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trading empire. silks, spices, ideas and money, lots of it. the venetians live between earth and water. its shaped their character, salty, wise and ingenuous. >> i have never seen anyone do that before. >> im stanley tucci. im italian on both sides and im traveling across italy to discover how the food in each of this countrys 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. >> may i? thank you. how are you? >> good. >> good. >> surrounded by wetlands, these people are hunters. >>...

And shoot these ducks so that they would make sure that they had a big enough supply. >> whoa. >> theres beautiful paintings in venetian artists depicting these scenes in the lagoon. they would serve these ducks in any kind of -- you know, there was duck fricasse, roast duck, all sorts of duck. >> oh, my god. >> yeah. >> to reach the doges happy hunting ground you head west out of the city about 20 miles as the duck flies. it is an environment hard to describe as mainland. the solid-to-liquid ra...

Them. so it meant 5,000 ducks. >> 5,000 ducks. >> 5,000 ducks before christmas. so imagine the rush. they had special state-run boats that would go out in the lagoon and shoot these ducks so that they would make sure that they had a big enough supply. >> whoa. >> there are some beautiful paintings in venetian artists depicting the scenes in the lagoon. knelled serve these ducks in any kind of -- you know there was duck frick a see. stew duck, all sorts of -- quack quack. >> oh, my god. >> yeah. ...

Ducks to every member of the main legislative body in venice. but there were about 1,000 of them. so it went 5,000 ducks. >> 5,000 ducks? >> 5,000 ducks before christmas. so imagine the rush. they had special state-run boats that would go out in the lagoon and shoot these ducks so that they would make sure that they had the big enough supply. >> whoa! >> a beautiful painting. the venetian artists depicting these in the lagoon. they would serve them in any kind of, there was ducks, stewed duck, a...

>> they would go out of the lagoon to shoot these ducks to make sure they have big enough supply. they should sort these ducks, there were stew ducks and roast ducks and some quack, quack. >> omnih my god. >> you head west out of the city about 20 miles as the duck flies. it is an environment hard to describe as mainland. the solid to liquid ratio shift becomes a vast wetland. okay, for this kind of hunt, you have to get up before the ducks and they get up before daybreak.