Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Truffle hunting is a peculiar activity, one that requires the collaboration of a dog. And you never want to let on how many truffles you find, even if you are friends with other truffle hunters.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
How are the harvested truffles divided up? And besides being sold whole, how are they further processed? Paolo and Stefania tell us the story.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Italy is known for its pasta. The Zampino family was able to give new life to an old flour mill from the sixteen hundreds and turn it into a productive plant where they produce pasta keeping to traditional methods.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
To make pasta, only 2 ingredients are strictly necessary: semola (durum wheat flour) and water. But atmospheric conditions make all the difference.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Donato Brenca has been making cheese for about 20 years, and although he strives to make better and better cheese, he sticks to the same method he has always employed.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
One reason mozzarella di bufala (buffalo mozzarella) is so delicious is because the animals are treated with utmost respect. They are milked when they are physiologically ready!
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Tuscan
From the heart of Tuscany, famous for its olive oil, Tuscans Lisetta and Alessio talk about how olive oil is made.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
A small town in Tuscany has adopted an unusual method of garbage collection! It's a way of integrating workers with special needs into the work force, and allowing them to have more than just a job. A video by Moira Volterrani
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Italians have adopted the English term "coworking" to denote a group of independent professionals working in the same space. In her short documentary Moira Volterrani takes us to visit The Talent Garden (Tag) of Pisa.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
In this sustainable "eco-village" everyone does their part: people, animals, sun, and rain. The pay off is a non-monetary kind of wealth. A documentary by Moira Volterrani.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Tuscan
Natale tends his vegetable garden and tries to save his strawberry plants from the neighbor's chickens.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy Tuscan
Natale is proud of his fava beans, which he plans to harvest in time for the holiday family gathering on May first. Other featured produce includes artichokes and wild asparagus.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
A fun way to get some insight into the Italian constitution—an animated illustration of some of its main points. Turri Scandurra: “La Costituzione per tutti” (The constitution for everyone).
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Documentary in three parts, of the famous Italian car race La Mille Miglia (the one thousand miles) with historical shots of some of the greatest drivers in the world and their cars. Fasten your seatbelts for the first part of three.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
This historical footage of the Mille Miglia [thousand miles] car race from Brescia to Rome and back includes a cameo appearance by Ingrid Bergman.
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