Pietro can't remember the first time he saw the island, but only because he was just a toddler: his family started going there in the 1980s, until they spent the whole warm season there. His father Filippo wanted that island to become his family's second home. But to move to Sifnos he needed to work there, and so he decided to open a restaurant. Italian food, of course. And an Italian name, too: Mamma Mia.
Pietro grew up between Milan and the island, which was always full of friends and music. Sifnos is relatively close to popular resorts like Mykonos, yet remains light years away from the trajectories of mass tourism. The tourists on Sifnos are mostly Greeks, they are writers, intellectuals – even a few politicians, such as former Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis. In his twenties, Peter begins cooking at Mamma mia. Over the next twenty years his life runs on two parallel tracks. In Sifnos he is a chef, in Milan he makes music: he founds 2nd Roof with Federico, then goes on to produce hundreds of hits, getting gold and platinum records in Italy and around the world. In Greece, he doesn't miss a summer: the Mamma Mia still is a family affair today.
We remember exactly the first time we saw Platis Gialos beach. And also the first time we ate Mamma Mia's shrimp pasta. Some things are impossible to forget. To celebrate 20 years of friendship between the IUTER family and the Mamma Mia family, we produced two T-shirts and a dad cap, featuring a vintage photograph from the late 1980s and the wonderful pasta logo designed by Santy, a legendary figure of Milanese graffiti and street art.
