world brought to life by students flaunting their youth. this bread is an aphrodisiac. i m all alone in a hotel. why would i want to do that? this place is rich and its food is famous. some bold souls whisper that it s the best in italy. massimo: smell, smell, smell! the smell is unbelievable. 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. anger, religion, and death in one pasta. it has everything in it. i m here to discover why this place is home to the gastronomic superstars of the nation s food. nicola: this is made with love. .and how an obsession with perfection. woman: every cut is perfect. .drives its producers. will you marry me? and people here really know how to wait for the best things in life. massimo: slow, slowly, slowly arrive at the point of excellence. and because they ve waited. man: 25 years old. whoa! it rea
here you have fiocco and here you have the culatello. this is amazing. this is my favorite part because it s very fat. we ll mix the taste of both. it s incredible. here. yeah. .near to the two bones. okay. oh yeah. here you can taste the fat. yeah. here, you can taste the meat. it s more nutty. yeah, exactly. il fiocco. fiocco. nicola has rustled up a platter of the two proscuitti. but will the danish fake be obvious? so, what do you think? this doesn t even look like prosciutto. no. it s just dry meat. yeah. this is made for the people who want to go to the gym and grow up muscles. nicola has a point about the tastes of fitness fanatics. the lack of visible fat has definitely been part of the allure of this danish pig prosciutto. nothing. it s acidy. yeah.
from the second to the first cask. beppe, straight from his last film as pinocchio s dad, is playing the wise vinegar taster. yeah, yeah, yeah, it s like a ruby red. so it s ready when the person will get married. i love that. stanley: let s drink, let s taste. i ve cracked. enough of the history. let s try it, let s do it. take a spoon. i m thirsty for vinegar. and you actually taste it on a spoon. this is actually the five gold medals. the flavor is very long in your mouth. [upbeat swing music] ooh. it really is good.
when we are babies we grow up with this more than the milk. this is all my life. your whole life? yeah. so, what is this one? this is 26. twenty-six. months, yeah. here you have fiocco and here you have the culatello. this is amazing. this is my favorite part because it s very fat. we ll mix the taste of both. it s incredible. here. yeah. .near to the two bones. okay. oh yeah. here you can taste the fat. yeah. here, you can taste the meat. it s more nutty. yeah, exactly. il fiocco. fiocco. nicola has rustled up a platter of the two proscuitti. but will the danish fake be obvious? so, what do you think? this doesn t even look like prosciutto. no. it s just dry meat. yeah. this is made for the people who want to go to the gym and grow up muscles.
there is one thing always of setting down a cask so it s ready when the person will get married. i love that. stanley: let s drink, let s taste. i ve cracked. enough of the history let s try it, let s do it. take a spoon. i m thirsty for vinegar. and you actually taste it on a spoon. this is actually the five gold medals. the flavor is very long in your mouth. [upbeat swing music] ooh. it really is good. and here you tasted the king of balsamic vinegar, twenty-five years old. imagine that to get one liter of this, you need to start from