Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy
In this video Sofia and Edoardo show us how to prepare breaded vegetables the way children like them. Naturally, they allow their mother to help them. Video provided by uChefpuntoit.
Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy Lucano
Milena is at the supermarket and she shows us some products that are commonly eaten by Italians, such as wine, cheese, milk, eggs and bread. Have fun practicing with Milena!
Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy
Clarissa, Sofia and Edoardo are in the kitchen and they are going to prepare pasta with zucchini for us. For this recipe, they will also need the help of their mother, who will do the cutting. Video provided by uChefpuntoit.
Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy
A chef demonstrates the preparation of the delicious and rapidly assembled Lamelle di Capesante, a sliced scallop carpaccio.
Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy
The chef shows us how how to prepare a simple and delicious dessert in just a few steps. The ingredients are: chocolate balls [hollow], custard sauce, whipped cream and berries. And the Chocolate balls are ready to be eaten.
Difficulty:
Adv Beginner
Italy
Marco Lombardo, the chef of a well-known restaurant in the Langhe (a hilly area in Piedmont), demonstrates how to prepare a typical dish of the area: Eggs en cocotte with white Alba truffles.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Sandra now lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in North Carolina. She is still working and loves it. She and Marika discuss some Italian expressions about the value of work and about how their friendship has lasted all these years.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
The story of Sandra continues, a restaurateur in Miami, chosen to cook at a White House event for Barack Obama. Between initial disbelief and rigorous security checks, the experience becomes a source of great pride for her. The story also highlights the value of friendship and the importance of reinventing oneself in life.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
The story of Sandra continues, a Tuscan chef who emigrated to the United States, who established herself in Miami with authentic Tuscan cuisine. Thanks to her continuous ties with Italy, she keeps her roots alive, even cooking for Barack Obama.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
During an important evening at the Washington, D.C. restaurant where Sandra was the dining room manager, the usual chef didn't show, and Sandra found herself having to manage the kitchen as well. She had no experience there, and so it was somewhat of a disaster. The episode pushed her to learn, however: Thanks to the help of an expert cook, she began an apprenticeship, acquired skills, and started building a career bringing Italian cuisine to the United States.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Sandra tells about her initial difficulties in the United States and how, realizing she wouldn't get very far without knowing English, she learned it on her own. Starting from a humble job in the restaurant industry, she quickly grew professionally.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Sandra tells about her immigration experience to the United States in 1979. At first, without knowing English well and without technology, she faces many difficulties in daily life and in finding work. Starting from a simple job as a coat check attendant in a restaurant, she slowly begins a new life that would later lead her to become a chef.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Sandra was born in the province of Pisa and tells the story of her personal transformation. She begins at the beginning, when she was a young girl growing up in Cascina, a town near Pisa. But she wasn't happy and felt like a fish out of water.
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:
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.
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