″Here we say ‘Cilento lento’. Lento in Italian, it means slow,” says my B&B host Mino D’Agostino, gesturing at the meal before me. “You have to take the time to enjoy a dish of pasta or a wine, time to see a sunset… Cilento is not very developed, we don’t have much money because we prefer to do things slowly. But for us, that’s better.”
His father-in-law, Paolo Ferraro, who established the Antico Convento B&B with his wife, Concetta, taps me on the shoulder and motions to my plate: “Mangia, mangia!”