Emma Morano died in 2017 at the age of 117, officially recognized as the oldest person in the world. But what makes her story truly fascinating is not so much her dizzying age as the way she has built her life: with a disarming simplicity, absolute independence and serenity that many of us would dream of achieving. Plunged into an extraordinary destiny.
A menu that has been repeated tirelessly for more than a century
One would like to imagine an elaborate food program, worthy of the greatest nutritionists. But Emma's reality was quite different: she had been following the same habits for decades, on the prescription of a doctor who had treated her for anemia in the aftermath of the First World War.