silks, spices, ideas, and money. lots of it. the venetians learn between earth and water. it shaped their character, salty, wise and ingenious. i ve never seen anyone do that before. i m stanley tucci. i m italian on both sides and i ll traveling across italy to see how the food in each of the 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. may i? thank you. how are you? good. surrounded by wetland, these people are hunters you re a great shot. and gatherers. it s perfectly balanced. wow! the sea brought the outside world to the venetians and fed their am tppetites. so many different cultures right in a bowl. venice is the capital of the veneto region. it is flat, fertile and damp. in the west by the dolomites and in the east by the adriatic sea. 117 islands sit in this salty bay. the lagoon. venice is the largest. no food is grown here. it all comes in from the outside. i want to eat what venetians eat and the places they go to eat it in. a friend from here says i ca
the subway, you don t feel like you re in paris. no. the paris that you see. it s like the first time i went to brooklyn. this is new york? it s the rhythm and the energy of the place. that s fantastic. that s when you know you ve left the main strip of paris when you start seeing signs that say i met god. she s black . not going to find that next to the tuileries, not going to happen. i m colton mccoy. raised and educated in d.c., raised in kitchens around the world. i m a nomad, driven to move in and out of different culture, different worlds. to celebrate diversity by embracing what makes us both unique and the same. after all, we carry our travels with us to the next destination. that s what life is all about. let s do this. ah, paris. ah, paris. it s hard not to fall in love. when i first visited this city, i was 26 years old. i was studying for the master sommelier exam and had a decade of cooking classic cuisine under my belt. like so many before me, i c
friends, probably after gorging on campania s other great contribution to the world, pizza. wherever we are, the food of this place can t help but bring us together. thanks for everything, you re amazing. thank you. cheers. cheers. cheers. cin, cin. [slow piano music] [upbeat music] so bologna. i haven t been here for a very long time. very happy to be back. the people of bologna have been hit hard by the covid pandemic. but i ve arrived during a brief moment of normality when lockdown has been lifted restaurants are filling up and masks are optional outside. bologna is an ancient university town the oldest in the western world brought to life by students flaunting their youth. this bread is an aphrodisiac. i m all alone in a hotel. why would i want to do that? this place is rich and its food is famous. some bold souls whisper that it s the best in italy. massimo: smell, smell, smell! the smell is unbelievable. i m stanley tucci. i m italian on both sides and i m trav
[upbeat music] it s hard to believe that just a few months ago the first wave of covid-19 had emptied the streets of naples and italy was in lockdown. thankfully, i ve arrived during a brief moment of normality. restaurants are open and masks are not required outside, and we ll be sticking to the local rules. napoli is a truly thrilling city. the second you arrive you re engulfed by a magnificent chaos and there s no point in fighting it. people here do things their own way. take the energy of new york, mix in the gritty elegance of new orleans, add 3,000 years of history and cook it all up in the heat of the world s most famous volcano. that is napoli. 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. this place may be looked down on as the poverty-stricken underdog of italy. but the people who live in this region have their own way of doing t
mariupol is in a disaster. food, water and ammunition growing more scarce by the hour. hundreds of women and children hiding inside a battered and burnt out fortress. no agreement on evacuation corridors out of mariupol because the ukrainians fear they will be attacked by russian forces. this morning disturbing satellite images as well show rows of mass graves near mariupol. russian soldiers dumped bodies into ditches to cover their crimes. the mayor of mariupol calling it evidence of war crimes. i spoke with the mary and he said these images are painful to see. a once blossoming city now reduced to rubble. he said more than 20,000 people, 20,000 people have been killed there. we will hear from him directly just ahead. meanwhile, president biden says the war is now entering what he called a critical window. he announced a new 800 million ukraine weapons package, the second one in just over a week. the new package focused on heavy artillery, howitzers and drones. president