and we ll be sticking to the local rules. napoli is a truly thrilling city. the second you arrive, you re engulfed by a magnificent chaos. and there s no point in fighting it. people here do things their own way. take new york, mix in new orleans, add 3,000 years of history, and cook it all up in the heat of the world s most famous vokt. 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 path. in the south, we are very used to fight. this place may be looked down 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 a philosophy. this is our style, our tradition. they ve given the world it favorite food. pizza america. just don t forget where it was invented . if pieced was going to be born anywhere, it would be here in naples. the city is hot
take the energy of new york, 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 m this is a philosophy. this is our style, our tradition. they ve given the world its favorite food. pizza! just don t forget where it was invented. firenze. napoli! 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 than rome. it s a region
[ speaking non-english ] okay, so, pizza, ricotta. provola. it s a smoked cheese. [ speaking non-english ] you know, since the century, her family is doing this. for a century? for a century. these streets were once full of places like this. but fer nanda is the last of an historic lineage. [ speaking non-english ] oh, it puffs up, doesn t it?
crew, and i are the only guests. rather than allow all this incredible food to go to waste, they re making a feast for all the brave souls still here. while the kitchen team work serenely, the film crew help me capture some views of the famous amalfi coast you won t normally see on a postcard. isn t it so gorgeous? look at it! i know. whoa! yeah. until nature sends us all running back inside. it was like hail the size of amalfi lemons. it just came down! holy [bleep] you know, i ve had dreams about having this place all to myself. being brought platters of beans, mushrooms and olives from the family farm. fried squid.
of fat on it, sometimes pepper. because, you know, people were really poor. at a certain point, people here invented pizza if. but for many years, it was neapn dish. because cholera played a role. thankfully for us, the late 19th century the italian prejudice against naples and its food began to change and elizabeta is taking me to the place where according to legend in 1989, the italian queen ordered a pizza that went on to bear her name. the margherita. do you make pizza at home, ever? in naples, it s almost forbidden. there s no point. the only problem during lockdown, all the pizzerias was closed. that was really bad. you know, the first day after the lockdown, 60,000 pizzas were made the same day. really? yes, and they were not sufficient, because everybody