Raw Eggs and No Husband Since ’38 Keep Her Young at 115

Emma Morano in her home in Verbania, Italy. She is the oldest person in Europe, and the fifth oldest in the world.
ALESSANDRO GRASSANI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

VERBANIA, Italy — Celebrity came late to Emma Morano. Her routine life, in fact, might have raised barely an eyebrow were it not for the fact that she’s managed to hold on to it for so long.

At 115 years and nearly three months, Ms. Morano is the oldest person in Europe, the fifth oldest in the world and one of only a handful of people whose lives have straddled three centuries.