Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Federica continues working on the dough, adding various ingredients, and making sure that the dough "meshes" without breaking apart. Finally she will shape the dough into the form of a dove.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Federica demonstrates the final stages of making the Colomba. Once ready, she cuts it open to show us what it looks like on the inside, with its particular consistency.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Arianna takes us around Florence. In this part, we walk from the main train station to the famous San Lorenzo market, where it's time to find some lunch.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Arianna is still a bit hungry, so she looks around for something else to eat. After lunch, she takes us downstairs to the actual market.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Arianna shows us the outside market near San Lorenzo, and we discover where the train station got its long name Santa Maria Novella. Arianna also gives us some important information about how to get to and from the airports of Pisa and Florence.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Today Arianna takes us back to Florence. This time we go to a high point on the southern side of the Arno river where we get a view of the whole city in all its splendor.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Arianna takes us down to one of the most popular and busiest parts of the city. Many areas are primarily zone pedonali (pedestrian areas) but you still have to be very careful.
Difficulty: Beginner
Italy
Arianna explains, in simple Italian, and step by step, her own personal recipe for a pasta dish: Farfalle Primavera. Farfalle is a type of pasta shaped like a farfalla (butterfly). Primavera is the season between winter and summer.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
Arianna, born and raised in Tuscany, will make panzanella, one of her favorite dishes. The main ingredient is quite humble: stale bread!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Arianna prepares the ingredients for the panzanella and stresses that this recipe is easily adaptable to personal tastes. You can't really go wrong. It's also a great recipe for anyone to make while vacationing in Italy, since it's so simple.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Arianna finally finishes making panzanella [Tuscan bread salad], which she then enjoys eating while sitting outside under the Tuscan sun.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Antonio Cannavacciuolo shows us how to make a very elegant pasta dish with zucchini and fish. The cooking video is an ad for Voiello pasta, in this case mezze maniche which means "short sleeves."
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Antonino is in the kitchen with Michele from Eboli preparing a pasta dish with provola, eggplant and red mullet.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Today Antonino cooks special, grooved spaghetti, with garlic, oil and hot peppers. It's a classic pasta recipe, but our chef adds some extra ingredients to give it a different twist.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Antonino shares a new and easy recipe with grape or cherry tomatoes, buffalo stracciatella, and shrimp. But what makes the dish special is the special pasta: Penne with ridges both inside and out.
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