historic heart of the city. for hundreds of year, the poorest people in naples were packed into these minarrow streets. terrible sanitation meant that your life could be snatched from you at any moment from the brutal epidemic of their age, cholera. >> people really got scared. because it was an epidemic, like more or less like the covid-19 virus, so you could transmit it very easily. >> right, right. cholera was spread by water and by food. so people here cooked pieces of bread in hot oil. so the frying is simpler. >> it's simpler, it's easy. you can get a very good point of hygiene, because, you know, frying really sterilizes everything. >> yes. >> it was probably one of the few times in life that frying something might actually have been healthy for you. so this is where we're going to get fried pizza? all right, ciao!