Cilly 
A tradition of the North is to give bread and salt to those who took one home. His friends and neighbors, during the first visit, bring a dish with bread and a bag of salt, a bag of those rustic paper, wound on itself itself.
Cilly came with a ceramic plate, a nice brown bread made by her and the rooms decorated in birch bark, a heart.
Cilly is Cilly Hoferer, Cecilia anagrafe of Friesach in Carinthia.
Cilly not have much time, is very busy. Basically, the restaurant takes him alone in the kitchen if she is not the work is halted. Use products with zero km, and is looking as if by magic. Products produced locally, but also herbs, flowers, berries. Each year, following a project with the elementary schools Friesach and brings children to the third class, those who are studying the Middle Ages, with her in the woods. Collect fruits and herbs and then cook. A soup, ravioli, sometimes sweets with ricotta. Cilly explains to children in the Middle Ages these were the products available and then you ate so Friesach. The kids were only seven of the third: they cooked with her all morning and then have served to seventy people, including parents, children and teachers, the full menu of the Middle Ages. Children are sautéed, served on the table cleared. A very instructive lesson, if you will remember for life. A lesson with great risks, but bears Cilly them willingly, is a reckless nature.
Friesach is a beautiful medieval city, is the only city in Northern Europe that still has a moat with running water, so they told me with pride to the patrons of the bar Cilly,'s worth a trip. I've been on for the first time last summer, Waltraud, who has known Cilly following an interview that he did and after which they became friends. It 'was an interesting finding, there is much to learn from her, if only the serenity of taking major decisions.
The day after the opening Dawit's Cilly arrived at five with his symbolic gift, I have here in the hall.
With this formal way that the Austrians have to tell you when things are important things, that particular way of making a solemn moment, I wished him luck, but particularly health, " that combines for the rest," said so.
He drank a cappuccino travel with me, asked me to go to explain why we Italians make a cappuccino, and so she can not do it, I promised that I would have done a course at home. " Every day you can learn something new " Cilly says, "you never stop .
And it's due ripartire di corsa: alle sei aveva una cena con trenta persone e ci vogliono più di tre quarti d'ora per arrivare dalla mia alla sua cucina.
Se penso che s'è fatta un'ora di viaggio per andare e poi un'altra ora di viaggio per tornare, per portarmi una cosa che ha un valore inestimabile, per lei e per me, la sua condivisione e la sua stima, penso che sono proprio fortunata a conoscere persone così, e sono proprio fortunata ad aver avuto l'opportunità nella mia vita, di poter imparare la sua lingua.
Che ricchezza, potersi capire, dobbiamo insistere con i nostri ragazzi perchè si avvicinino ad altre lingue, anche in maniera non didattica, buttiamo le grammatiche e cerchiamo di aprire i cuori!
Cilly prima di andare a guardato tutto, mi ha dato dei bei consigli e poi mi ha detto " Se ti capitasse di non sapere dove sbattere la testa, chiamami, troverò il tempo di venire a darti una mano, non farti problemi". Non farti problemi ! Cilly, DANKE!
