my father, 1889. okay, 89. 89. wait a minute. come over here, stan. there you go. stanislao. yep. ooh, wow. scarpellino, that was his mother? no, no, no. no, scarpellino was your vocation. yeah. stone carver. stone carver. oh, a stone carver. so he was born in 89. yeah. when did he come to america? 1904. so that makes him 15, 16 years old. did he ever come back to see his parents? once. they never came to america? so he only basically only saw his mother one more time. that s right. from the time he was 15, 16. it s amazing, isn t it? yeah, yeah, it s incredible. and a lot of immigrants didn t. i know. i know. for a culture that is so family oriented, to just move away, it s hard to believe. i know. oh, there you go, dad. look, it s your family home, famiglia tucci. does it? yeah. that s it. let s go in.
my father and i are named after. the town of marzi, population 900. and happily, i m being joined by two semi-experienced guides, my parents, joan and stan tucci. wow, look at that. oh, look at the door. that s beautiful. wow. well, this is nice. we re walking down via morti. yeah, i saw that. the street of the dead. how nice. i m not going down there. no, don t go there. my father has been to marzi once before. and because our family is obsessed with our ancestry, he suggested we pay a visit to the local town hall to see what we can dig up about my grandfather s life. thank you. okay, so what year? 1889?
because cholera also played a significant role. yes it did. in its attitudes. it did for centuries. thankfully for us, by the late 19th century, the italian prejudice against naples and its food began to change and elisabetta s taken me to the place where, according to legend, in 1889 the italian queen ordered a pizza that went on to bear her name, the margherita. do you make pizza at home ever? in naples it s almost forbidden. there s no point. the only problem was during lockdown, all the pizzerias were closed. that was really bad. yeah. you know the first day after lockdown, 60,000 pizzas were made same day. really? yes and they were not sufficient because everybody wanted a pizza. because they were desperate. yeah. first the pizza then the vaccine. in the streets of naples, pizza
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