Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Giovanni Ballarini talks about what the kitchens of Italian restaurants were like in the fifties and sixties. To make sense of how he describes them, see Yabla lesson Parole Alterate - Modifying Words to Create New Ones, as well as video lesson Marika spiega: Parole alterate. Gianni Mura talks about some of the trends found on restaurant menus today.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Personal relations between Luca and Lara may be tenuous, but where work is concerned, they're a great team.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Luca and Lara find Sally at the supermarket and question her. Ginevra explains the results of the autopsy to Luca, but there's still plenty of mystery surrounding this case.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
There's a meeting to report new information on the case, and Luca asks a very unusual favor of Lara. You won't want to miss the scene.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy Neapolitan
The Naples Christmas market from up close. It's a rowdy scene, and there's a lot going on all at once. The famous horn shaped talisman called the cornetto is taken quite seriously as well as other instruments for keeping away the malocchio (evil eye). For more information about the cornetto, and the three r's referred to in the video, see this article in Italian.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Toscani obtains some precious information, but as usual, he's not so quick on the draw to know how important it is. His wife, Sardi, has gotten handy with the software to crack the cell phone. Lara and Luca will be going to two different and unusual places of entertainment in the evening: Luca to a country music motorcycle joint, and Lara to the circus.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Luca, posing as a John Wayne type, goes to the country music bar, and meets up, quite unexpectedly, with someone he had just met the day before.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Marchesi talks about how important his travels in Europe and in Asia had been in enriching his menu, and confirming the path he was following.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Let the show begin! We're at the circus, and the ringmaster looks familiar to one of the women in the audience. Meanwhile, Manara has un unexpected encounter as he leaves the nightspot.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Marchesi had plenty of artist friends, and that meant late nights, while having a restaurant meant getting up at the crack of dawn to go to the market. How did he do it?
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
A pleasant evening at the circus gets interrupted when Lara gets a phone call and rushes off to the hospital.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lara keeps her promise to the doctor, but in the process falls victim to some gossip among her colleagues at headquarters.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Documentary in three parts, of the famous Italian car race La Mille Miglia (the one thousand miles) with historical shots of some of the greatest drivers in the world and their cars. Fasten your seatbelts for the first part of three.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy Neapolitan
Based on a true story, this film takes place in Scampia, a poor, crowded suburb just outside Naples. Having one of the highest rates of unemployment in Italy, the Camorra gets its way with many of the kids from this neighborhood, but Gianni also saves many kids by getting them involved in judo.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Marchesi's friends provide details about their long-term relationships with the celebrated chef.
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