Mind the Roses

Mind the Roses

by John Gerard Sapodilla
Mind the Roses

Mind the Roses

by John Gerard Sapodilla

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Overview

Uncle Michelino
Born in Pellezzano di Salerno from an affluent family in a very poor world, my uncle Michelino had known happy days before the failure of his father's flask factory. After the disappearance of his father, possibly due to suicide, he had to interrupt his studies and leave the safe haven of the Father Salesian School, about which he always had good things to say. If his luck hadn't run out, maybe Michelino could have become the king of flasks.
After a while, we see him as an immigrant in Rome with his whole family. Luckily, friends of friends found him a job as an office boy in a private patent and trademark office.
The life of a young office boy from a good family was hard. He ate dirt at work but mama's good macaroni at home. In his spare time, he joined the merry brigade of paesanos in Rome.
Uncle Michelino was not a daring guy, but luck helped him anyway because the main partner of the office had an only son of the same age with whom he made friends. At the time of military service friendships count, especially if Italy had just entered the Second World War. Uncle Michelino showed up for a medical check-up in the barracks with a strange fever, due to a cigar he had kept under his armpit. The military doctor was been whispered a name and all ends well.
Luck was not yet satisfied with Michelino. See what happened some years later. The Patent and Trademark office had a branch in Milan and it happened that its director could resist temptation, to the detriment of the partners. That director must therefore be replaced quickly, but the men were at war and an incredulous uncle Michelino was catapulted by fate around Piazza del Duomo, where he landed off as a manager. For years he will carry out his honest job as a pain in the ass to the office employees. Mists in winter and too dry heat in summer, this was Milan, a city where everyone runs, without knowing the reason. Uncle Michelino was seized by the neophyte syndrome, the renegade Southerner used to chat about efficient Milanese and loafer Romans.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940165093104
Publisher: John Gerard Sapodilla
Publication date: 11/10/2021
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 409 KB

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Il Cuoco del Miramare e L’uovo Sbattuto
Il cuoco non può sopportare zio Filippo, E’ un istinto naturale, sentimento diffuso tra i nipoti che hanno la sventura di uno zio di successo. Zio Filippo da parte sua non fa che rendere peggiore la situazione, col suo comportamento immobile da dietro il vetro tenuto dalla cornice, sarcastico fissa suo nipote. Zio Filippo è il cordone blu della famiglia, chef reclamato e blandito dai ristoranti di Parigi, Londra, New York, per l’insuperabile supremo medaglione alle erbe di Provenza in crema ai tre formaggi svizzeri.
Come ogni mattina, prima di uscire al lavoro, il cuoco si mette in testa il cilindro da chef e al collo il cordone blu, si ammira tra estasiato e invidioso allo specchio, rimette a post e prende la porta. Anche lui un giorno avrebbe avuto un gilet e un orologio d’oro con catena come il fottuto Filippo.
Quante volte, nel giorno di chiusura, furtivo e di soppiatto, il cuoco è andato alla cucina del Miramare a provare la ricetta del medaglione: tante volte le galline convocate all’assaggio ci hanno raspettato con le zampette per allontanarsi scotendo il capo.
Tutte le creature hanno il loro segreto, la vergogna nascosta del cuoco è il guscio dell’uovo. Per fare l’uovo sbattuto è necessario frangere il guscio sull’orlo del bicchiere che accoglierà la chiara. Non si può fare altrimenti. Questa operazione causa una frattura nel sistema nervoso del cuoco, gli trema la mano.
Per porre rimedio, egli a messo a punto un metodo innovativo. Aperto lo sportellino di una stia, la gallinella salta giù e si allontana disinvolta, il calcio nel sedere del cuoco la sorprende innocente, crack.

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