La storia di Gualtiero Marchesi, considerato il fondatore della "nuova cucina italiana", e a parere di molti, lo chef italiano più noto nel mondo. La sua figura spicca per originalità nel pur variegato mondo della cucina.

In Italian families, the role of women has always been one of fundamental importance. Women were able to create wonderful meals with humble ingredients, but as talented as they might have been, their place was in the home, running the family, not travelling abroad learning haute cuisine.

Artist Nanda Vigo, a friend of Gualtiero Marchesi's, tells us what it was like to be an artist back in those days, and how Marchesi was involved.