Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
The sixties and seventies were magical years for Milan. Fashion design started undergoing important changes, and people started talking about food!
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Fashion designer Chiara Boni talks about Milan in the seventies. Gualtiero Marchesi talks about combining tradition with innovation in both his art and his kitchen. Gastronomer Eugenio Medagliani talks about how at the beginning, people understood very little about this "nouvelle cuisine."
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Gualtiero put some very fancy lamps in his new restaurant, but it stayed almost empty for a good while. He didn't give up, nor did he stoop to using the techniques a New York restaurant used when it opened.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Marchesi completely upsets the traditional concepts of cooking, and many think he's just too weird in his combinations and cooking times.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Although Marchesi earned his first Michelin star quite early in the game, he never lost his enthusiasm for creating new dishes, for experimenting.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Gualtiero Marchesi's restaurant was more akin to an art exhibit, than a place where you can get something to eat.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
Marchesi's friends and clients talk about Milan in the 1980s and how the fashion business helped it become such a cosmopolitan city. Reference is made to Florence's "Sala Bianca," [White Hall] in the Pitti Palace, where fashion shows took place before Milan became synonymous with high fashion.
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: Advanced
Italy
Marchesi's friends provide details about their long-term relationships with the celebrated chef.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy
One thing that was special about Marchesi's cuisine was that rather than looking abroad for exotic ingredients, his dishes were works of art made with local, ordinary materials.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy Milanese
Marchesi shows us a delicious dessert made from leftover panettone. Panettone is an Italian fruitcake from the Lombardy region that is traditionally served during the Christmas season. Cinepanettoni are comic movies served up during the holidays.
Difficulty: Advanced
Italy Lucano
This song is an ode to the region of Basilicata, also known as Lucania, in the southernmost part of Italy. Some of the lyrics go by very very quickly, which is why it's classified as advanced. Still, the refrain is slower and clearer, so why not give it a whirl, even if you're a beginner!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Federica demonstrates the final stages of making the Colomba. Once ready, she cuts it open to show us what it looks like on the inside, with its particular consistency.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Writer and scholar Fulvio Benelli shows us a part of Rome that tourists always flock to: Piazza Navona. But he tells us the fascinating story of how it came to be.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Fulvio shows us one of the most enigmatic monuments of all Rome, the Pantheon. He gives us some history, some interesting facts, and a legend, as well.
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