0:00:02 > 0:00:03'I am Antonio Carluccio.' Wonderful.
0:00:03 > 0:00:05'I live for food.'
0:00:05 > 0:00:08I always dream of that.
0:00:08 > 0:00:11'I am Gennaro Contaldo.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13'I too find food irresistible.
0:00:13 > 0:00:16'For years, I was Antonio's assistant.'
0:00:16 > 0:00:19Gennaro, from time to time can you look at the meat, please?
0:00:19 > 0:00:22'Now, he's my best friend.'
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Tonight, I'm going to try to seduce you.
0:00:25 > 0:00:29'He is a silly boy but a brilliant cook.'
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Why I'm cooking so good?!
0:00:32 > 0:00:36'It has been nearly 50 years since we lived in Italy.'
0:00:36 > 0:00:38Home sweet home.
0:00:38 > 0:00:39Unbelievable.
0:00:39 > 0:00:43'And we have come back to see what has changed.
0:00:43 > 0:00:47'This is a very different place to the country of our youth.'
0:00:50 > 0:00:54'And we are searching for the new Italy, the real Italy.'
0:00:54 > 0:00:59- Do you know, this is the first time I saw a green aubergine.- Me too.
0:00:59 > 0:01:05'When we were young, religious festivals were an excuse for wonderful treats.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09'Every mamma showed her love through cooking.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11'And everyone thought his own town was the best.'
0:01:16 > 0:01:18'But what is Italy like now?'
0:01:18 > 0:01:24Eh, it's pretty obvious that the 21st century is taking place here.
0:01:24 > 0:01:31'And how much of an appetite do we still have for the country where we were born?
0:01:31 > 0:01:35'Frankly, with Gennaro on board, this whole trip could be a disaster.'
0:01:35 > 0:01:38That's for you.
0:01:38 > 0:01:44- 'It will be fantastic, as long as there is plenty to eat.'- Wow.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49- Are you greedy?- Yes, I'm greedy for life. I'm greedy with food.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52We're two greedy Italians.
0:01:52 > 0:01:56Do you know what? For the first time after 27 years, I agree with you.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58- Is it 27 years?- 27 years.
0:01:58 > 0:02:02- Oh.- And you, I still have to teach you how to cook.
0:02:12 > 0:02:20'In my opinion, life has two principal functions, nourishment and procreation, food and family.
0:02:20 > 0:02:24'When we were boys, Italians were very good at both.'
0:02:24 > 0:02:30You know, in all those films, you always see this wonderful scene of
0:02:30 > 0:02:33Italians eating together and it's still happening,
0:02:33 > 0:02:39- but I am very worried. - Surely, Antonio, a family is such a big thing in Italy.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43'I am not so sure any more.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46'We have come to Emilia Romagna.
0:02:46 > 0:02:52'We want to see if Italian families still eat together like they used to.
0:02:52 > 0:02:56'And if the Italian mammas are still teaching their daughters how to cook.
0:02:56 > 0:03:01'And do the old ideas about Italian family even still apply?
0:03:01 > 0:03:08'We are off to lunch with some old friends near Modena, the home of balsamic vinegar.'
0:03:08 > 0:03:16- Gennaro, I always believe that Italy has at least two or three millions of Michelin star chefs.- Who?
0:03:16 > 0:03:19- The mamma, the mothers... - Oh, yes, oh, yes, oh, yes.
0:03:19 > 0:03:24The grannies, all those people that really teach you, me and everybody else what real
0:03:24 > 0:03:29Italian food is about. And tonight we are invited, do you know by who?
0:03:29 > 0:03:32- A mamma.- Yeah, obvious.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34Ciao...como esta?
0:03:36 > 0:03:39THEY SPEAK ITALIAN
0:03:39 > 0:03:46'Ah, they are a classic Italian family.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49'The mammas look after the house and do all the cooking.
0:03:49 > 0:03:54'The men, when they are at home, just relax.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00'We headed straight for the kitchen.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02'Tortellini.
0:04:02 > 0:04:09'Fresh pasta filled with a family recipe of pork, Parmesan and balsamic vinegar.
0:04:09 > 0:04:15'All Italian recipes started like this, in families, handed down from
0:04:15 > 0:04:22'mamma to daughter, to granddaughter and refined over centuries.'
0:04:22 > 0:04:23Look how many people she has to teach.
0:04:23 > 0:04:27SHE SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:04:27 > 0:04:33So they love to do the job because they want to carry on the tradition of this wonderful food.
0:04:33 > 0:04:37'They call them "Venus navels", symbols of love.
0:04:37 > 0:04:41'Wrapping each fiddly little parcel is hard work.
0:04:41 > 0:04:46'It can take a whole day to make just enough for Sunday lunch.
0:04:46 > 0:04:50'So, no weekend shopping sprees for these young girls.'
0:04:50 > 0:04:53'But they don't seem to mind.'
0:04:53 > 0:04:56When you close a tortellino,
0:04:56 > 0:05:02all your love close in this tortellino and every little piece of pasta is love.
0:05:02 > 0:05:03It's really nice.
0:05:06 > 0:05:13'In an Italian home, the most important thing is the dining table.'
0:05:13 > 0:05:15This is a family table.
0:05:15 > 0:05:22I think what is the experience of this table, it's seen almost everything, this table.
0:05:22 > 0:05:27It is where you cry, table where you actually fell in love with somebody,
0:05:27 > 0:05:33table where you leave somebody, table where you divorced.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35Table is happiness and joy,
0:05:35 > 0:05:41you know, wedding, christening, celebrating, all happens at a table.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44Table where you kiss somebody on side of the table
0:05:44 > 0:05:46and even can make love.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51Even jump on it in joy, dancing on the table.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54Table is so important.
0:05:54 > 0:05:59This is the joy of family and it's all along here.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01Bless this table.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08'High up in the villa,
0:06:08 > 0:06:14'the family fortune silently ferments in ancient barrels.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16'Balsamic vinegar.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21'There is a feeling of calm in here.
0:06:21 > 0:06:25'It's like entering the vault of family ancestors.'
0:06:25 > 0:06:271893.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31Still vinegar.
0:06:31 > 0:06:36'The balsamic is made by the women of the house.
0:06:36 > 0:06:42'The secrets have been handed down five generations by grandmothers.'
0:06:51 > 0:06:56'This is traditional Modena balsamic, matured for up to 35 years.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59'A complex, warm taste.'
0:07:01 > 0:07:04Still a lot of fruit after so many years.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08'A litre of this velvety nectar would cost £2,000.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10'It is precious stuff.'
0:07:10 > 0:07:15I could stay here forever... together with the vinegar.
0:07:22 > 0:07:26The most wonderful thing is the tortellini in brodo.
0:07:26 > 0:07:29They're exactly how it should be.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34'Little parcels of love.
0:07:34 > 0:07:39'Every one unique, made with time, patience and devotion.
0:07:39 > 0:07:46'It must be comforting for her to know that she will always be a presence at this table.'
0:07:46 > 0:07:48THEY TOAST IN ITALIAN
0:07:51 > 0:07:55'This is how I remember things when I was a little boy.
0:07:55 > 0:08:03'Maybe not quite such a beautiful house, but the whole family eating Mamma's food together like this.'
0:08:10 > 0:08:12No, I enjoyed it very much.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15I know you have enjoyed it yesterday. I can see you.
0:08:15 > 0:08:23It is fantastic to have the feeling of being in a family again because, well, I don't have a family.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26I have some... A brother, a sister,
0:08:26 > 0:08:31but I live alone and it's quite good to be, from time to time,
0:08:31 > 0:08:35confronted with what a family is and the advantage of a family.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37I have six children, Antonio.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39Wait a minute. I know of...
0:08:39 > 0:08:42Antonio, I have... Antonio!
0:08:42 > 0:08:45Antonio, listen to me. Yeah.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48I am glad that somebody produces children.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51Ah, children is love.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53Yeah.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55Stay there.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58Tell me, who give you flowers first thing in the morning?
0:08:58 > 0:09:00- That's perfect.- Don't eat it.
0:09:10 > 0:09:14This particular dish is actually bringing a lot of memory back.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17HE SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:09:17 > 0:09:20- I never heard of it. - Well, it's dialect.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23It means ricotta dumpling.
0:09:23 > 0:09:24Then I have a picture there.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26That is my mum.
0:09:26 > 0:09:31Every time I do a dish which my mother used to make, I don't
0:09:31 > 0:09:38- understand why the way my mother used to make I can never get near.- No.
0:09:38 > 0:09:42- So when I actually cook this dish, is your mum here?- Yeah, obviously.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44Well, that is a nice memory.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48First I will have the flour, which is 200 grams.
0:09:48 > 0:09:52More, more, more, more, more, more.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54- Fine.- 200 grams, dead on.
0:09:54 > 0:09:58Then I need 220 grams of ricotta.
0:09:58 > 0:10:02- Tell me when.- Yeah, now. Yes, OK.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05Then you only use the yolk of egg.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08One.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10Two.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14Yeah, three yolks. And now with the ricotta inside.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17- Can you pass me a fork, please? - Where's the fork? Here.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22That's good. Then I mix a little bit.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25The eggs will hold it all together.
0:10:25 > 0:10:26Then I will add Parmesan.
0:10:26 > 0:10:3120 grams to 30 grams of Parmesan.
0:10:31 > 0:10:34You grate Parmesan inside.
0:10:34 > 0:10:38Then you have just a little touch of nutmeg.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41Pinch of salt. Pinch of pepper.
0:10:41 > 0:10:46And then you have the flour inside.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48Then you use the best tool,
0:10:48 > 0:10:50- your hands.- Very delicately.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52You can see...
0:10:52 > 0:10:56everything just get together, such an easy dish to make.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01- Yeah, just mix well, Antonio. Go on. - That's what I'm doing.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04Just the other side as well. That's it, you're doing nice.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06And then you take a little bit.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08Probably judging by...
0:11:08 > 0:11:12- Too much.- Too much? So this?
0:11:12 > 0:11:14Well, we got... Just do this one.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17That's enough, that's enough. Put it there, not here.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19Well, your hands is underneath.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21It is nice to see you do that.
0:11:21 > 0:11:25So then you have a little flour on top.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30Gnocchi. Try to cut it like that, come on.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35Very difficult, doing that(!)
0:11:37 > 0:11:39But let me show you how quick the sauce is.
0:11:39 > 0:11:44I have two tins of tomato, then I have three cloves of garlic.
0:11:44 > 0:11:48- One chilli. I need for you to cut this chilli.- Pleasure.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51And a bunch of basil.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57- Meanwhile, I slice this. - Very finely chopped?
0:11:57 > 0:12:01- Roughly chopped, Antonio. Have you done the chilli?- Yeah, it's here.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04The frying pan is already hot.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07- Olive oil.- Olive oil. - Oh, lovely and oily.
0:12:07 > 0:12:12Now, I put the garlic and the chilli inside.
0:12:12 > 0:12:16It's in a flash. Quick, cooked sauce.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21And I'll get the dumplings here.
0:12:24 > 0:12:25Wonderful.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28Great. Cover.
0:12:28 > 0:12:32Now it will cook for about three to four minutes.
0:12:32 > 0:12:37- Don't worry.- Don't take very long. I've got to chop basil roughly.
0:12:37 > 0:12:41- Shall I grate the Parmesan for you? - Yes, please.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44- Oh ho! - The smell is very good, Gennaro.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46- Yeah. You shocked?- Yeah.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57The smell, Antonio. I'm closing my eyes.
0:12:57 > 0:13:01I can see my mum, I can see my sister inside the next room,
0:13:01 > 0:13:04trying to prepare the table, and me running around.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07- Even the cats and the dog. - My goodness.
0:13:07 > 0:13:08You have tears in your eyes.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10I do, Antonio. I'm sorry.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12- That's very touching.- Oh, hold on.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15It's not tears, it's joy.
0:13:15 > 0:13:20My little baby, you can see they start to come up, every single one.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22They're a little bit...
0:13:22 > 0:13:27heavier than other dumpling with the potato, because potato makes it light.
0:13:27 > 0:13:29But they're probably tastier.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31You're right. Oh, bless you. I love it when you say that.
0:13:31 > 0:13:34- I want to taste that.- Taste one.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37Because I never had them before.
0:13:38 > 0:13:42- Put it down.- Yeah, fantastic. - You see, here we use Parmesan.- Yes.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45- But we used to use goat cheese.- Yes.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48- Can I just...?- Yeah, you can do, yes.
0:13:57 > 0:14:04Mm. I can understand that you remember your mother with them.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06The smell and the flavour. Bless her.
0:14:10 > 0:14:11'Cooking for the family
0:14:11 > 0:14:14'was the most important thing in the world for grandmothers.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22'But in the 1950s, Italy got richer.
0:14:25 > 0:14:29'Many housewives went to work in the factories
0:14:29 > 0:14:33'and working mammas have no time to make tortellini.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38'Then in the '60s, a clever baker's son from Verona
0:14:38 > 0:14:43'invented a machine to mass produce those little parcels of love.
0:14:43 > 0:14:49'Now Giovanni Rana's very famous and a multimillionaire.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51'We went to see one of his factories.'
0:14:51 > 0:14:54Oh, wow, look at this.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56- This is the one you close... - Yeah, yeah.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02- ..by mechanical mechanism. - Can I?- Yeah, of course.
0:15:04 > 0:15:09- Semolina? - Eggs and flour together, and eggs.
0:15:09 > 0:15:13No water.
0:15:13 > 0:15:19I managed to find out how many eggs are used every day. 800,000.
0:15:19 > 0:15:26But I am still very sceptical about the end result and I want to see it and taste it.
0:15:28 > 0:15:33'In the old days, Mr Rana delivered his pasta on this little moped.
0:15:33 > 0:15:37'He's now the biggest fresh pasta producer in Europe.'
0:15:39 > 0:15:43I'm very happy to present and introduce you to Mr Giovanni Rana.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45Giovanni.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47THEY SPEAK ITALIAN
0:15:55 > 0:16:00- I love it, I love it!- "In a certain way I am sorry," he says.
0:16:00 > 0:16:04Now, maybe if you are hungry we can go to taste.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06- I am hungry.- Me too.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09I put my hands up. Mr Giovanni's cooking?
0:16:09 > 0:16:11SHE TRANSLATES
0:16:16 > 0:16:21'Signor Rana has also a chain of 21 restaurants serving his fresh pasta.
0:16:21 > 0:16:26'Now tortellini have become a cheap, quick lunch.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31'But the proof is in the tasting.'
0:16:37 > 0:16:42The pasta is remarkably good and I really don't know
0:16:42 > 0:16:47what could be the difference between these and the hand-made.
0:16:47 > 0:16:51Probably is a touch of love that is missing.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53I don't know.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57I find them OK,
0:16:57 > 0:17:00you know, but I still prefer those you make at home.
0:17:01 > 0:17:06'Nowadays, fast-food places are springing up all over Italy.
0:17:06 > 0:17:10'Could this be the beginning of the end for Mamma's cooking?'
0:17:12 > 0:17:15'We are off to Bologna, city of towers.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18'They call it La Grassa, the Fat One,
0:17:18 > 0:17:21'because the people in Bologna are very...
0:17:21 > 0:17:23'The Bologna people are not fat.
0:17:23 > 0:17:30'They call it La Grassa because it has the richest, most fantastic food in all of Italy.'
0:17:30 > 0:17:33That's the one. Stop, stop, stop.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35Oh, my God. Bless her.
0:17:35 > 0:17:39Gennaro, this is the very, very famous Madonna Grassa.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41Even the Madonna can be fat, come on!
0:17:41 > 0:17:43I love this way they made the Madonna.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46She's so beautiful. Do you know what?
0:17:46 > 0:17:49- Here in Bologna they say there's such beautiful women.- Really?
0:17:49 > 0:17:55And I'm going to fix a date with one of the most beautiful women in Bologna.
0:17:55 > 0:17:57- I can guarantee.- No.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00You will die for it.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02I am not sure, but please help yourself.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05- OK, can we go now?- Can we go and see the rest of Bologna?
0:18:05 > 0:18:09OK, here we go. Ciao, Madonna.
0:18:09 > 0:18:14'It's obvious why the mamma means so much to Italians.
0:18:14 > 0:18:20'They also call Bologna La Rossa, the Red One, because it's left wing and liberal.
0:18:20 > 0:18:25'If family traditions are changing anywhere, they change here first.
0:18:25 > 0:18:31'But the first thing is to get our hands on those Bologna cheeses and hams.'
0:18:31 > 0:18:34My God, Antonio, look at that.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36THEY SPEAK ITALIAN
0:18:38 > 0:18:41Salami, San Marino, I can't believe it.
0:18:41 > 0:18:45As soon as you walk in, your eyes start to get hungry.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49There's just so much you don't know where to go, what to pick.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51HE SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:18:51 > 0:18:55Two years aged prosciutto di Parma, the real Parma ham.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58- This is wonderland here.- Grazie.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01- Grazie.- Is this supposed to be mine?
0:19:01 > 0:19:02Grazie.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06Ah!
0:19:09 > 0:19:11I am just like a child in a toy shop.
0:19:11 > 0:19:18The mortadella is the most underrated salami of Bologna and it is fantastic.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21Everybody believes it's just like Spam. Absolutely not.
0:19:21 > 0:19:26It is the most wonderful thing ever and you cut it very thin.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29Possibly you put in focaccia. Ah!
0:19:33 > 0:19:36What about cheese? What kind of cheeses shall we get?
0:19:47 > 0:19:51'I have found the perfect place to stay in the city of towers.'
0:19:53 > 0:19:55Oh, my God.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57That's my surprise for you.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59Oh, my God.
0:19:59 > 0:20:04'The Prendiparte Tower, a mediaeval bed and breakfast.'
0:20:04 > 0:20:06Look at this. Look at this.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10That's just wonderful.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12And here's the bell.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16- That's the bell?- Yeah, I believe so.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19Antonio, this is unbelievable.
0:20:19 > 0:20:23- Even your Madonna here, Gennaro. - Let's have a look.
0:20:25 > 0:20:31Mmm, a chocolate. Ah, Gennaro, even a chocolate.
0:20:32 > 0:20:33Anyway, I'm going out now.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35Have a nice rest.
0:20:38 > 0:20:43He's the king of the castle because there is a servant downstairs.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45"Gennaro, can you get me this?"
0:20:45 > 0:20:48But I love him to bits and he loves me.
0:20:48 > 0:20:52'But he really does live in a bit of a ivory tower.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54'I live alone.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57'I couldn't have children for various reasons.
0:20:57 > 0:21:02'First wife couldn't have some, second wife, within seven months of marriage...
0:21:02 > 0:21:05'The last one already had children and didn't want any.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07'It's not that I feel a failure.
0:21:07 > 0:21:12'I was a bit unlucky or perhaps unprepared or whatever.
0:21:12 > 0:21:18'Don't have a wife, and I would love with all my heart for him to meet somebody
0:21:18 > 0:21:23'and really enjoy the bits which I enjoy with my family.
0:21:23 > 0:21:28'Yes, and I hope one day Antonio will do it.'
0:21:28 > 0:21:33I feel sometimes very alone.
0:21:33 > 0:21:37Money and all of that, it comes and goes.
0:21:37 > 0:21:41What now I'm looking for, a bit of love.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44Just what I want from life actually, just that.
0:21:58 > 0:22:02'Seven in the evening is the best time in Bologna.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05'Everyone comes out in search of an aperitif.
0:22:05 > 0:22:09'We were on a mission to find out if women still cook.
0:22:09 > 0:22:16'But first Antonio wants his favourite aperitivo, Lambrusco e culatello.'
0:22:16 > 0:22:20They say it's so thick you can cut it with a knife. It's wonderful.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Antonio? Do you forget me?
0:22:22 > 0:22:26- No, no, no.- Thank you very much. - I was wine merchant for many years.
0:22:26 > 0:22:30Yes, I know that you were. I was wine taster for many years.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32- That's a delicious wine. - Mamma mia, Antonio.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Typical of this region.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37It's almost like a bull's blood.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39Fantastic.
0:22:41 > 0:22:45Mwah!
0:22:45 > 0:22:49'Ah, culatello, the finest ham in Bologna.'
0:22:49 > 0:22:54- Ah, the smell of it.- The flavour.
0:22:54 > 0:22:58Mm, Antonio, I wanna give you some, come on.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00Gennaro, shall we have some more?
0:23:00 > 0:23:02Francesca!
0:23:02 > 0:23:05HE SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:23:10 > 0:23:14- Grazie, Francesca. Grazie.- Grazie.
0:23:14 > 0:23:19'Four or five portion later and we carried on with our mission.'
0:23:19 > 0:23:24We were asking the question if young ladies in Italy, they are still cooking?
0:23:24 > 0:23:26I'm not interesting in cooking.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28I'm a crime journalist.
0:23:28 > 0:23:34I love my career and I prefer to use my spare time in doing something else.
0:23:34 > 0:23:39- Probably in the old days you couldn't have been a journalist. You have the freedom today.- No, si.
0:23:39 > 0:23:45But you have rejected completely the food, which is one of the most important things of life.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48Maybe it's a kind of total rebellion, you know.
0:23:48 > 0:23:53Yeah, but you cut into yourself because you know, a rebellion about food...
0:23:53 > 0:23:57- Maybe not, because I live by myself. - What do you eat?
0:23:57 > 0:24:00Antonio, I don't understand.
0:24:00 > 0:24:04The old days, you know, if you couldn't cook, you couldn't get married.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06I don't know.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09- I've never thought about that. - Try, try to get married.
0:24:09 > 0:24:13Maybe not. Why can't we find a man who can cook?
0:24:13 > 0:24:18- It should be so lovely.- Usually the man loves to make the chef, wow.
0:24:18 > 0:24:24He's doing something really creative or original and the woman
0:24:24 > 0:24:29is the one that have every day to carry the dishes to the table.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31That's really funny, you know.
0:24:31 > 0:24:37My girlfriend works very hard so if I want to eat at home
0:24:37 > 0:24:40when I come back from work, I have to cook something.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43- Very sad.- It is very, very sad.
0:24:43 > 0:24:48And where you learn to cook? From your mother or your grandmother, from your sister?
0:24:48 > 0:24:51Yeah, more from my grandmother and I really, really miss
0:24:51 > 0:24:54the old Italian family tradition.
0:24:54 > 0:24:58Anyway, I hope that you all pursue whatever you like to pursue,
0:24:58 > 0:25:03but remember one thing, that cooking is the second best thing in life.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05After that...?
0:25:05 > 0:25:06LAUGHTER
0:25:06 > 0:25:08'I couldn't believe it.
0:25:08 > 0:25:12'When I was young, every woman in Italy knew how to cook.'
0:25:16 > 0:25:21'The next day, I went to the art gallery to have a think.'
0:25:24 > 0:25:27That's beautiful, to look at a scene like that,
0:25:27 > 0:25:33the family, mother feeding the child, a typical, idyllic family scene.
0:25:34 > 0:25:38'Some young women have clearly rebelled against all this.'
0:25:41 > 0:25:45Do you know what? I did not expect it. I'm really surprised and I'm a chef.
0:25:45 > 0:25:49This is my life. I know that love and passion is on it,
0:25:49 > 0:25:52you know. My girls, I'm teaching them to cook.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54My wife knows how to cook.
0:25:54 > 0:25:58I come from a generation of everybody cooks inside the house.
0:25:58 > 0:26:02'Italian women are having less children nowadays
0:26:02 > 0:26:06'and it seems being the mamma in a big family has lost its appeal.'
0:26:06 > 0:26:08When I see these beautiful girls,
0:26:08 > 0:26:14all this lovely generation that can't cook, what are we gonna do tomorrow in Italy? Come on. Come on.
0:26:24 > 0:26:29Don't move, Antonio. I'm going to take the water. Yeah? Don't move.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32Don't move. Don't move. Don't move.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34Y-es!
0:26:40 > 0:26:44Did you see the sign over there? "Cherry." Look.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46"Agenzia Matrimoniale."
0:26:46 > 0:26:49Yes. So it's a agency for dating.
0:26:49 > 0:26:56People in the past used to meet at family reunions, little village feasts, was a kind of romance...
0:26:56 > 0:27:00- Well...- And now we have a place like that.- Ah ha!
0:27:00 > 0:27:05- And I want to take you in just for pure curiosity.- And do you think I need a dating agency?
0:27:05 > 0:27:08No, you don't need, you got me anyway, so what do you need it for?
0:27:08 > 0:27:11- But for curiosity...- You are really insisting that I got you.
0:27:11 > 0:27:12I don't have you, I don't like you.
0:27:12 > 0:27:17No! Now, you say, now you don't like me, but you like me.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19- Yeah, but not as you think.- No!
0:27:19 > 0:27:23- Can we go?- Do you know what? The best thing is to do it for curiosity.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26No, it's only out of professional curiosity I do this.
0:27:26 > 0:27:30'Dating agencies didn't exist when we were young.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32'There was no divorce.
0:27:32 > 0:27:36'Now it's on the up. I was intrigued.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38'I had a little plan up my sleeve.'
0:27:38 > 0:27:43About six million people live alone, especially women.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45- Six million people?- Yeah.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47'My goodness, that's one in ten.'
0:27:47 > 0:27:53That's very bad for the food because being sort of solo, probably they don't have to cook any more.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56Tell me, you know, somebody comes along saying,
0:27:56 > 0:27:59"I want to get married, I need to find a wife..."
0:27:59 > 0:28:01you can help?
0:28:01 > 0:28:04- Yes.- Can you tell me one thing?
0:28:04 > 0:28:09So there are girls that can't cook and even that they don't want to cook,
0:28:09 > 0:28:12what chances do they have to have a husband?
0:28:12 > 0:28:17I don't know, but it's difficult for women
0:28:17 > 0:28:19if she is not able to cook.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21Would you like to date somebody?
0:28:21 > 0:28:23- Why not?- Why not?- It's a chance.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25Do we have somebody...?
0:28:25 > 0:28:27'My little plan was working.'
0:28:29 > 0:28:32Antonio, yes! I've done it.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34Yes, but I am not very sure.
0:28:34 > 0:28:35Well, no, it's all right.
0:28:35 > 0:28:38And anyway, it's only a joke, you know that.
0:28:38 > 0:28:41- Of course it is a joke.- Cos I don't want anything very serious here.
0:28:41 > 0:28:45- No, no, there is nothing serious. - I don't need it.- I am there.- OK.
0:28:45 > 0:28:46- So, no worries.- You defend me.
0:28:46 > 0:28:51OK, defend you, but I promised you that I was going to find it, just because we need to...
0:28:56 > 0:28:59'It was time to get Antonio in the mood for love.
0:28:59 > 0:29:02'Signor Carluccio must become Signor Casanova.'
0:29:04 > 0:29:06Gennaro, what is going on here?
0:29:06 > 0:29:10- Sit down here, come on. - What are you doing?
0:29:10 > 0:29:11Sit down here, sit down first.
0:29:11 > 0:29:16- So what is going on?- Tonight, I'm going to try to seduce you.
0:29:16 > 0:29:18HE LAUGHS
0:29:18 > 0:29:22You seducing me?! You're mad in the head.
0:29:22 > 0:29:28I'm going to make hot amaretti chocolate pudding, which you love.
0:29:28 > 0:29:30- That's right.- Look me...
0:29:32 > 0:29:34- Inside a pot here...- Yes.
0:29:34 > 0:29:39- I'm going to put two tablespoons of sugar...- Yes.
0:29:39 > 0:29:42Then one tablespoon of flour.
0:29:42 > 0:29:45- It's good so far.- And I have here...
0:29:45 > 0:29:49- Oh, yes.- The smell... - Vanilla, yes.- The proper vanilla.
0:29:49 > 0:29:53- But did you take the seeds out of that?- I... You making or...?
0:29:53 > 0:29:56- OK, OK, OK.- Stay there. - I enjoy myself.
0:29:56 > 0:30:00That's it. Inside here is the seeds of love, fertility, the lot.
0:30:00 > 0:30:03What has got into you today?
0:30:03 > 0:30:09I have a half a litre of milk which I'm going to put in just for starter, just a little bit.
0:30:09 > 0:30:13- We'll stir it.- Yes. - The reason why I do this,
0:30:13 > 0:30:19because I don't want my chocolate amaretti pudding to get lumpy,
0:30:19 > 0:30:22then I will put the rest of the milk inside.
0:30:24 > 0:30:28- Now two shots of amaretto liqueur. - Lovely. Marvellous.
0:30:28 > 0:30:32- You just taste it.- This is really a potion, it's a love potion.
0:30:32 > 0:30:37A love potion. One...and two. It's about 80 mil.
0:30:37 > 0:30:39Keep stirring.
0:30:39 > 0:30:45I am very curious to see how you can let it thicken with a little flour.
0:30:45 > 0:30:47Of course it will. Why you never trust me?
0:30:47 > 0:30:51You know what? I can never seduce you because you are...
0:30:51 > 0:30:54- No, you can't.- We already argue before we seduce you.
0:30:54 > 0:30:58No, no, no, you can't. Either sitting or not sitting, you can't.
0:31:01 > 0:31:03I stir them around.
0:31:03 > 0:31:08Remember, we never throw away anything to Italy, we use everything.
0:31:08 > 0:31:10Do you want to put it for me? Go.
0:31:10 > 0:31:12Oh, thank you, thank you.
0:31:12 > 0:31:15- There you are. Gentle. - Such a gentle...
0:31:15 > 0:31:17And you keep stirring.
0:31:17 > 0:31:21Then out of the blue, look, it start to get thicker and thicker.
0:31:21 > 0:31:23Out of the dark, actually, yes.
0:31:23 > 0:31:26Out of the dark. Such a romantic evening.
0:31:29 > 0:31:33Romantic for you, Gennaro, but certainly not for me!
0:31:33 > 0:31:38Inside that I will put 100 grams of plain chocolate.
0:31:39 > 0:31:41Be very careful, because sometimes...
0:31:41 > 0:31:45- You can cut your fingers.- You know, chocolate, it can be very...- Hard.
0:31:45 > 0:31:48You want to try to help me, you can't.
0:31:48 > 0:31:51Very hard work to seduce somebody, eh?
0:31:51 > 0:31:52Well...
0:31:52 > 0:31:57Come on, go on, get on with it. Did you ever make this for a woman?
0:31:57 > 0:31:59- Yes, I have.- For the seduction?
0:31:59 > 0:32:01- Yes, I have.- And what happened?
0:32:01 > 0:32:03And she loved it.
0:32:06 > 0:32:08Now, slowly we'll melt,
0:32:08 > 0:32:13- and now I'm going to add 50 grams... - Of butter.- ..of butter.
0:32:13 > 0:32:15And what does the butter do here?
0:32:15 > 0:32:20The butter will silken it, the amaretto gives a lovely flavour,
0:32:20 > 0:32:24the vanilla is inside, plus the seed inside.
0:32:24 > 0:32:27Oh, my goodness me.
0:32:27 > 0:32:33It's done. Now I remove the vanilla pod, just I want to taste it.
0:32:33 > 0:32:37We are the Two Greedy Chefs, but I know who is more greedy than me.
0:32:42 > 0:32:46- It's ready now?- It is ready.
0:32:46 > 0:32:49And you want to seduce me with that?
0:32:49 > 0:32:51You wait and you taste it.
0:32:57 > 0:33:02And I'm going to crumble an amaretti biscuit on top.
0:33:02 > 0:33:06- My goodness, you are strong. - It's started working.
0:33:06 > 0:33:08- What did I say?! - It's started working!
0:33:10 > 0:33:13Just try and tell me, look me first...
0:33:18 > 0:33:21Abracadabra!
0:33:21 > 0:33:22You silly man!
0:33:22 > 0:33:25Don't burn yourself. Come on, tell me the truth.
0:33:32 > 0:33:35It is fantastic chocolate. I appreciate your intention.
0:33:35 > 0:33:38You remain a good friend, but I can't be seduced by it.
0:33:38 > 0:33:40Let me seduce you properly now.
0:33:40 > 0:33:41Are you ready?
0:33:49 > 0:33:53Gennaro, go and seduce somebody else. That's what I can tell you.
0:33:57 > 0:33:59OWL HOOTS
0:34:00 > 0:34:01PHONE RINGS
0:34:02 > 0:34:03Pronto.
0:34:03 > 0:34:06'Oh, no, the dating agency.'
0:34:20 > 0:34:23- Gennaro?- Si, Antonio.
0:34:24 > 0:34:26That's funny. She comes.
0:34:26 > 0:34:31Oh, yes! Are you ready? You got everything ready up there?
0:34:31 > 0:34:33Nice new shirt you needed.
0:34:33 > 0:34:35Not the rubbish you wear every day.
0:34:36 > 0:34:38GENNARO PANTS
0:34:38 > 0:34:42Have you thought what I could have, food for the occasion?
0:34:42 > 0:34:45- I think, Antonio... - Something that has to do with love.
0:34:45 > 0:34:49We'll have...antipasti for start, you don't want to eat too much.
0:34:49 > 0:34:53- Antipasti, everybody has. - Well, let's have some aperitivo.
0:34:53 > 0:34:55Yeah, but something very specific too.
0:34:55 > 0:34:57Shall we do zabaglione?
0:34:57 > 0:34:59Zabaglione, yeah, that's a good one.
0:34:59 > 0:35:02- And soft, full of love...- Yeah. - I'm making it.
0:35:02 > 0:35:04BELLS RING OUT
0:35:06 > 0:35:10'Three hours later I was deeply regretting Gennaro's ridiculous idea.
0:35:10 > 0:35:14'The silly boy, he had gone completely over the top.
0:35:17 > 0:35:19'It was eight o'clock.
0:35:22 > 0:35:23'The time had come.
0:35:23 > 0:35:25'All we knew,
0:35:25 > 0:35:30'her name was Erica, and she was looking for a serious husband.'
0:35:30 > 0:35:33Erica, I will be there in one second.
0:35:33 > 0:35:36HE SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:35:41 > 0:35:43- Erica.- Hello.
0:35:43 > 0:35:45Welcome. Thank you very much for coming.
0:35:45 > 0:35:49- Thank you.- Come inside the tower.
0:35:49 > 0:35:50Fantastic.
0:35:54 > 0:35:56Careful here.
0:35:58 > 0:36:00- You all right?- Yes.- OK.
0:36:00 > 0:36:03- Antonio?- Yes?
0:36:03 > 0:36:05- Hello.- Erica.
0:36:05 > 0:36:07- Hello.- My goodness, that's a date.
0:36:07 > 0:36:09- Nice to meet you.- Hello. Antonio.
0:36:09 > 0:36:11- Your name is?- Erica.- Erica.
0:36:11 > 0:36:13Gennaro, can you open the wine, please?
0:36:13 > 0:36:17'I wanted to kill Gennaro. The poor girl was half my age.'
0:36:17 > 0:36:19I am sorry, actually, I can't marry you.
0:36:19 > 0:36:22I would like to, but you are very young.
0:36:22 > 0:36:27- Yeah, I know.- So, this date is the organisation of this gentleman here.
0:36:27 > 0:36:29Thank you very much.
0:36:29 > 0:36:34'But still we could have a lovely evening, and I wondered if she could cook.'
0:36:34 > 0:36:38Do you like a little bit... the speciality here, this is prosciutto, I think.
0:36:38 > 0:36:42- Yeah, I like...- Take whatever you like.- ..this most.
0:36:42 > 0:36:45Take a plate myself, because I like this...
0:36:45 > 0:36:50- I like mortadella, actually - typical thing from Bologna.- Yes.
0:36:51 > 0:36:54She's so beautiful.
0:36:54 > 0:36:57Let me just put the sugar inside, yeah.
0:36:57 > 0:37:02Put roughly six tablespoons of sugar inside and I will beat him up.
0:37:02 > 0:37:05I put eight eggs inside, yolk of egg.
0:37:05 > 0:37:08Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
0:37:08 > 0:37:10Still waiting.
0:37:10 > 0:37:13Anyway, it's extremely interesting.
0:37:13 > 0:37:17Can you tell me, why do you go to the agency?
0:37:17 > 0:37:21Because I want to find a serious man.
0:37:21 > 0:37:23- A serious man? - A really serious man.
0:37:23 > 0:37:26I mean, someone who wants to build a family.
0:37:26 > 0:37:29I like to cook for someone because cooking for yourself is a little sad.
0:37:29 > 0:37:33You know, that says to me something very important
0:37:33 > 0:37:35- when you say you like to cook for someone.- Yeah.
0:37:35 > 0:37:38Because this is majorly an act of love.
0:37:38 > 0:37:42If you cook for somebody, it means that you are able to love people.
0:37:44 > 0:37:47Then I'm going to put some marsala inside.
0:37:47 > 0:37:51You can actually put some other different alcohol,
0:37:51 > 0:37:53as long as it's sweet wine.
0:37:53 > 0:37:56Mix, mix, mix all together. Come on, it's fluffing up.
0:37:56 > 0:37:58Come on!
0:37:58 > 0:38:01When I was a child, I used to cook with my...
0:38:01 > 0:38:04- Granny? Oh, that's interesting. - ..grandmother, yeah.
0:38:04 > 0:38:06- Is she still alive?- Yes.
0:38:06 > 0:38:09You have to extract from her everything
0:38:09 > 0:38:12because then this come a time when you can't any more.
0:38:12 > 0:38:15Perhaps you write it down because it's very interesting.
0:38:15 > 0:38:17Yeah, I will, I will. You gave me good advice.
0:38:17 > 0:38:19Thank you.
0:38:19 > 0:38:22This zabaglione is full of love, and you never know, you know.
0:38:22 > 0:38:26Out of the joke sometime a big romance is coming out.
0:38:29 > 0:38:32So, we are in a tower here.
0:38:32 > 0:38:36If you wouldn't have come from there, if you'd have come from there,
0:38:36 > 0:38:39I would have thought you were a ghost of the tower.
0:38:40 > 0:38:43A nice ghost, but you have a...
0:38:43 > 0:38:47Because you are very pretty and I am very glad to be with you.
0:38:47 > 0:38:48Well, thank you.
0:38:48 > 0:38:49Gennaro?
0:38:59 > 0:39:01CUPS RATTLE
0:39:01 > 0:39:06Jesus. I wish I could find a little plate.
0:39:06 > 0:39:07I'm shaking.
0:39:07 > 0:39:09Yes.
0:39:09 > 0:39:11SPOON CLATTERS
0:39:11 > 0:39:16- So, I really wish you all the best. - Thank you very much.
0:39:16 > 0:39:20Really from the heart. I envy the man that will get you.
0:39:20 > 0:39:22Somehow. I drink to this.
0:39:24 > 0:39:25Thank you.
0:39:27 > 0:39:32- Ah, Gennaro, look at this. It's fantastic.- Wow.
0:39:32 > 0:39:33- Zabaglione.- Wow.
0:39:33 > 0:39:37That's a fantastic thing. Gennaro, you are fantastic, yes.
0:39:37 > 0:39:39CUTLERY CLATTERS
0:39:39 > 0:39:41Gennaro, just go and leave us alone.
0:39:41 > 0:39:43Excuse me, signorina.
0:39:44 > 0:39:47Every day I have to do something!
0:39:53 > 0:39:58So, Antonio, tell me, did you think it was worth it?
0:39:58 > 0:40:00Erica was very sweet.
0:40:00 > 0:40:05I agree she was very sweet, very genuine and very frank
0:40:05 > 0:40:08and I think that she will find a good man.
0:40:08 > 0:40:10And the food was good?
0:40:10 > 0:40:14The food was good. The zabaglione was a bit sort of thin, but OK.
0:40:14 > 0:40:15What do you mean, a bit thin?
0:40:15 > 0:40:17- A bit thin.- What do you mean?
0:40:17 > 0:40:20I told you to do it with less liquid and you didn't.
0:40:20 > 0:40:22It was too liquid.
0:40:22 > 0:40:24Tell me when you say, "You done good."
0:40:24 > 0:40:27Gennaro, when you do perfection, then I tell you that.
0:40:27 > 0:40:30- I'm going to bed. - OK. It's quite time to go.
0:40:30 > 0:40:34Yeah, it's quite time to go because you're never happy, you always complain.
0:40:34 > 0:40:36After I've done all this for you! I go to bed.
0:40:36 > 0:40:40- Gennaro, good night.- Yes, good night.- Good night. Sleep well.
0:40:41 > 0:40:46Gennaro, I had a lovely evening, thank you very much.
0:40:46 > 0:40:48Oh, bless you.
0:40:48 > 0:40:50Good night.
0:40:53 > 0:40:57'The next day, we heard of a new development.
0:40:57 > 0:40:59'Things were looking up.
0:41:01 > 0:41:04'Apparently, cooking schools for foreign tourists
0:41:04 > 0:41:07'were being inundated with Italians.
0:41:07 > 0:41:09'We wanted to have a look
0:41:09 > 0:41:15'and even asked Julia, the kitchen-hating crime reporter, to give it a try.'
0:41:15 > 0:41:17- Buon giorno.- Buon giorno.
0:41:17 > 0:41:19GENNARO SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:41:19 > 0:41:24You're going to have a lot of friends if you're able to make the tortellini.
0:41:24 > 0:41:28Maybe I can just have less crime scenes and...
0:41:28 > 0:41:30SHE LAUGHS
0:41:30 > 0:41:35- More alive people than dead people.- Yeah.
0:41:35 > 0:41:38More alive, you said, more smiley people.
0:41:38 > 0:41:41Imagine, you know, you can see this lovely man, you really like him,
0:41:41 > 0:41:43you don't know what you tell him.
0:41:43 > 0:41:47- "Yes, I'm a very sensual..." - Hello! I can make tortellini!
0:41:47 > 0:41:51And you say, "Come round my house and I'll make you a few tortellini."
0:41:51 > 0:41:58- You tell me which is an Italian man which will refuse a plate of tortellini.- No-one.
0:41:58 > 0:42:00- There is no-one.- I can guarantee.
0:42:02 > 0:42:04You never learned to make pasta from your mother?
0:42:04 > 0:42:09My grandma a little bit, but not so much.
0:42:09 > 0:42:14So, you want to do the ravioli and the tortellini and all of that
0:42:14 > 0:42:17- because you are really adamant to do it yourself.- Yeah.
0:42:17 > 0:42:20That's fantastic.
0:42:20 > 0:42:22From tagliatelle to tortellini to...
0:42:22 > 0:42:26- Ravioli, caramelle. - Ravioli, caramelle, cannelloni.
0:42:26 > 0:42:30- Cannelloni, lasagne. - Lasagne.- Bravo!
0:42:30 > 0:42:33'Alessandra, the owner of the school, has found a whole new role in life.'
0:42:33 > 0:42:37SHE SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:42:37 > 0:42:40Who doesn't have a mother that can teach, comes here.
0:42:40 > 0:42:43So, she's the mother of everybody.
0:42:44 > 0:42:47- Two little folds.- OK.
0:42:47 > 0:42:49OK.
0:42:49 > 0:42:51- And it's done?- Wow, that's good!
0:42:51 > 0:42:52Look at her!
0:42:52 > 0:42:56She's done it!
0:42:56 > 0:42:58- Give me five! Ole!- Yes!
0:43:00 > 0:43:03- Gennaro, look at this. - Look at the tagliatelle.
0:43:03 > 0:43:05- Look at that.- Ooh, that's fantastic.
0:43:05 > 0:43:08So, we will have a lovely meal today.
0:43:08 > 0:43:10'We had learned a lot in Bologna.
0:43:10 > 0:43:14'Even if today's mammas are not teaching their children,
0:43:14 > 0:43:16'young women are still learning to cook.
0:43:16 > 0:43:21'Not because they are expected to cook but because they want to.'
0:43:31 > 0:43:37Scottiglia di cinghiale, or the stew of wild boar.
0:43:37 > 0:43:41It is one of the most wonderful dishes to share in a family
0:43:41 > 0:43:43because it's a very social affair.
0:43:43 > 0:43:47So, you starting cooking carrots and celery.
0:43:47 > 0:43:50- Would you like to help me? - Of course.- Fantastic.
0:43:50 > 0:43:55It's a little bit of work, but it's fantastic because it gives incredible results.
0:43:55 > 0:43:59- Gennaro, don't chop my hands. - I'm far away from you!
0:43:59 > 0:44:03And naturally, when you cook for a big family or big group of people,
0:44:03 > 0:44:06it is very usual that everybody participates.
0:44:06 > 0:44:11Don't start to be the very chef that does like this...
0:44:11 > 0:44:13I don't like it. Slowly.
0:44:13 > 0:44:16I have to cut the onions my own way.
0:44:16 > 0:44:17No, you want to show off.
0:44:17 > 0:44:19Yeah, I want to show off.
0:44:22 > 0:44:25Then we also put the oil on.
0:44:25 > 0:44:28- Tell me when.- Go on, go on, go on.
0:44:28 > 0:44:31- Where do I have to go?- Go on.
0:44:31 > 0:44:33It's enough.
0:44:33 > 0:44:40One teaspoon of peppercorns and one tablespoon of juniper berries.
0:44:42 > 0:44:45And I will start to chop the meat.
0:44:45 > 0:44:47We have here rabbit
0:44:47 > 0:44:51and sausage, pork sausage,
0:44:51 > 0:44:54wild boar and pork.
0:44:54 > 0:44:57You have about 200 grams of meat per person.
0:44:57 > 0:44:59I like this mixture of everything.
0:44:59 > 0:45:00If you have got no wild boar
0:45:00 > 0:45:03you could just use pork and chicken and rabbit.
0:45:03 > 0:45:05It's a bit of fat in it.
0:45:05 > 0:45:07It will melt right through.
0:45:07 > 0:45:09What a dish.
0:45:09 > 0:45:12- Shall we start to put them inside? - Yes, yes, yes.
0:45:12 > 0:45:16That looks fantastic. And put some red wine in it.
0:45:16 > 0:45:20And we get the lovely colour. Just a little bit of colour, Antonio, yeah?
0:45:20 > 0:45:22Just a little bit, yes.
0:45:22 > 0:45:27So 200ml of red wine will give the lovely, lovely flavour.
0:45:27 > 0:45:31We put a little bit of rosemary, a bit of sage
0:45:31 > 0:45:32and bay leaves,
0:45:32 > 0:45:36and now it comes the Italian thing,
0:45:36 > 0:45:40which is polpa di pomodoro, so tomato pulp.
0:45:40 > 0:45:44- How much is it? - This is 1.5 kilos all together.
0:45:45 > 0:45:47Can you stir it, please?
0:45:47 > 0:45:50You notice I didn't put any salt or pepper?
0:45:50 > 0:45:52Not yet. I'm waiting for you.
0:45:52 > 0:45:56It comes later, otherwise it makes the meat tough. Here's the nutmeg.
0:45:56 > 0:45:58Gennaro, you have wonderful fingers.
0:45:58 > 0:46:00Don't grate your finger!
0:46:00 > 0:46:02How much? Half? Quarter?
0:46:02 > 0:46:04Half.
0:46:06 > 0:46:07I love it.
0:46:08 > 0:46:12So now you put the whole tin of tomato paste,
0:46:12 > 0:46:17because I would like the sauce to be very concentrated with tomato.
0:46:17 > 0:46:20OK. Let's turn it down.
0:46:20 > 0:46:23- Shall I cover now?- Cover it.
0:46:23 > 0:46:27So that means I have to stay here about one hour and a half?
0:46:27 > 0:46:30But that is what you are trained to be done. Bye-bye, Gennaro.
0:46:30 > 0:46:33Look, look at this wonderful chair.
0:46:33 > 0:46:35Ahh!
0:46:35 > 0:46:38Ah, Gennaro, that's life.
0:46:38 > 0:46:43Ahh. Somebody's working and somebody's resting.
0:46:43 > 0:46:46Gennaro, from time to time can you look at the meat, please?
0:46:59 > 0:47:01SNORING
0:47:06 > 0:47:09- Little baby.- What is it? - Come on. Were you sleeping?
0:47:09 > 0:47:12I had a wonderful snooze.
0:47:12 > 0:47:15Gennaro, would you be so kind to move, please?
0:47:15 > 0:47:17That is the way I like.
0:47:17 > 0:47:20- Thank you.- I wanted to see now the way you make polenta.
0:47:20 > 0:47:23So, polenta. We have here three litres of water
0:47:23 > 0:47:27and the polenta is the flour of maize.
0:47:27 > 0:47:28It's a five-minute polenta
0:47:28 > 0:47:33and very delicious, because it goes perfectly with the stew here.
0:47:33 > 0:47:36Now I can already put the butter, 100 grams.
0:47:36 > 0:47:39- Yeah, put it all in. - There. Wonderful.
0:47:40 > 0:47:43- How much?- 250 grams of that.
0:47:43 > 0:47:47This is the taleggio that I use this time.
0:47:47 > 0:47:50A wonderful cheese, very creamy. Could be done with fontina as well.
0:47:50 > 0:47:54Can you grate also about 100 grams of Parmesan, Gennaro?
0:47:54 > 0:47:57- Yeah.- Stir it, stir it.
0:47:59 > 0:48:02- Let me just remove all this from here.- Wonderful.
0:48:06 > 0:48:07Look at this.
0:48:08 > 0:48:11This is just like a cream.
0:48:15 > 0:48:18What you do now, you put just in the middle here.
0:48:18 > 0:48:19Antonio, hurry up.
0:48:24 > 0:48:27- You work that way. - Cut a little channel there,
0:48:27 > 0:48:29and the best thing is to share it.
0:48:29 > 0:48:32This is a small version, but there are versions that are
0:48:32 > 0:48:35as big as a table, with lots of polenta,
0:48:35 > 0:48:38lots of stew, just fantastic.
0:48:38 > 0:48:40- Nice with a lovely big family.- Mmm.
0:48:40 > 0:48:42It's fantastic.
0:48:42 > 0:48:43Cheers, Antonio.
0:48:59 > 0:49:01'But what if you don't have a family?
0:49:01 > 0:49:07'What if you have fallen out with them or turned your back on them?
0:49:08 > 0:49:13'We were off to the countryside near Rimini to meet a huge family,
0:49:13 > 0:49:19'one which breaks all traditions but thrives on its passion for food.'
0:49:19 > 0:49:22- Look at the grapes hanging off the vine there.- Yeah, incredible.
0:49:22 > 0:49:26Antonio, look, there's a complex there. It is unbelievable.
0:49:26 > 0:49:30This is a medical centre. We have for everybody here free medical care
0:49:30 > 0:49:35and there's people suffering from HIV and they can stay here...
0:49:35 > 0:49:39- So you have got everything here? - Yes, it's a...little town.
0:49:39 > 0:49:43'People join this family when they stray off course
0:49:43 > 0:49:49'and find themselves in a dark place in life.
0:49:49 > 0:49:51'This is a refuge for people
0:49:51 > 0:49:55'who have cut those family ties everybody needs.
0:49:55 > 0:50:02'San Patrignano is an extraordinary charity which helps people with serious drug problems.
0:50:02 > 0:50:06'It's home for nearly 2,000 men and women.
0:50:06 > 0:50:13'People come here from prison, from the streets, from the chaos of broken lives.
0:50:13 > 0:50:16'They stay at least four years and learn to live again.
0:50:16 > 0:50:23'And they do it by producing fantastic Italian food which sells round the world.
0:50:23 > 0:50:26'The charming Monica Luppi showed us how
0:50:26 > 0:50:33'everything grown on the 600 acres is used to train recovering addicts.
0:50:35 > 0:50:38'The home-grown meat goes to these butchers.
0:50:38 > 0:50:43'Their salamis and their hams are famous in Italy.
0:50:43 > 0:50:47'With the grapes they learn to make wonderful award-winning wines.'
0:50:47 > 0:50:49Mamma mia!
0:50:49 > 0:50:51'Half a million litres a year.'
0:50:51 > 0:50:53There's just so much wine.
0:50:53 > 0:50:58'And in a family with so many mouths to feed, everyone learns to cook.'
0:50:58 > 0:51:03Monica, all those people, before coming here, they didn't have anything to do with food?
0:51:03 > 0:51:08Most of them, no. I think when you're in a situation of drug addiction,
0:51:08 > 0:51:14you don't give importance to the small things in life that are at the end the real pleasures.
0:51:14 > 0:51:19Food is one of these, so one of the basics here
0:51:19 > 0:51:22is appreciating the hard work that goes into it,
0:51:22 > 0:51:25so nothing here is made, you know...the short cut,
0:51:25 > 0:51:31because with patience and love and passion is the only way that you will reach the final product.
0:51:31 > 0:51:33'We were so impressed.
0:51:33 > 0:51:40'It's hard to believe that not long ago clever boys like Federico were sleeping rough.'
0:51:40 > 0:51:44How do you feel to be inside here for about a year now?
0:51:44 > 0:51:49At the beginning it was very strange, I was a little disappointed
0:51:49 > 0:51:56and I was not used to staying together with people without drugs, because outside I was using heroin.
0:51:56 > 0:51:58- Heroin?- Yes, heroin...
0:51:58 > 0:52:00- And now it's off?- Now it's off.
0:52:00 > 0:52:05- Good, and the most important thing, that you see that life has another aspect.- Yes.
0:52:05 > 0:52:07And you can use life for different things.
0:52:07 > 0:52:14Every day, making cheese, you can improve every day, step by step,
0:52:14 > 0:52:16see your limits and go...
0:52:16 > 0:52:19- Further.- Further every day, yes. - One step at a time.
0:52:19 > 0:52:24And also here in San Patrignano we always make cheese, not by our own,
0:52:24 > 0:52:30but we make it with other persons. We have a big family.
0:52:30 > 0:52:34Tell me, how many litres of milk inside here?
0:52:34 > 0:52:35550 litres.
0:52:35 > 0:52:38And how much cheese do you get out?
0:52:38 > 0:52:40About 100 kilos.
0:52:40 > 0:52:42So, 20 kilos of ricotta...
0:52:42 > 0:52:47100 kilos of squacquerone and 25 kilos of ricotta.
0:52:52 > 0:52:55Mamma mia, Antonio!
0:52:57 > 0:53:00The taste is fantastic.
0:53:00 > 0:53:05'Andrea is very proud of all the different cheeses they produce.'
0:53:10 > 0:53:13- Oh, bastardo.- Si.
0:53:23 > 0:53:28'These are not just cheeses. They are Andrea's passion and joy,
0:53:28 > 0:53:31'a passion which may have saved his life.'
0:53:55 > 0:53:58- Viva Italia! - THEY LAUGH
0:54:01 > 0:54:04That's very interesting. Have a look.
0:54:04 > 0:54:09This is to produce holes so that the sausage can...
0:54:09 > 0:54:11- Breathe.- ..breathe.
0:54:11 > 0:54:13So if I do, cho, cho, cho, cho, cho
0:54:13 > 0:54:17and then, because you're always losing weight, and you go... HE INHALES
0:54:17 > 0:54:20This Antonio Carluccio and a different style.
0:54:20 > 0:54:22This is the easy way to lose weight.
0:54:22 > 0:54:24- I lose weight without it. - Yeah, I know.
0:54:24 > 0:54:26It's 25 years, I'm still waiting.
0:54:29 > 0:54:32This is our dining room.
0:54:32 > 0:54:34Oh, my God!
0:54:36 > 0:54:39One important thing is this is always called the dining room.
0:54:39 > 0:54:43It's not a cafeteria, it's not a mess hall, it's a dining room,
0:54:43 > 0:54:46because it's a big version of your home.
0:54:46 > 0:54:48'Mealtimes are important here.
0:54:48 > 0:54:54'It's a rule that everyone eats together, just like in a traditional Italian family.'
0:54:54 > 0:54:58When somebody arrives here, they arrive alone, but they always
0:54:58 > 0:55:03meet right away one person that will be like their big brother.
0:55:03 > 0:55:07Around that there is a group, like you see in the cheese shop or in the butcher's shop,
0:55:07 > 0:55:12that becomes like their family, cos most people here never really felt
0:55:12 > 0:55:14like they fit somewhere and they were accepted.
0:55:14 > 0:55:18I never eat at home with...
0:55:18 > 0:55:21other people, only by myself.
0:55:21 > 0:55:23So it's a new feeling.
0:55:23 > 0:55:26In one year you just start a little to know yourself.
0:55:26 > 0:55:28Just a little.
0:55:34 > 0:55:38We are eating here home-made tagliatelle
0:55:38 > 0:55:43and little pomodorini, little tomatoes, with a bit of arugula
0:55:43 > 0:55:45and a little bit of sausage.
0:55:45 > 0:55:48It is delicious. A little Parmesan on top.
0:55:48 > 0:55:53Very light and easy, cooked by chefs that have been instructed here.
0:55:53 > 0:55:56Maria is one of the mothers of this family.
0:55:56 > 0:56:00- She's been here since the '70s. - GENNARO SPEAKS ITALIAN
0:56:00 > 0:56:04Maria has taught very many people here how to cook through the years.
0:56:04 > 0:56:07The Italian mothers show their love through food.
0:56:08 > 0:56:12Who produces food gives love to the people,
0:56:12 > 0:56:15and if you miss that you're going to miss the rest of life.
0:56:15 > 0:56:20We're always running around, but to really sit here and enjoy and taste something
0:56:20 > 0:56:25and say to somebody else, "Taste this," that's like a connection that you made with someone.
0:56:25 > 0:56:30I really am flabbergasted with what I can see here.
0:56:30 > 0:56:31Congratulations.
0:56:31 > 0:56:35Don't have to congratulate me. Congratulate all those people behind you.
0:56:35 > 0:56:39They are the ones that were always considered hopeless.
0:56:39 > 0:56:42And I want to welcome you to our family as well.
0:56:42 > 0:56:44That's fantastic.
0:56:44 > 0:56:46I feel...
0:56:46 > 0:56:48I feel really part of it.
0:56:49 > 0:56:51It is marvellous.
0:56:51 > 0:56:53Er...
0:56:53 > 0:56:56- I don't know what to say. Thank you. - You're part of our family now too.
0:56:56 > 0:57:01Any time, you know, you can come here. The medicine here is love
0:57:01 > 0:57:04and you cannot buy it.
0:57:04 > 0:57:06It's free.
0:57:06 > 0:57:08'Ah, it's the old story.
0:57:08 > 0:57:11'Life's two principal functions.
0:57:11 > 0:57:14'All you need is food and love.'
0:57:26 > 0:57:32Through the journey, I thought that the Italian sense of family was sort of abandoned,
0:57:32 > 0:57:37but altogether I must say that it's a transformation
0:57:37 > 0:57:44and I am very sort of pleased to see that in certain forms the family goes on,
0:57:44 > 0:57:49even if the families, they take another sort of twist.
0:57:49 > 0:57:53So do you agree with me the love and passion of food is still here?
0:57:53 > 0:57:56Yes. Gennaro, I see here something fantastic.
0:57:56 > 0:58:00You always see right at the end something.
0:58:00 > 0:58:04Ripe from the tree, and you just put in the mouth and is delight.
0:58:07 > 0:58:08Mmm.
0:58:08 > 0:58:11Make less noise, please.
0:58:11 > 0:58:13A fruit of Italy.
0:58:15 > 0:58:20'Next time, we are going to Naples and Amalfi coast.
0:58:20 > 0:58:23'Where Antonio was born and I grew up.'
0:58:23 > 0:58:27But this is the bell which I've been hearing since I was a little boy.
0:58:27 > 0:58:32'We'll see how the most popular food in the world was invented by the coolest people.'
0:58:32 > 0:58:34Pizza fritta.
0:58:34 > 0:58:35Instant food.
0:58:35 > 0:58:38'Gennaro will be reliving his youth.
0:58:38 > 0:58:42'And we'll find out what change here since we were boys.'
0:58:42 > 0:58:45Oh, 24 carat gold. It must cost quite a bit of money.
0:58:45 > 0:58:48'We'll be cooking some fantastic food from my region.
0:58:48 > 0:58:51'And eating it.'
0:58:52 > 0:58:53Wow!
0:58:53 > 0:58:57Oh! Direct from the tree.
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