In “One Good Meal,” we ask cooking-inclined creative people to share the story behind a favorite dish they actually make and eat at home on a regular basis — and not just when they’re trying to impress.

As the creative director and chief executive officer of Italy’s Pellicano Hotels group, Marie-Louise Sciò spends her summers traveling between her three properties: the flagship Il Pellicano, on the Tuscan coast, which has been in her family since 1979 and first became famous in Slim Aarons’s midcentury photographs; Posta Vecchia, a rambling villa once owned by J. Paul Getty outside Rome that the family bought in 1980 (complete with its world-class art collection) and transformed into a hotel in 1990; and this year’s addition, Il Mezzatore hotel and thermal spa, inside a 16th-century watchtower just up the shore from where “The Talented Mr. Ripley” was filmed in 1999 on the island of Ischia. “It’s close to Capri,” she says, “but it’s much wilder.”

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