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Enel intervista - Tiziano Ferro - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Tiziano Ferro starts off his "eco-tour" sponsored by the Italian electric company, Enel. He suggests small ways in which each of us can save on energy.

Maurizio - Mi presento

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy Abruzzese

Maurizio is a young student from the province of Pescara, going to school (university) in Rome. He tells us a little bit about himself, and his life in Rome. This is an excellent opportunity to compare how Italian treats tenses with respect to English, especially the English present perfect, and present continuous.

A scuola di musica - con Alessio - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy Tuscan

What are the names of the notes in Italian? Alessio, a music teacher from Pisa, starts off his music lessons by explaining how these names originated in a Tuscan monastery in the 11th century.

Alessandra Mastronardi - Non smettere di sognare

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

After the huge success of the television series, I Cesaroni, Alessandra Mastronardi is the star of Don’t Stop Dreaming, where she plays the part of an aspiring dancer. In an interview for starlit.tv! she talks about the very different personalities of the two characters, as well as her own.

L'arte della cucina - I Luoghi del Mondo - Part 16 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Italians are very attached to tradition. In fact, although eating habits have changed, many traditional dishes, rather than being discarded, have been transformed. This means more variety and smaller portions, so that a diner will eat more than just a plateful of pasta.

L'arte della cucina - I Luoghi del Mondo - Part 15 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

From la nouvelle cuisine, which at its beginnings was reserved for fancy restaurants and connoisseurs and was looked upon with some scepticism, important lessons could be learned about cooking methods and the quality of the food itself.

L'arte della cucina - I Luoghi del Mondo - Part 14 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

The beginnings of La Nouvelle Cuisine (French: the new cuisine) are likened to the Impressionists, abandoning mythical themes, and painting directly from nature. La Nouvelle Cuisine focused on the quality of the food itself. Marchesi was in tune with this idea, and at the same time, knew he'd found true artistry in the Troisgros brothers in Dijon, when he went to work with them in the late sixties.

L'arte della cucina - I Luoghi del Mondo - Part 13 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

What Gualtiero Marchesi learned from the Troisgros brothers in Roanne, was, above all, the importance of simplicity.

L'arte della cucina - I Luoghi del Mondo - Part 12 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Gualtiero Marchesi had the opportunity to witness the beginnings of "nouvelle cuisine" in France before it arrived in Italy. The Troisgros family, with whom he worked, were famed for their innovative cooking. Their restaurant was in an area with no gastronomic legacy, and they had to rely on their skill, rather than on characteristic local ingredients.

L'arte della cucina - I Luoghi del Mondo - Part 11 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Alberto Capatti talks about his first culinary experiences as an Italian in France, not knowing how to choose wine, etc. Gualtiero Marchesi talks about how he sought to take the elements he admired in French cuisine and apply them to his own style of cooking in Italy.

L'arte della cucina - I Luoghi del Mondo - Part 10 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Alberto Capatti shares his memories of the grand restaurants of Paris in the sixties. Velvet curtains, low lighting, fires in the fireplaces, ten kinds of cheese — a far cry from what would become known as "nouvelle cuisine."

L'arte della cucina - I Luoghi del Mondo - Part 9 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Gualtiero Marchesi talks about his experiences in Paris, learning from the chefs there. Actually, he already knew much of what was taught to him, because he'd had chefs in his family who were well-versed in both every day and fancy fare. He, on the other hand, was looking for something new and different.

L'arte della cucina - I Luoghi del Mondo - Part 8 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Giovanni Ballarini talks about Paris being the capital of haute cuisine, and about the birth of bourgeois cuisine at the time of the French Revolution. Chef Mariasole Capodanno talks about her experiences, as a young girl, with real French cuisine and how even the presentation was so amazing. Neapolitan and Sicilian cooking came out of the work of chefs who had been employed during the reign of the Bourbons, especially in Naples and Sicily, where the chefs were called Monsù, or Monzù a corruption of the French, Monsieur.

L'arte della cucina - I Luoghi del Mondo - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Eugenio Medagliani, expert on the world of Italian cuisine, talks about the days when Gualtiero Marchesi wasn't yet very well known, but refused to make pasta dishes. He describes a trip they made together through the desert from L.A. to Las Vegas where Gualtiero started getting inspired about pasta.

L'arte della cucina - I Luoghi del Mondo - Part 6 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Italy

Art critic Gillo Dorfles talks about Milan in the fifties, sixties and seventies, and how, thanks to the war and to fascism, it developed as it did. Gualtiero Marchesi talks about the high standards of his cuisine, and some of the personalities who frequented his restaurant.

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