perched-up hill towns and rustic cuisine. stop filming and just eat it. i m stanley tucci. italian on both sides and i m travel across italy to discover how the food in each of this country s 20 regions are as unique as the people and their past. [ speaking foreign language ] ummian food isn t about expensive restaurants or tricky techniques. it s all about the skill and hard twhoork goes into producing its precious raw ingredients. for instance owe r from innovative farmers and chefs preserving traditional ways of cooking this food from the lands and a note for vegetarians watching, umbrians eat a lot of meat, like a lot of it, huge amounts of it. i surrender. so the pork umbria is named after the umry, one of italy s most ancient people. their landlocked homeland is right in the middle of the country. bordered on the rest by its more glamorous neighbor tuscany, it s often overlooked and while the landscape here is similar, the culture is very different. less fancy,
of all the faure tale land scapes i ve seen in umbria, this one may be the most breathtaking. perched atop a cliff of volcanic rock, or sri etto is visible for miles in every direction. its ornate cathedral reaching up to the helps is one of thech finest in italy and beneath its dazzling dome, or vietto has more stories to tell. local chaff valentina is on her way to give me the grand tour, but i ve got time to try a local delicacy charmingly called il baffo meaning moustache because