Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
We learn how and when rice was introduced into Italy. It first appeared in the fourteen hundreds, brought to Lombardy from Spain; and to Sicily from the Arabic world.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The video weaves together Marchesi recounting a story about his first love when he was twelve, and a critic discussing Artusi and Marchesi's debt to popular cuisine.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Water, earth, fish, animals, rice: these were the fundamental elements of Italian cuisine in the pre-war and war years, elements that profoundly influenced the culinary creations of one of the most famous chefs in Italy, Gualtiero Marchesi.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Pre-war and wartime cooking, when fuel for cooking was in short supply, made raw recipes come to the fore.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Gualtiero Marchesi recalls the early years of his friendship with Aldo Calvi, when the would hunt and fish together along the Po.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Gualtiero Marchesi recalls his childhood, living along the banks of the River Po. His memories are as diverse as milking cows and seeing German bombers taking out bridges.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Claudio Capotondi discusses his marble and travertine sculpture entitled PortaRoma, created in 2000.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
"Innercore" is the title, inspired by an article in the New York Times, of Claudio Capotondi's masterpiece. He talks about the significance of the sculpture, and about the special kind of stone he used to make it.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Claudio Capotondo talks about the tools and techniques that enable him to transform a block of marble or porphyry (a kind of igneous rock) into a work of art.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Our famous chef talks about the town where he spent much of his childhood, San Zenone al Po, where two rivers meet, and where flooding has always been part of life.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
World famous chef, Gualtiero Marchesi talks about his career, his search for a total cuisine, an authentic cuisine.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The artist takes to the fascinating world of the marble quarries where he chooses the blocks of marble which he will transform into works of art.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Terre d'acqua means water-lands. We are talking about the once marshy area which has now become the fertile Po valley. Gualtiero Marchesi is considered to be the founder of the new Italian cuisine, and is perhaps the best known Italian chef in the world. He begins telling us his story.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The Naples soccer team is the most popular team in Southern Italy, having won a very high number of games. They have an estimated four million fans worldwide, many of whom come to this shop to buy jerseys.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Claudio Capotondi, sculptor, takes us into his "thinking room" and talks about the process of taking a block of marble and turning it into a work of art.
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