The story
A Naples tradition, now at your table
Around 1900, while Neapolitan songs were travelling the world, the posteggiatori moved through the cafés of Naples, from the Gambrinus to the Salone Margherita, with a guitar and a song for whoever sat in front of them.
Their name comes from parking. They would park themselves beside a table and stay there until the song had done its magic.
They even had a secret language, the parlèsia: some two hundred words for money, love and music. In it, the guitar is called ’a cummara, the godmother.
Born in Naples, then Milan, now Dubai. I bring the same craft into the dining rooms of this city: I watch the room, I read the table, and I pick the song that turns a dinner into a memory.
GiGa
