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
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 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
i really have very few memories of it. i ve been dreaming of coming back to calabria since i was a boy. 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 di
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
grazie. okay, so what year? 1889? my father, 1889. okay, 89. 89. wait a minute. come over here, stan. there you go. stanislao. yep. ooh, wow. scarpellino, that was his mother? no, no, no. no, scarpellino was your vocation. yeah. stone carver. stone carver. oh, a stone carver. so he was born in 89. yeah. when did he come to america? 1904. so that makes him 15, 16 years old. did he ever come back to see his parents? once. they never came to america? so he only basically only saw his mother one more time. that s right. from the time he was 15, 16. it s amazing, isn t it? yeah, yeah, it s incredible. and a lot of immigrants didn t. i know. i know. for a culture that is so