city of togas and gladiators, power and intrigue, empire and ruin, and of course la dolce vita - the good life. i m stanley tucci. i m italian on both sides and 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. the famous ancients of rome once ruled the world. -but i m here to discover how it s the food of ordinary romans that has conquered our hearts. but i m going to warn you, if you re on a low carb diet beware. you re going to see a lot of pasta in this show. i mean, like, a lot of it. like, a lot. i ve been visiting rome for decades. its beauty and history still leave me breathless but sometimes it s difficult to find a good meal if you don t know where to look. rome is situated in lazio, a region sometimes overlooked in favour of its grander gastronomic neighbours like tuscany and umbria. but lazio has fed rome for centuries and every part of the sheep and pigs raised here is put to use i
and sheets of pasta many of the partisans who stood up to mussolini lived in these very streets. and the great access railyards from which troops and supplies are poured into southern italy are blasted. tucci: during world war two, this area bore the brunt of allied bombings that aimed to disrupt the nearby rail hub. tragically, over a thousand people were killed. this is in essence like a monument. yeah, you can see the effect of the war. yeah. people died, the families died and all this area is bombed. this particular square was home to a hugely popular local trattoria before the war. the owner s wife and all but one of their children died when their building was hit during the bombing. after the war the local community raised funds for the surviving father and son to reopen the restaurant
make them weak, lazy and even sexually impotent and that a high protein diet would make them more productive and war-like. the campaign was clearly not a success. when the fascism arrived a big part of italy is with mussolini. yeah. but 30-40% is against mussolini. in fact pasta actually became a powerful symbol of the resistance against his fascist regime. armed with their guns and sheets of pasta many of the partisans who stood up to mussolini lived in these very streets. and the great access railyards from which troops and supplies are poured into southern italy are blasted. tucci: during world war two, this area bore the brunt of allied bombings that aimed to disrupt the nearby rail hub. tragically, over a thousand people were killed. this is in essence like a monument.
in fact pasta actually became a powerful symbol of the resistance against his fascist regime. armed with their guns and sheets of pasta many of the partisans who stood up to mussolini lived in these very streets. and the great access railyards from which troops and supplies are poured into southern italy are blasted. tucci: during world war two, this area bore the brunt of allied bombings that aimed to disrupt the nearby rail hub. tragically, over a thousand people were killed. this is in essence like a monument. yeah, you can see the effect of the war. yeah. people died, the families died and all this area is bombed. this particular square was home to a hugely popular local trattoria before the war. the owner s wife and all but one of their children died when their building was hit during the bombing. after the war the local community raised funds for the surviving father and son to
who stood up to mussolini lived in these very streets. and the great access railyards from which troops and supplies are poured into southern italy are blasted by during world war ii, this area bore the brunt of allied bombings that aimed to disrupt the nearby rail hub. tragically, over a thousand people were killed. this is in essence like a monument. yeah, you can see the effect of the war. yeah. people died, the families died and all this area is bombed. this particular square was home to a hugely popular local trattoria before the war. the owner s wife and all but one of their children died when their building was hit during the bombing. after the war, the local community raised funds for the surviving father and son to reopen the restaurant again. the boy started work here aged just 8 and amazingly he s still here today.