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 new york, mix in new orleans, add 3,000 years of history, and cook it all up in the heat of the world s most famous vokt. 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 path. in the south, we are very used to fight. this place may be looked down as the poverty stricken underdog of italy but the people who live in this region have their own way of doing things. for me, this is a philosophy. this is our style, our tradition. they ve given the world it favorite food. pizza america. just don t forget where it was invented . if pieced was going to be born anywhere, it would be here in naples. the city is hot
historic heart of the city. for hundreds of year, the poorest people in naples were packed into these minarrow streets. terrible sanitation meant that your life could be snatched from you at any moment from the brutal epidemic of their age, cholera. people really got scared. because it was an epidemic, like more or less like the covid-19 virus, so you could transmit it very easily. right, right. cholera was spread by water and by food. so people here cooked pieces of bread in hot oil. so the frying is simpler. it s simpler, it s easy. you can get a very good point of hygiene, because, you know, frying really sterilizes everything. yes. it was probably one of the few times in life that frying something might actually have been healthy for you. so this is where we re going to get fried pizza? all right, ciao!