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Stanley Tucci – Searching For Italy – Travel Show

Stanley Tucci – Searching For Italy

Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci travels across Italy to discover the secrets and delights of the country’s regional cuisines. 2 seasons, 14 episodes.

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Streaming on SBS On Demand, free. And on Prime, was broadcast on CNN, initially.

Every restaurant from Season 1 of Stanley Tucci’s Searching For Italy!

Searching For Italy, Season One:

S01 E06 · Sicily
Stanley Tucci visits Sicily. Here, Stanley tries a salty and crunchy sensation, tastes the grapes grown in the region’s unique soils, and reflects on the nature of Sicilian hospitality.

S01 E05 · Tuscany
Stanley explores his former home of Tuscany; he participates in a wine bar crawl, celebrates the importance of the lowly loaf and samples dishes which use stale bread as the key ingredient.

S01 E04 · Milan
Stanley Tucci eats and drinks his way around Milan as he enjoys an aperitivo, feels inspired to make pizzoccheri, looks at a noodle made from buckwheat and relishes classic Milanese veal chops and risotto.

S01 E03 · Bologna
Stanley Tucci explores Bologna, seen by many as the food capital of Italy. The region of Emilia-Romagna is home to a handful of globally renowned and protected food products.

S01 E02 · Rome
Stanley heads to Rome in search of the famous four pastas, orders rigatoni all’amatriciana, samples carbonara and tries a selection of cheeses and sausages made from the sheep and pigs farmed in the region.

S01 E01 · Naples and the Amalfi Coast
Feasting on the best pizza in Naples on a whirlwind tour to find the freshest mozzarella and the best San Marzano tomatoes, and highlighting a spectacular dish of spaghetti and courgette.

Searching For Italy, Season Two:

S02 E08 · Liguria
Tucci visits the Italian Riviera, famous for the glamour of Portofino and the fishing villages of the Cinque Terre. He tries Genoese pesto and discovers how Ligurians have learned to adapt to life in the difficult landscape.

S02 E07 · Puglia
Tucci visits Puglia, a region famous for its fragrant olive oil, beautiful vegetables, cheeses, and durum wheat, and discovers how the Pugliese own their past and embrace the future on their own terms.

S02 E06 · Sardinia
Tucci visits the island of Sardinia, Italy, famous for its harsh, rugged landscape, crystal blue ocean, and passionately preserved traditions; Tucci learns how Sardinian food culture varies wildly throughout the island.

S02 E05 · Calabria
Tucci discovers the history of beautiful and troubled Calabria, Italy, as well as the history of his own family. His parents and Italian relatives join him as he reflects on the inspiration people draw from Calabria and why those who leave return.

S02 E04 · London
Stanley Tucci explores how Italian immigration transformed the food scene in his adopted hometown of London. The city is a culinary mecca where Italian food from every region gets a chance to shine.

S02 E03 · Umbria
Stanley Tucci visits Umbria, nicknamed `The Green Heart of Italy’, with the highest consumption of pork per capita, Umbria is a carnivore’s dream, from wild boar hunts to black truffle farms, Stanley explores all Umbria has to offer.

S02 E02 · Piedmont
Stanley Tucci visits the region that made the dream of a unified Italy a reality. Piedmont boasts a refined French heritage and peasant traditions from the Middle Ages. Once the engine room of Italian industrialisation, Piedmont is now spearheading a slow food revolution. Between reimagined risotto and the elusive white truffle, Stanley uncovers a region with an illustrious past but with its sights firmly set on the future.

S02 E01 · Venice
Stanley explores the city’s fascinating food culture due to its aquatic environment, as well as the countless influences from around the world throughout its vast and storied history.