But i like the idea thAt The train goes on a boat. I think we should get a car on top of this and be on a car and a train, not a boat. And then, have a horse on top of the car. I im stanley tucci. I am fascinated by my italian heritage and i am traveling across italy to discover how the food in each of these countrys 20 region is as unique as the people and their past. Sicily is a mythical land of contrasts. Fire and water. Dry and fertile. Refined. Thats very french. And rough. How did one of the poorest regions in europe create the richest of cuisines . Get ready. This is delicious. I want to take a bath in it. Every mouthful here is an eruption of flavor. Oh, my god, thats so good. Oh, my god before i arrive in sicily, there is one delicious Food Ritual that i have to experience. Its a tradition to eAt These while you are on a boat passing this statue of the madonna. These. Look At That. These beautiful little cones are rice with saffron, peas, meat. The story goes thAt The arabs brought these to sicily in the 9th century. Handrolled rice with a meat filling. Breaded and fried. Thats good. The taste, i am told, is the taste of home for all sicilians. Just a few miles off the toe of the boot of italy lies the island of sicily. Its southernmost region. And with Volcanic Soil so fertile, its nickname is gods kitchen. But sicily is also said to be home to the gates of hell. Impoverished for centuries, conquered by everyone from the arabs to the french. And haunted by its mafia connections. The locals have learned to make the most of whAt Theyve got. In this fiercely traditional region, things are changing. And i want to discover the effect its having on the food. Classic sicilian cuisine is harnessing the power of simple ingredients and allowing them to shine. Dont mistake uncomplicated for bland. Seafood, vegetables, and pasta only need a little local Olive Oil and salt to reveal their sublime qualities. Just outside the Capital Palermo in a seaside town, an amazing Selftaught Chef has built his reputation on the basics. Cocoa left school at 17 to work with his dad making Stained Glass for churches but he fell in love with food. And now, owns a michelinstarred restaurant. Tony is cooking his version of the sicilian classic. Oh, i see. It creates a little texture to it which helps the sauce which ends up give everything a better flavor. What could be more italian than spaghetti, right . Well, wrong. Its said that spaghetti was invented by the arabs who brought it to sicily A Thousand years ago. But the arabs ate their spaghetti with raisins and cinnamon. Very different to the savory dishes of today, like this one. A solid block of dried fish eggs, tuna, in this case. Tony is so proud of his signature dish, he has named it s spagatoni. This is, like, whAt The romans used to make. Right. This is the secret to the flavor. This gives it that intensity. Was Sort Of like roman ketchup, Sort Of, maybe. Tony then adds lemon zest. Sicilian, of course, and an avalanche. On top, he adds salted, dehydrated, Fried Capers for crunch and dried bred crumbs ground down with anchovies, which is called molika. They didnt have cheese. This, in essence, took the place of cheese. Come on. Thats beautiful. I love it. Thank you. Thats so good. Oh, my god. Thats so good. Oh, my god the soul of your restaurant is taking really simple food of sicily and elevating it. Yes. It turns out tony is a culinary linguist. Jesus, i feel guilty. I just love this idea. I want to live with you. Tony created something that a lot of people arent able to create. He is able to take these traditional foods and elevate them. He loves where he comes from, and he just wants to make everything better. Its not a bad trait. Hey, you wanna get out of here . Weve got you. During expedia travel week, save 20 or more on thousands of hotels. 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So until recently, Wine Making like many professions here was controlled by men. But the Wine Maker i am about to meet is definitely bucking the trend. This is 38yearold arianna. So, tell me everything. Today, we are almost to the harvest. So i am going Checking Vineyards and see how the grape is going to be ripe. Right. What is the grape . A very common grape in sicily, isnt it . Yes. Yes, its the grape that you can find in all the highlands. So these two, they were the grape i wanted to work because indigenous. Not international. Sicily is one of the oldest wineproducing regions in the world. But its wine is often thought to be too bold, perhaps fine to blend with other wines. But nothing to be celebrated on its own. But arianna is said to be producing a more delicate vintage. Its almost ripe. I see if the seeds inside this brown or green, its still green. So what should it be . Should be brown. It should brown. Yeah. So now, needs other 15 days. Yeah. Its sweet. It is sweet. Its very sweet. Its actually sweeter than i thought it was going to be. Next to ariannas Vineyard Lie abandoned farms. A reminder that sicily has the Worstunemployment Rate in italy. Thousands of young Sicilians Have left the island in search of work. So you had a lot of friends who left. And where where did they go . What did they what did they end up doing . They move to milan to work in engineering, economy. That was not giving happiness and opportunities. So the farm ends up shutting down or the vineyard ends up shutting down . Yes. Arianna was inspired by the potential of the southern sicilian soil. In this vineyards, living a lot of perfume, flavor, acidity, and elegance to the wine. Her organic vines produce lower yields but fruitier aromas and her varieties are deeply rooted in the local land. So from here . I discovered the wine when i was 16 to 17. And i decide to to grow to start Wine Making. My idea, At The beginning, when i left, was not necessary to come back. But when i was in milan, i start to miss this land a lot. Uhhuh. You can see everything. You can also see the opportunities of this magic highland. You know . Right. Ariannas dedication is evident in every aspect of her business. So i decide to i always wondered how this was done. We do only by hand. This is for part of grape is 100 . From 2004 this was my first label so its my piece of art. Its your piece of art . Its beautiful. How many bottles do you make a year . 140,000. Wow. Do you want Taste Something with me . Yes, i thought youd never ask. This is a blend. Now, i am hardly a Wine Expert but i do know what i like. And that i like drinking it. This is delicious and i want to take a bath in it. Yes. Yes. A lot of Sicilian Wines are quite heavy but its light. Yeah, its nice. Yeah, its elegant. Yeah. And they dont think of sicilian wine. Ariannas impressive achievements in the Wine World come from her steely determination to choose the artisanal, over the industrial. Thats really good. My mom gave me very good values. Always telling me i could be able to do something. Yeah. And in a region where only a quarter of women have joined the workforce, her success is nothing short of revolutionary. Did you find it difficult, particularly as a young woman, to start a business . When i was 21, nobody was believing that i could. Work in the vineyards. Or have knowledge around agriculture. So, i remember, for me, the most difficult side was to convince people that work with me. After ten years of work, i start to see in the eyes of other people that what i was saying was correct. Yeah. Was amazing because i say, okay. Now, its your job. People believe in you. And theyre respecting theyre respecting. And their respect, because, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, thank you. Thank you so much. Ariannas wine is Ground Breaking and i have No Doubt that, in the hands of people like her, this land will certainly flourish. Hi sabrina Hi Jen hi. So youre the scientist here. 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Then the arabs and the normans arrived or conquered and these waves of migration created an incredibly beautiful city. It almost looks like new orleans. When you look down you see its like the French Quarter parts of it. But Palermos Beauty has come at a cost. This magnificent architecture is the legacy of wealthy Land Owners who built grand palazzos on the profits of their estates while their workers lived in poverty. When this system collapsed in the 19th century workers moved out of the countryside and into the city where poor and rich now live Side By side. Hidden behind this 400 year old door is a world ive never encountered ive been invited to dinner by a Real Life princess. Stanley. Princess Stefania Di Raffadali is one of the last surviving members of a sicilian royal family. Nice to see you. Princess stefania thank you very much. Im very happy to be here. The princess became a royal through marriage to a direct descendent of the norman conquest. This palace has been in her Husbands Family since the late 16th Century and is preserved like a living museum. How long were you married . Princess stefania we married in 57. Tucci and when did he pass away . Princess stefania just ten years ago. He loved this house very much. Tucci yeah i bet. Princess stefania so the only thing that i could do was to keep it and maintain it. Tucci well its absolutely beautiful. But as thrilled as i am to meet the princess, thats not the only reason i wanted to come here. Im on the hunt for the perfect timballo. Tucci look At That, so pretty. A baked mold of Pasta Or Rice with rich ingredients. Its a dish im obsessed with. Oh wow. Every family has a different way of making it. Princess stefania yes. And ive heard that maria, the princess chef, is a much Soughtafter Authority on timballo making. In my family, we have our own version of this dish. And its the centerpiece of a film i made called big night, back in the 1990s. So its macaroni. Maria macaroni. Princess stefania we had great fights because the old recipe was sugar but she doesnt like sweet things. Tucci she doesnt like it . Shes always saying too much sugar. Maria is making three very different versions of her timballo for dinner one with eggplant. One with rice. And this one with a pastry crust. The princesss son, bernardo, and her granddaughter, alessandra are joining us for this rather formal dinner, complete with a whitegloved butler. Thank you. So this is the first one, which is. Princess Stefania Eggplants with cheese. And pasta. Princess stefania aneletti. Tucci tell me about the tradition of timballo. Princess stefania they came from france. All the families of the aristocracy thought it was smart to have a french cook. They brought with them, for example, bechamel, that wasnt known here in italy because we had more arab cuisine. Is this like, what . How many years. Princess stefania 1856. 1850s. I find it fascinating that even this most sicilian of dishes has origins elsewhere. Yeah, its a huge amount of work. You need to make it with somebody. Yeah. This one is with rice, with bechamel, cheese and ham. Thats very french. Which is the best one for you . The eggplant. I could eAt The entire thing. Its very funny this. Tucci which one is yours . I prefer the rice one. Its certainly fitting to be eating this dish in such an opulent and unique setting. I feel like ive stepped into a Time Machine to experience the origins of timballo. So tell me how palermo has changed. Now it has become an international town. Everybodys coming. I did notice when i went out last night all these young people out and it was much more youthful than i thought it was going to be. I have a lot of friends that come from france or germany and ive seen people falling in love with palermo in a moving way. Theres something in the light of palermo. One of the reasons for Palermos Regeneration is the decline of the infamous cosa nostra. The mafia. And the connection between the mafia and the government is not as great as it once was . Yeah. Of the judges. Falcone and borsellino were judges who brought largescale legal action against the mafiosi, exposing the governments support for the mafia. They paid the ultimate price for their bravery. Both men were assassinated within months of Each Other in palermo in 1992. Tucci to change. Tucci that was a turning point. Yeah. Tucci right. Its been a very memorable evening. But palermos ancient aristocratic families are a dying breed, however much we might want to preserve the past. The heart of this beautiful city has moved elsewhere. To the young. To the new. And to the future. Every Day Unilever does good for communities across america. Every squeeze every smile every drop every style every spray every bubble every day dove, suave hellmanns donate everyday products to local communities. 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Its so simple all she does is dress the dish with a simple Salsa Verde which is made of parsley, capers, Olive Oil and bread soaked in vinegar. Her second dish is more elaborate. Rina is Making Sarde A Beccafico which literally means, figpecker sardines. But the figpecker is a bird, not a fish. For me this dish embodies the whole philosophy of sicilian cooking if you cant afford the food of the aristocracy, make do with what youve got. Thank you for having us. Its so good. With the Salsa Verde, its so simple. Its absolutely delicious. Little girl [speaks italian] [speaks italian] she just said the fish is good. Delicious. But the sea that has provided us with this feast is also the arena of an ongoing tragedy. Over the last six years it has claimed the lives of an estimated 18,000 migrants, fleeing poverty and war. As a fisherman, beppe has firsthand experience of this crisis. I just want to ask you about the immigrant situation, the migrant situation. 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Roberta we can come this way. Tucci ok. Robertas chef is making Pasta Alla Norma, a sicilian favorite made with eggplant. It was named after the opera, norma, composed by one of catanias most famous sons, vincenzo bellini. So Pasta Alla Norma is a very famous sicilian dish. And the recipe were Gonna Make Today is from your family . Eggplants are a Gift Left by the arab domination in the 9th century and in sicilian cooking they often replace meat because theyre cheaper and they grow everywhere. And then tomato . Tucci what kind of pasta are you using . Of course, homemade, fresh cut macaroni. What else . And it wouldnt be a Norma Without Salty Baked Ricotta on top. What do you think . I love it. I love it, its so simple and its really delicate. Thank you. Oh my god, its so good. For the next dish, robertas promised me something special. I never imagined myself or anyone else, eating donkey. Its a donkey. Yes. It was a donkey. Yes. Donkeys are a favorite around here. This is delicious. Because theyve always been hardworking companions for sicilian farmers. The meat is sweet. Yes. Believe it or not, its really good. Its like Beef Carpaccio but even sweeter. Tell me about the big change you made in your life. Tucci wow. Yeah. Tucci and the name of the restaurant, tell me the name of the restaurant. Tucci which means . Everything from sicily. Roberta everything. True to its name, the restaurant, like the house of a good friend, stays open all day. Which isnt usual in this part of the world. Most places close between lunch and dinner. Are sicilians different than other italians . Grazie, thank you. Like a true sicilian, robertas passion for life, family and for this island has found a perfect expression in her food. Its just extraordinary. Its some of the best food, probably, that ive ever had. 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Oh, delicious. Oh i cant wait. Its very exciting. Tonight theyre making a fusion of african dishes. Joy this one is called nigerian fried rice. Wow. Joys special rice is being served alongside Spicy Chicken flavored with curry, ginger and rosemary. Oh my gosh. Mustafa yeah, yeah. For you. Tucci plantains. And plantain. Its my favorite. A type of banana fried in coconut oil. I can see that nigerian and italian hospitality have a lot in common. Oh thats wonderful. Thats delicious. Emmanuella and mimmo took mustafa under their wing shortly after he arrived in sicily six years ago. He was only sixteen when he left his family to make the dangerous journey across the mediterranean. How did they arrive . With a small boat. In the main beach of catania, which is called playa. It was the 10th Of August in 2013. Tucci how big was the boat . The boat stopped. It hit a sand bar. Yes. Yeah. They started walking. Just in front of the shore. It was terrible. They couldnt swim. Tucci this is the thing so many people imagine that people leave their countries to come and take advantage when, in fact, theyre just coming because they live in fear. Joy yeah. Theyre incredibly poor. Joy they need somewhere safe as well. Yes, they need somewhere safe and they want to work hard. Yeah. To have a good life. Yeah. So when people say that we are good because we help them, but i always say its not true, because they are helping us in finding a reason to give a sense to this moment, you know, thAt The world is living. So we have to thank them. The story of immigration seems to have changed very little over the years. And one of its most beautiful consequences is the imprint it leaves on the cuisine. The spices that are part of all this, from egypt, have been in italy for centuries. Its what created Italian Food. Its why Italian Food in sicily is completely different than the Italian Food in piemonte or in rome. Well, i really want to thank you so much. 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