Pisani, who is fifty, lives with his family in Cannicchio, the hillside hamlet in which he grew up; but he could be called “the consultant mayor,” having left the region after university to work in business administration in Naples and Rome. Although proud of Pollica’s reputation for super-agers, Pisani is focussed on the younger generations. “For me, it is most important to say to the youth, ‘Yes, go abroad, get your experience, and return to Pollica, because we need innovation,’ ” he said. He has established the Angelo Vassallo Center for Mediterranean Diet Studies, where, in a thirteenth-century castle, Sara Roversi, a faculty member at the University of Bologna and the founder of the nonprofit Future Food Institute, heads the Paideia Campus, teaching integral ecology and heritage know-how to high-school students, and also hosting visitors from the food industry. Of Pisani and his commitment to Cilento, Roversi said, “He’s like a priest—a person who has decided to dedicate his life to this.”