Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Chef Borghese begins to give out the scores. One by one, the contestants present their dishes, and even though Max was a bit awkward at one point, the Jams manage well. But never think you have victory in your pocket until the end!
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Chef Borghese tastes and evaluates the main courses and The Best end in a tie. Everything is left to play for with the desserts. Who knows if Joy's grandmother's recipe will be the winning one.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
And finally Borghese announces the verdict: the Jams win! The boys are on cloud nine while Melissa takes it badly.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
After the victory, the Jams must decide where to put the trophy and Joy has a great idea. Alice and Max, with an excuse, move away from Joy and Stefano who finally get closer to each other.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
This song by young indie/pop singer Joan Thiele explores fear, insecurity and self-sabotage, inviting us to defend our ideas and follow our instincts.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
An animated video showing how the Juventus have won an amazing thirty-one championships.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
When does an artist become an artist? Join Gualtiero Marchesi in his musings on art and the art of cooking in this new chapter.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
In this segment, cooking is seen as an art form, starting with a white plate as the artist's canvas...
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Some artists, including Gualtiero Marchesi, talk about the past: horse-drawn carts for delivering produce, artists exchanging news from abroad before the widespread use of telephones, tripe for breakfast, still-life paintings reflecting the food of the times and its preparation. There's even talk of the desire to eat paintings! Buon appetito!
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Gualtiero Marchesi talks about the chef as an artist, and how different chefs can be recognized by their distinctive artistic styles. In defending the choice of simple, genuine food, he goes on to talk about the art of slicing, and how it used to be "performed" right in the dining room.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? That's what they say--but to Gualtiero Marchesi, that's not necessarily so. Sometimes beautiful is beautiful, period. As we've seen in other segments, cooking as an art form is a topic that's close to this chef's heart.
Difficulty:
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.
Difficulty:
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.
Difficulty:
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.
Difficulty:
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.
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