I’ve spent my whole life at the stove,” says Vittoria Genovese, who lives in the tiny village of Nicola, population 120. “I’m so used to being in the kitchen that I don’t think it’s tiring—anyway, all my grandchildren come and keep me company.” She started cooking in summer visitors’ colonies when she was fifteen and for a while cooked at one restaurant in tiny Nicola at lunch and a different one at dinner. But once the family bought the trattoria Cervia in 1982, she and he