1992 had managed to make these two fruits since exotic rhythm a great catchphrase. At the top of the charts for several weeks, the single by the evergreen artist from Bologna is still a cult of Italian music, as well as another piece of it with a cooking flavor. A song that in 1962 consecrated Morandi among the greats of the song of our country: “Get mom to get you milk". "Fat mandèr da to mama a tór dal lat" in the dialectal version engraved by Andrea Mingardi, even with reggae arrangement.
Different styles on the Ariston stage
Spaghetti, pizza and above all persimmons. In the passage with which Helium and tense stories everything comes second at the 1996 Sanremo. "The land of persimmons"Is another totem of Italian music of the nineties, becoming, in 2013, the initials of the TV broadcast conducted by Antonella Clerici, "The land of the cooks". But talking about music and food means above all going back in time and running back to 1974, when Jonny Dorelli he sang, inspired by the comedy of the same name, "Add a seat at the table". A place in the annals, in the same way, if they are awarded by right is the aforementioned "W pappa col pomodoro" of the Peacock is "But what goodness" of his majesty Anna Maria Mazzini, aka Mina. What is this robina here? It is simply history. It is simply a piece from 1977, a symbol of a truly different Italy from the current one, in the midst of epochal changes of which music was a witness and spokesperson.
Chocolate in notes
And some sweet and slightly salty chocolate ice cream baby do we want to talk about it? Obviously yes. Because here too, with Mr. Enzo Ghinazzi from Ponticino, just over three thousand souls in the province of Arezzo, Italian music, in the late seventies, gave posterity a immortal hit. Still danced today and remixed on every album in the country, Pupo's catchphrase is another one of those songs that are difficult to get out of your head despite decades since Cristiano Malgioglio he composed the text. But ice cream is also the protagonist of other songs, such as that of Paolo Conti 1979, "Lemon ice cream". Fruit likewise praised also by Gaber and Jannacci, about ten years earlier, in "A slice of lemon".
Water, salt and coffee
Returning to Mina, her duet with Celentano (base of any self-respecting karaoke still today, useless to hide it) from 1998 "Acqua e sale". While it is also right to remember how coffee has always had a respectable space in Italian record history. For Alex Britti, in 2008, it took seven thousand waiting for your loved one. The unforgettable Pino Danieleinstead he wrote a real hymn in 1977, "Na tazzulella 'and cafe", while for Fiorella Mannoia, in 1981, "hot black coffee" was a way to kill time before his love revenge.
Not only city of flowers
However, it is not only a Sanremo that food ends up on stage or in albums to listen to. Staying on coffee, in fact, we cannot forget the curious recipe of “Peppina's coffee", Which has not been drunk in the morning, neither with milk nor tea since 1971. In that year, Gold sequin brings to the fore for the first time the song written by Tony Martucci, but over time the tune has never ended in oblivion. As well as "Grandma Pina's tagliatelle”, First classified at Zecchino in 2003 and on TV during several broadcasts.
Plenty of food
"Champagne" by Peppino di Capri, "Honey" by Gigi D'Alessio, "Bubbles”By Vasco Rossi,“ Marmellata # 25 ”by Cesare Cremonini, "Barbecue" of Article 31 and "Tomatoes" of Gino Paoli: food and music, there really is something for everyone. And maybe it would take a whole book to remember all the passages with this leitmotiv. An appeal, therefore, for those who think they are truly part of “The society of magnaccioni"(Gabriella Ferri, 1964) Italian: are there still other suggestions?
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