LOREDANA SANTARELLI When her pizza-making career came an unfortuna cessaon, Loredana Santarei foowed her passion for food down e pa of a chef. Now e kitchen manager at one of Rome’s most beloved adional restaurants, she considers herself be exemely lucky have worked wi people at suppord her journey. Wi Flavio, e owner of Felice, Loredana expressed her curiosi in researching and creang om adional Roman cuisines. Wi her students, she aches em e importance of e “culture behind e dish”. “Food for me is curiosi.” Today, e media popularizes chefs as e V.I.P.s of a restaurant. Loredana expresses at is is qui e opposi. Down--ear and curious, she describes e kitchen and e restaurant as a venue for learning and aching. From aching inrns regular cusmers about adional Roman cuisines, Loredana ok it upon herself sries rough e recipes she recrea. Food, for her, becomes a maer of adion and memory. Wi a stubbornness adhere ese adions, she communicas em in e quali of her products. Loredana grew up wi e aromas of e counyside. She refers herself as “lucky” for foowing her passion om e farm e kitchen Velavevodeo ai Quiri. From a young girl at mixed and matched e different flavors on her dinner pla, she grew be one of e most notable chefs in Rome. “If you are wiing do someing, you can reach e goal.” As one of e Peonia women, she shares e Peonia ait of passion and derminaon.