trading empire. silks, spices, ideas and money, lots of it. the venetians live between earth and water. it s shaped their character, salty, wise and ingenuous. i have never seen anyone do that before. 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. may i? thank you. how are you? good. good. surrounded by wetlands, these people are hunters. you re a great shot. and gatherers. it is perfectly balanced. wow. wow! the sea brought the outside world to the venetians and fed their appetites. mmm, so many different cultures right in a bowl. venice is the capital of the venito region. it is flat, fertile and damp. sheltered in the west by the dolomites and in the east warmed by the adriatic sea. 117 islands sit in this salty bay, the lagoon. venice is the largest. no food is grown here. it all comes in from the outside. i want to
how do you say magical in italian? magical. that s how you say it? magical, the same. unbelievable. just across the lagoon is an island, renowned as the place where the people who first built venice lived. i ve come to a restaurant where its chef is from a family of duck hunters. a third generation duck lover, he is cooking his take on a venetian classic, duck ragu. the elements are simple, onions, carrot, thyme and bay leaf are sauted in olive oil. a simple stock made with the bones stands ready. the chopped duck is browned with the stock in a little white
we have about 500,000 ducks. the population is increasing a lot over the last, 10, 15 years. ten times more than ten years ago. so here the job to conserve and improve the environment is all what we do. how do you say magical in italian? magical. the same. unbelievable. just across the lagoon is the island, renowned as the place where the people who built venice first lived. i ve come to the restaurant where a chef nikola is from a family of duck hunters. a third generation duck lover,