city of togas and gladiators, power and intrigue, empire and ruin, and of course la dolce vita - the good life. i m stanley tucci. i m italian on both sides and i m travelling across italy to discover how the food in each of this country s 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. the famous ancients of rome once ruled the world. -but i m here to discover how it s the food of ordinary romans that has conquered our hearts. but i m going to warn you, if you re on a low carb diet beware. you re going to see a lot of pasta in this show. i mean, like, a lot of it. like, a lot. i ve been visiting rome for decades. its beauty and history still leave me breathless but sometimes it s difficult to find a good meal if you don t know where to look. rome is situated in lazio, a region sometimes overlooked in favour of its grander gastronomic neighbours like tuscany and umbria. but lazio has fed rome for centuries and every part of the sheep and pigs raised here is put to use i
time. daniele di michele is a chef, historian and dj who cooks italian food while he spins records. his stage name is don pasta. oh i have seen some of the stuff. yeah, yeah. oh it s really fantastic. yeah it s crazy, it s crazy. i was pretending for the audience that i didn t know, but why lie? it s a joke. it s really great. don pasta has promised me the greatest dish of spaghetti carbonara i ve ever tasted and on the way he tells me why pasta matters so much to him. i realised that italian food is popular food - roots food. italian food is the resistance of the normal people or the working-class people that eat well because the working-class people create the roots of italian food. yes. today we may think of a bowl of pasta as the ultimate comfort food but there s a distinctly uncomfortable history of italians fighting oppression through pasta. in
the stuff. i ve been promised the best carbonara in the city and i ve been told to come to the working-class backstreets behind termini station and to ask for the don. tell me what you do. i m passionate about popular food and for a long time i made a show where i play vinyl music disc and that s like a dj? as a dj, yeah. as a dj. but at the same time. daniele di michele is a chef, historian and dj who cooks italian food while he spins records. his stage name is don pasta. oh, i have seen some of the stuff. yeah, yeah. oh it s really fantastic. yeah it s crazy, it s crazy. i was pretending for the audience that i didn t know, but why lie?
like a dj. as a dj, yeah. as a dj. but at the same time. daniele di michele is a chef, historian and dj who cooks italian food while he spins records. his stage name is don pasta. oh i have seen some of the stuff. yeah, yeah. oh it s really fantastic. yeah it s crazy, it s crazy. i was pretending for the audience that i didn t know, but why lie? it s a joke. it s really great. don pasta has promised me the greatest dish of spaghetti carbonara i ve ever tasted and on the way he tells me why pasta matters so much to him. i realised that italian food is popular food - roots food. italian food is the resistance of the normal people or the working-class people that eat well because the working-class people create the roots of italian food. yes.
daniele di michele is a chef, historian and dj who cooks italian food while he spins records. his stage name is don pasta. oh, i have seen some of this stuff. yeah. really fantastic. i was pretending for the audience that i didn t know, but it s a joke. it s really great. don pasta has promised me the greatest dish of spaghetti carbonara i ve ever tasted and on the way, he tells me why pasta matters so much to him. i realized that italian food is popular food. roots food. the italian food is the resistance of the normal people, of the working class people that eat well, because the working class people create the roots of italian food. yes. today, we may think of a bowl of pasta as the ultimate comfort food, but there s a distinctly uncomfortable history of italians fighting oppression through pasta. in the early 1930s, mussolini