Through the Olive Branches . Theyre hard to avoid in puglia, a region thats home to 60 million olive trees. Thats one olive tree for every italian in italy. This region is italy at its most elemental simple fresh cuisine thats grown and produced here. Fragrant olive oil, beautiful vegetables, cheeses renowned the world over. Hello. Hello. One focaccia. And durum wheat for pasta and bread. Grazie. Look at that. Im stanley tucci. Im fascinated by my italian heritage, so im traveling across italy to discover how the food in each of this countrys 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. You really want it to be like that . Need to be like this. Despite being such a fertile region, puglia is also one of italys poorest. It was nicknamed the shame of italy. Located in the south, a place the italians call il mezzogiorno, or high noon, because of the intensity of the midday sun, poverty and hardship are very much a recent memory in this part of the world. Get out of here. But today
hello, i m in puglia, which is the heel of can you see me through the olive branches? they re hard to avoid in puglia, a region that s home to 60 million olive trees. that s one olive tree for every italian in italy. this region is italy at its most elemental simple fresh cuisine that s grown and produced here. fragrant olive oil, beautiful vegetables, cheeses renowned the world over. hello. hello. one focaccia. and durum wheat for pasta and bread. look at that. i m stanley tucci. i m fascinated by my italian heritage, so 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. you really want it to be like that? need to be like this. despite being such a fertile region, puglia is also one of italy s poorest. it was nicknamed the shame of italy. located in the south, a place the italians call il mezzogiorno, or high noon, because of the intensity of the midday sun, poverty a
through the olive branches? they re hard to avoid in puglia, a region that s home to 60 million olive trees. that s one olive tree for every italian in italy. this region is italy at its most elemental simple fresh cuisine that s grown and produced here. fragrant olive oil, beautiful vegetables, cheeses renowned the world over. hello. hello. one focaccia. and durum wheat for pasta and bread. grazie. look at that. i m stanley tucci. i m fascinated by my italian heritage, so 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. you really want it to be like that? need to be like this. despite being such a fertile region, puglia is also one of italy s poorest. it was nicknamed the shame of italy. located in the south, a place the italians call il mezzogiorno, or high noon, because of the intensity of the midday sun, poverty and hardship are very much a recent memory in this part o
all right. a few steps from the relative modernity of the town square, we are transported back in time. that s matera old city. that s incredible. i ve never seen an italian city like this. no, it s quite unique. yeah, yeah. this ancient town grew across one slope of the rocky ravine, known locally as la gravina. and although it dates back to the 10th century bc, for many it will trigger more recent memories. from the last james bond movie. oh yeah. that has been the first movie when matera in the cinema was actually matera and not some other places. because during the 50s and the 90s, when most of the movies were shot, the old city was completely abandoned and deserted. really? and when we from matera wanted to see our old city alive, we had to go to the movie theater. so a lot of this was just abandoned. all of this. abandoned? abandoned. and then people lived sort of around it? exactly. the sassi s labyrinth of underground caves were occupied si
yeah, yeah. this ancient town grew across one slope of the rocky ravine, known locally as la gravina. and although it dates back to the 10th century bc, for many it will trigger more recent memories. from the last james bond movie. oh yeah. that has been the first movie when matera in the cinema was actually matera and not some other places. because during the 50s and the 90s, when most of the movies were shot, the old city was completely abandoned and deserted. really? and when we from matera wanted to see our old city alive, we had to go to the movie theater. so a lot of this was just abandoned. all of this. abandoned? abandoned. and then people lived sort of around it? exactly. the sassi s labyrinth of underground caves were occupied since the paleolithic age. look at that. what is that? is that a church in there? yes. there is a little mountain, there are two churches that are dug. they dug into the mountain? exactly. to build the church. amazi