Felice Modica: modernization without perversion

From press to agricolture. The intellectual peasant produces wines and olive oil in Sicily, where Europe borders Africa whilst retaining its deep-rooted european cultural traditions

by L. C.

Felice Modica borned in Rome the November 19, 1959. Nowadays he lives and works in Noto, Sicily, helping his son Alessandro in running the familiar farm
(Azienda Agricola Bufalefi: link esterno). He cooperates with national newspapers, such as “il Giornale” of Milan and “La Gazzetta di Parma”, and he wrote some books. Recently, he is in charge for the gastronomical guide “identità golose” to grade gourmet restaurants. He is even well paid for this….

Why do you decide to make business in farming?
Because one’s destiny is ineluctable. I’m a farmers’ descendant.

Do you feel more a peasant, a farmer or a business men?
All of that.

A definition of farming.
A primary activity, in the ontological sense of the term.

An adjective for defining the world of farming.
Concrete.

A keyword for the future of farming.
Modernization without perversion.

A model men.
Luigi Einaudi.

Someone to… go to the hell.
All the dictators and the demagogues.

A book concerning the rural world you’d suggest to read.
Sketches from a Hunter's Album by Turgenev or some pages from Ana Karenina by Tolstoi where you can to relish the tolstonian joy of nature.

Your favorite book.
Il giorno del giudizio by Salvatore Satta.

Your favorite song or composition.
All the songs by De Andrè or Paolo Conte.

Your unforgettable movie.
“Miseria e Nobiltà” with Totò.

What would you like to find after passing away?
God. Otherwise, it is better to die immediately.