This one, no, this one. He leans over the Umbrian basil, picks the leaf delicately. The director of the bars of the Majestic Emanuele Balestra may be finding a new alloy. Its small but wonderful garden, no festival-goer would suspect from the street, nestles between the pool and the Croisette.
There are Himalayan plants and Grasse flowers. Mertensia maritima tastes like a Gillardeau No. 3. To come and forage for this feast, bees zigzag between the official electric BMWs of the festival and the Lamborghinis of Italian customers in goguette. They have the most beautiful suite: their hives are located on the roof of the hotel.
Don't ask Emanuele Balestra about the stars and what they drink during the Cannes Film Festival. He is interested in botany. We learn all the same that Mick Jagger does not hate to lean on zinc when he is passing through. Balestra pushes the door of a small white room, laboratory where he prepares his...
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