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is beautiful. but calabria means something more to me. its my ancestral homeland. and i want to get to know the region that my family left behind all those years ago. >> is this jogging your memory at all? >> thats a long time ago. >> 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. caught between a rock and the sea, the calabrese are notoriously tough. >> bu...

i really have very few memories of it. >> ive been dreaming of coming back to calabria since i was a boy. i dont remember it being this green. its absolutely beautiful. its a wild and rugged region steeped in mystery and myth, a place thats as troubled as it is beautiful. but calabria means something more to me. its my ancestral homeland. and i want to get to know the region that my family left behind all those years ago. is this jogging your memory at all? >> thats a long time ago. >>...

theres 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 theres 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 hav...

i really have very few memories of it. >> ive been dreaming of coming back since i was a boy. i dont remember it being this green. its a place as troubled as beautiful will you it means something more to me. its my ancestry homeland and im italian on both sides traveling across it lee to discover how the food in the 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. caught between a rock and the sea, they are notoriously tough. >> you should open a restaurant. [ laughter ] >> and in...

>> theres 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 theres 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...

i dont remember it being this green. its absolutely beautiful. >> its a wild and rugged region steeped in mystery and myth, a place thats as troubled as it is beautiful. but calabria means something more to me. its my ancestral homeland. and i want to get to know the region that my family left behind all those years ago. >> is this jogging your memory at all? >> thats a long time ago. >> im stanley tucci. im italian on both sides, and im traveling across italy to discover how the food ...

oh, wow. steep. is this -- okay, here we are, finally. i had no idea it was that far. so ive just made my way up thousands of steps to this place, castle brown, which is in portofino, which is in liguria. and liguria is a crescent right on the coast of italy, bordering tuscany and france. theyll carry me out of here on a stretcher, but i dont mind because the food is amazing. >> im stanley tucci. im fascinated by my italian heritage, so im traveling across italy to discover how the foo...

Grazie, grazie. ill take some potatoes. >> oh, i love that. >> grazie. >> salute e cin cin. >> cin cin. >> the region my family left behind all those years ago is still as troubled as it is beautiful. >> oh, my god. >> but the true magic of this land is how it inspires people here to do things that are equally as beautiful and how everywhere you go, you will be treated like family. >> a tutto noi. ♪

>> buon appetito. >> ill take some potatoes. >> oh, i love that. >> grazie. >> salute e cin cin. >> cin cin. >> the region my family left behind all those years ago is still as troubled as it is beautiful. >> oh, my god. >> but the true magic of this land is how it inspires people here to do things that are equally as beautiful and how everywhere you go, you will be treated like family. >> a tutto noi. ♪

That. >> yep. >> right? beautiful. >> for our family, theres always been a strange and magical bond with food that drives so much of what we do. >> i believe that the food we enjoy together strengthens the bonds we will share forever. >> buon appetito. >> ill take some potatoes. >> oh, i love that. >> grazie. >> salute e cin cin. >> cin cin. >> the region my family left behind all those years ago is still as troubled as it is beautiful. >> oh, my god. >> but the true magic of this land is how it...