no wonder espresso was invented here. i think i might need a few of these just to keep up with the rhythm of the city, but do the hard-working milanese bring as much to the italian table as they do to the country s economy? i m stanley tucci. i m italian on both sides and i m travelling across italy to discover how the food in each of this country s 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. that s delicious. here in milan, the menu is nothing like you expect. up here in the north, forget about pasta and pizza. oh my god, that s so beautiful. perfecto. this is the land of rice and polenta. polenta in the ancient time, it was like the bread. people from south of italy call us polentoni . tucci: there isn t even a tomato in sight. this is amazing.
angela: polenta. and what we do and this is the recipe of the house, i don t know where it comes from, we put in the water a piece of garlic. it will leave a flavour. yeah, yeah, that s nice, yeah. but you know a lot about the food of lombardy, this area. polenta in the ancient times, it was like the bread. you eat it warm with meat if you re lucky or you would have eaten it with cheese, or you would eat it just with butter. or my favourite dish as a child was polenta e latte, warm polenta and cold milk. you know, people from south of italy call us from north of italy polentoni because we eat polenta. oh is that true, really? angela: usually you accompany it with juice and in this case we have e un brasato. braised with wine, onions, carrots, celery. it s been cooked for hours and hours at a really low temperature.
no wonder espresso was invented here. i think i might need a few of these just to keep up with the rhythm of the city, but do the hard-working milanese bring as much to the italian table as they do to the country s economy? i m stanley tucci. i m italian on both sides and i m travelling across italy to discover how the food in each of this country s 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. that s delicious. here in milan, the menu is nothing like you expect. up here in the north, forget about pasta and pizza. oh my god, that s so beautiful. perfecto. this is the land of rice and polenta. polenta in the ancient time, it was like the bread. people from south of italy call us polentoni .
kid. my mother would give me the mushrooms and i would have to brush them off. not ones we found, ones we bought, but that was my job. yeah. what are you making? polenta. and what we do, and this is the recipe of the house, i don t know where it comes from, we put in the water a piece of garlic. it will leave the flavor. yeah, yeah, that s nice, yeah. but you know a lot about the food of lombardy, this area. polenta in the ancient times, it was like the bread. you eat it warm with meat if you re lucky, or you would have eaten it with cheese, or you would eat it just with butter. or my favorite dish as a child was polenta e latte, warm polenta and cold milk. you know, people from south of italy call us from north of italy polentoni because we eat polenta. oh is that true, really? yeah. usually you accompany it with juice and in this case we have e un brasato. braised with wine, onion,
nothing like you expect. up here in the north, forget about pasta and pizza. oh my god, that s so beautiful. perfecto. this is the land of rice and polenta. polenta in the ancient time, it was like the bread. people from south of italy call us polentoni. there isn t even a tomato in sight. this is amazing. and olive oil plays second fiddle to butter. butter? jesus. whoa, jesus. warning - irresponsible amounts of butter were used in the making of this program. okay, i hate to say it, but we need more butter.