Maurizio Marino, owner of Amici Miei restaurant

What did you want to be when you were a kid?
Since I was a child, I wished to be a gynecologist.

In which country would you like to live?
I’d like to live in Cuba.

What truth about yourself would you like people to know?
That I’m a loyal person.

For me it’s better to say everything.

What is never missing from your fridge?
There is always some salami in my fridge.

What was the last thing that was stolen from you?

How do you get up in the morning? What is your morning like?
Are you kidding – me getting up in the morning? I wake up late, around 11.00.

What is your favorite activity during the day?

What is the best place to make love?
In the office.

What is the worst place to make love?
In the sea.

None of it. I don’t have to love to make love nor I have to make love in order to love. Those things are not naturally united.

What do you like the most about women and what do you despise?
I like their capacity to make many things, but I don’t like their capriciousness. Or do you mean physically? Well, I like their lips and behinds…there is nothing I particularly dislike.

What do you like the most about men and what do you despise?
There is nothing I like particularly, but I can’t stand their egoism.

Who is your favorite fictional character?
Homer Simpson.

Your favorite insult?
Stronzo. (You idiot.)

Your favorite saying?
Mamma mia!

Which meal can you prepare yourself?
All the ones I like.

If you were organizing a dinner to which you could invite five people from anyplace and any era, whom would you invite?
King Arthur, Merlin, Archimedes, Christopher Columbus, and Mel Gibson.

How would you like to die?
Having a heart attack – to pass from a light sleep to the eternal sleep.

What would you like to have written on your gravestone?
He was great.

If you won in a lottery and no longer had to work to earn a living, what occupation or vocation would you pursue?
Managing a restaurant.

Which of your dreams has come true?
None of them.

What is your worst nightmare?
To be thought dead, then buried alive and waking up in a tomb.

What would be the first thing you would ask an extraterrestrial creature?
To take me with them.

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