no wonder espresso is invented here. i think i may need more of these to keep up with country. i am stanley tucci, i am italian on both sides and i am traveling across italy to discover how the food in each of these countries, 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. it is delicious. here in milan, the menu is nothing like you would expect. up here in the north, forget about pasta and pizza, this is the land of rice and palenta. people from south of italy. there is not everyn a tomato in site. olive oil plays second to butter. i hate to say it but who needs more butter. milan is the second biggest city in italy. it is the capitol of london. the gateway to northern europe and all of the traded money that that brings. sophisticated, elegant and rich. the kcathedral, the biggest church in the whole of italy. this breathtaking architecture jewel pointing upwards is the perfect metaphor for this. where are you taking me? up. just up. bepe is a new york times
a tendency to wonder is this ever going to change? we have always been a rich country. do you think you can get somewhere on this. what s promising is that we tend to move quickly with new ideas with sort of dizzying speed. i think of sushi but also of greek yogurt, of kale, items that were inconceivable to be popular five or ten years ago. and with american food culture, the change is rapid. that doesn t happen in other cultures, for good reason, because they have a pattern of eating that actually supports a food tradition and a culture and a landscape. what s needed for the future is to set the stage for how do we think about a pattern of eating that reflects and supports the landscape. when we do that, when we truly support a landscape, we re going to be soaking up a ton of waste and inculcating it into our everyday diets in ways that our pleasurable. to me the message of food waste is not a wagging of the finger, which i tend to do, but instead
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