there s a story that goes when god created the world, he took all the leftover bits and wanted to make something beautiful with them. so he made sardinia. and there s something to that. sardinia is really an island of bits and pieces in the best possible way. each local community is like an island of its own with widely varying geography, languages. you also caught lobster? yes. and food. wow. put together, you get a region with a ferocious independent streak. women have the power here. cheers. a little bit italian and a little bit something else entirely. man, it s incredible. i m stanley tucci. i m fascinated by my italian heritage so i m travelling across italy to discover how the food in each of this country s 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. oh, he s between my legs. sardinia is italy s wild west. [bleep] it! and although they respect tradition, things here are never dull. argh! out here, nothing stands in the way of t
there s a story that goes when god created the world, he took all the left over bits and wanted to make something beautiful with them. so he made sardinia. and there s something to that. sardinia is really an island of bits and pieces in the best possible way. each local community is like an island of its own with widely varying geography, languages. you also caught lobster? yes. and food. wow. put together, you get a region with a ferocious independent streak. women have the power here. cheers. a little bit italian and a little bit something else entirely. man, it s incredible. i m stanley tucci. i m fascinated by my italian heritage so i m travelling across italy to discover how the food in each of this country s 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. oh, he s between my legs. sardinia is italy s wild west. [bleep] it! and although they respect tradition, things here are never dull. argh! out here, nothing stands in the way o
life. she bought it. this used to be a school, and this is an old grocery shop. here, a small wine cellar. simonetta fears that ancient ways of cooking could be lost as people leave the island. so, she s restoring these buildings and creating a pioneering cooking school here. my goal is to encourage the sardinian youth to stay here. i want to bring my family s village back to life. as part of her mission, she s been gathering the island s endangered recipes. so far, she s discovered over a thousand types of bread, often created for special occasions. what is that? this is the bread for easter. and we make it to give children. oh really? it looks a mummy. yeah. yeah. one of the island s most celebrated bread recipes is pane carasau, a 3,000-year-old flatbread. traditionally, women would come together to produce large batches all at once, and simonetta has brought in two
left its own mark on the island s capital. so much so that eating here is like going on the culinary equivalent of an archaeological dig. this is gorgeous. and there s some beautiful fish. letitia has taken me to san benedetto market to some excavating. what s it called? parago. parago? is it like an orata? you can cook it in the oven with potatoes. the fruits of the mediterranean sea are everywhere you look. but for letitia there s one delicacy from far-off shores that trumps all the others. good morning. okay, so this is bottarga which is one of sardinia s most prized, most celebrated, most delicious products. put simply, bottarga is fish roe that s first salted the cured. this method of preservation was invented over 3,000 years ago by the phoenicians. these renowned seafarers brought bottarga here from modern-day
where there s a trend, we re ahead of it. where there s a gap we bridge it. where there s your moment, we help you grab it. those who know the island well say there are really two sardinia s. the coast with its many foreign occupations and multi-cultural mixings, and up here 50 miles into the island s interior. amongst the thistles and the thorns, this harsh brutal landscape. it s a place where people have always retreated to escape marauding armies where little has changed for millennia. these structures here are known as nuragi. they were built by people who