i really have very few memories of it. i ve been dreaming of coming back since i was a boy. i don t remember it being this green. it s a place as troubled as beautiful will you it means something more to me. it s my ancestry homeland and i m italian on both sides traveling across it lee to discover how the food in the 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. caught between a rock and the sea, they are notoriously tough. you should open a restaurant. [ laughter ] and in this poor region, every meal is a celebration. out, wow. celebrate. it sits and separated from sicily in the south only by the narrow straight. it s a region of rugged landscapes, dramatic mountain ranges and some 500 miles of incredible coastline. it doesn t have the infrastructure. a lot of abandoned buildings and poverty and corruption. it s unfortunate. like millions of calabrians. my grandparents migrated from this region with nothing but the clothes on their backs so i m hea
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
i don t remember it being this green. it s absolutely beautiful. it s a wild and rugged region steeped in mystery and myth, a place that s as troubled as it is beautiful. but calabria means something more to me. it s my ancestral homeland. 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 basil
oh, wow. steep. is this okay, here we are, finally. i had no idea it was that far. so i ve just made my way up thousands of steps to this place, castle brown, which is in portofino, which is in liguria. and liguria is a crescent right on the coast of italy, bordering tuscany and france. they ll carry me out of here on a stretcher, but i don t mind because the food is amazing. 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. the rugged environment has made the ligurians tough and unafraid of a challenge. so you call this? le guide le cocho, because everything here must be done by hand. centuries of wrestling their food out of a small amount of land have given these people a wisdom that s right for our times. the harshness of their region has made them inventive. oh my god. liguria gave us pesto. it s really good. th
city of togas and gladiators, power and intrigue, empire and ruin, and of course la dolce vita - the good life. 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. the famous ancients of rome once ruled the world. -but i m here to discover how it s the food of ordinary romans that has conquered our hearts. but i m going to warn you, if you re on a low carb diet beware. you re going to see a lot of pasta in this show. i mean, like, a lot of it. like, a lot. i ve been visiting rome for decades. its beauty and history still leave me breathless but sometimes it s difficult to find a good meal if you don t know where to look. rome is situated in lazio, a region sometimes overlooked in favour of its grander gastronomic neighbours like tuscany and umbria. but lazio has fed rome for centuries and every part of the sheep and pigs raised here is put to use i