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Tartufo bianco d'Alba - Come sceglierlo e come gustarlo

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Mario Aprile, president of the Trifolao Association in Piedmont, gives us some tips about the characteristics of white truffles: their growth, the ideal way of storing them and of course some excellent recipes.

Olio Extra Vergine Pugliese - Introduzione e cenni storici View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Advanced Advanced

Italy

Raffaele, a producer of extra virgin olive oil from Apulia, tells us about the ancient origins of his olive groves. Many of the trees are centuries old, some are even over a thousand years old, and continue to produce excellent oil.

Napoli - L'antica pizzeria Brandi View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Advanced Advanced

Italy Neapolitan

Pizzeria Brandi is an historic pizzeria in Naples, dating back to the seventeen seventies. Pizza Margherita, named after the Savoy queen Margherita, was invented at the pizzeria in the eighteen eighties.

L'isola del gusto - Il macco di Aurora - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Agata and Catena have stopped at the Catania outdoor market to do some food shopping. Catena gets to taste some of the delicious local specialties.

L'isola del gusto - Pasta alla New Norma - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy Sicilian

Catena and Agata relax in the garden of Agata's baglio [Sicilian architectural form with buildings arranged around a courtyard]. They're getting ready to cook typical Sicilian dishes that Catena will include in a cookbook she's writing.

L'arte della cucina - Terre d'Acqua - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate 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.

L'arte della cucina - Terre d'Acqua - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy

World famous chef, Gualtiero Marchesi talks about his career, his search for a total cuisine, an authentic cuisine.

L'arte della cucina - Terre d'Acqua - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate 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.

L'arte della cucina - Terre d'Acqua - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate 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.

L'arte della cucina - Terre d'Acqua - Part 5 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate 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.

L'arte della cucina - Terre d'Acqua - Part 6 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Pre-war and wartime cooking, when fuel for cooking was in short supply, made raw recipes come to the fore.

L'arte della cucina - Terre d'Acqua - Part 7 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate 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.

L'arte della cucina - Terre d'Acqua - Part 8 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate 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.

L'arte della cucina - Terre d'Acqua - Part 9 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate 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.

L'arte della cucina - Terre d'Acqua - Part 10 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy

One thing that has made Gualtiero Marchesi become such a great in modern Italian cuisine has been his ability to create new dishes by rearranging, in an innovative way, traditional dishes of every region of Italy, each different in taste and quality.

L'arte della cucina - Terre d'Acqua - Part 11 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy

Into the fifties, many Italians would stop at trucker restaurants, knowing they'd eat huge portions for little money. With prosperity, Italians began to search for authentic and higher quality foods. One of Marchesi's signature dishes is the open tortello, a deconstructed filled pasta.

L'arte della cucina - Terre d'Acqua - Part 12 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy

After the war, when eating had to do with survival, tastes started to change and to branch out towards different regions. Now, once again cucina tipica (traditional local cooking) or prodotti tipici (local products) have practically become magic words.

L'arte della cucina - Terre d'Acqua - Part 13 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Advanced Advanced

Italy

"Starvation gastronomy " describes the humble origins of Italian cuisine. Inventing recipes based on whatever was available in the territory resulted in regional dishes that have become famous today.

L'arte della cucina - Terre d'Acqua - Part 14 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy

"Food is culture." What do we mean by this? Cultural historian, Massimo Montanari, and world-famous chef, Gualtiero Marchesi share their views.

L'arte della cucina - Terre d'Acqua - Part 15 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Italy

As a fitting end to this journey into Italian gastronomy, Gualtiero Marchesi shares with us the recipe for one of his most special risottos, using his own innovative techniques while keeping with tradition.

L'arte della cucina - La Prima Identitá - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Advanced Advanced

Italy

We open a new chapter in L’arte della cucina (the Art of Cooking). Here the focus is on Milan, and the fruit and vegetable market where it all starts.

L'arte della cucina - La Prima Identitá - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Advanced Advanced

Italy

Gualtiero Marchesi talks about the hotel/restaurant his parents opened in Milan. He describes what it was like back in the Fifties.

L'arte della cucina - La Prima Identitá - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Advanced Advanced

Italy

Our chef tells how his passion for cooking was born, and what books he used as examples.

L'arte della cucina - La Prima Identitá - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Advanced Advanced

Italy

Gualtiero Marchesi has been described as growing up in a pot. While training under the eye of his mother, he began to specialize in tavola calda e fredda (hot and cold food service) which, usually connected with a bar, offers quality ready-to-eat dishes. La Cucina Italiana (Italian Cooking) is a periodical that's been on newsstands since 1929. Paola Ricas, who was an editor there, shares a special moment in its history.

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