people here do things their own way. take the energy of new york and mix in the gritty elegance of new orleans. add 3,000 years of history and cook it all up in the heat of the world s most famous volcano. that is napoli. i m stanley tucci. i m italian on both sides and i m traveling across italy to discover how the food in each of this country s 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. in the south we are very used to fight. this place may be looked down on as the poverty-stricken underdog of italy. but the people who live in this region have their own way of doing things. for me this is our philosophy. this is our style, our tradition. they ve given the world its favorite food. pizza margherita. just don t forget where it was invented. if pizza was going to be born anywhere, it would be here in naples. the city is hot, fast, and a feast for the senses. naples is situated in campania. it s the unofficial capital of the italian south and is even older
lush hills. it came from the darkest, poorest streets of naples. and its story combines two of italy s favorite subjects, food and death. vesuvius explodes. italy s historic volcano bursts into the most fearsome and devastating eruption. at least once in every century it has hurled disaster. the volcano is this sort of everpresent threat, isn t it? it is. you know, because it is on the landscape. you always watch it. you always have it in your mind and in your eyes. professor elisabetta moro is one of the three million neapolitans who live in the shadow of the mighty volcano. people are obsessed by the possibility of dying, because there is a volcano, because there are earthquakes and because there are epidemics. yeah. so, it s very hard for them. life can be tough in this volatile city. it s no wonder everywhere you go in naples you see handmade
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