and i want to get to know the region that my family left behind all those years ago. is this jogging your memory at all? that s a long time ago. 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. caught between a rock and the sea, the calabrese are notoriously tough. but this is a place where southern hospitality is a way of life. oh, my gosh, look at the size of it. you should open a restaurant. and in this poor region. all right. every meal is a celebration. oh, wow. there s like a million different flavors in there . calabria sits in the toe of the boot of italy, connected to basilicata in the north and separated from sicily in the south only by the narrow strait of messina. it s a region of rugged landscapes, dramatic mountain ranges, and some 500 miles of incredible coastline. it doesn t have that infrastructure. it s st
sole owner of 20th century fox. wasn t one of his children to succeed him, but he doesn t say when, who and how. it s going to have to be fought out between them. two minutes to the official start of the race. there are the boats. the race in australia, it s a big deal. it s a kind of their super bowl. lachlan had done a lot of sailing and he eagerly signed up for the 98 race. 54th race. he sailed onboard the boat sayonara. up on the high side there, getting out. it was a beautiful day. and not long after the race began there was a line of clouds. like a black wall. there were wind gusts of close to 100 miles per hour. and the waves were enormous. is there anything you fear in life? you always worry, i think, about the unexpected that could happen. it could bring all this tumbling down. the boats would head into the waves and they d stort of climb up, and then they d go launching off the top of the wave and hurtling down. certainly one has to remain
this is one of my favorite places in the world. but you will never guess where it is. i will give you a hint. there are more italians here than in bologna or pisa. the ancient roman side is the last frontier. it s a place built on tradition and innovation. and whatever you ve heard, the food here is incredible. that s so good. i don t even want to talk anymore, i just want to eat it. welcome to london. i m stanley tucci, i m italian on both sides and i ve been 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. by population alone, london could be italy s 21st region. in england now you can go to these restaurants, sicilian, venetian, in the old days it was all italian food. my friend andre is one of half 1 million italians who have chosen to make london their home. [ speaking non-english ] so why is it here, that for 150 years, italians have found the freedom to create something wonderful?
we are getting on it. that is exciting. you can see the tracks were the other cars will go. i love trains but i like the idea that the train goes on a boat. i think we should get a car on top of the sentence have a horse on top of the car. i am stanley tucci and i am fascinated with my italian heritage and i am traveling across italy to discover how the food is as unique as the people and their past. sicily is a mythical land of contrasts. fire and water. dry and fertile. refined and rough. [speaking non-english] how did one of the poorest regions in europe create the richest of cuisines? get ready. this is delicious. every mouthful here is a eruption of flavor. before i arrive in sicily there is one delicious food ritual i have to experience. it is a tradition to eat these while you are on a boat passing this statue. these beautiful little cones with rice, saffron, peas and meat. the story goes that the arabs brought these two sicily in the 9th century, handr
there s a story that goes when god created the world, he took all the left over bits and wanted to make something beautiful with them. so he made sardinia. and there s something to that. sardinia is really an island of bits and pieces in the best possible way. each local community is like an island of its own with widely varying geography, languages. you also caught lobster? yes. and food. wow. put together, you get a region with a ferocious independent streak. women have the power here. cheers. a little bit italian and a little bit something else entirely. man, it s incredible. i m stanley tucci. i m fascinated by my italian heritage so 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. oh, he s between my legs. sardinia is italy s wild west. [bleep] it! and although they respect tradition, things here are never dull. argh! out here, nothing stands in the way o