people here do things their own way. take the energy of new york and mix in the gritty elegance of new orleans. add 3,000 years of history and cook it all up in the heat of the world s most famous volcano. that is napoli. i m stanley tucci. i m italian on both sides and i m traveling across italy to discover how the food in each of this country s 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. in the south we are very used to fight. this place may be looked down on as the poverty-stricken underdog of italy. but the people who live in this region have their own way of doing things. for me this is our philosophy. this is our style, our tradition. they ve given the world its favorite food. pizza margherita. just don t forget where it was invented. if pizza was going to be born anywhere, it would be here in naples. the city is hot, fast, and a feast for the senses. naples is situated in campania. it s the unofficial capital of the italian south and is even older
engulfed by a magnificent chaos and there s no point in fighting it. people here do things their own way. take the energy of new york, mix in the gritty elegance of new orleans, add 3,000 years of history and cook it all up in the heat of the world s most famous volcano. that is napoli. i m stanley tucci. i m italian on both sides and i m traveling across italy to discover how the food in each of this country s 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. in the south, we are very used to fight. this place may be looked down on as the poverty-stricken underdog of italy. but the people who live in this region have their own way of doing things. for me, this is our philosophy. this is our style and tradition. they ve given the world its favorite food. favorite food. pizza margarita! just don t forget where it was invented. [upbeat piano music] if pizza was going to be born anywhere, it would be here in naples. the city is hot, fast, and a feast for the senses.
pizza margherita. pizza, pizza. as we walk off some of those calories, elisabetta tells me how pizza was born in these streets from quite unpromising beginnings. well, mostly they were selling bread with a little bit of fat on it. sometimes pepper, because you know people were really poor. then, at a certain point, people here invented pizza. but for many years it was just a neapolitan taste and a neapolitan dish. because cholera also played a significant role in its attitudes? yes. it did. it did for centuries. thankfully for us, by the late 19th century, the italian prejudice against naples and its food began to change. and elisabetta is taking me to the place where, according to legend, in 1889, the italian queen ordered a pizza that went on to bear her name, the margherita. do you make pizza at home ever? in naples, it s almost forbidden. well, there s no point. the only problem was during lockdown all the pizzerias were
because cholera also played a significant role in its attitudes? yes. it did. it did for centuries. thankfully for us, by the late 19th century, the italian prejudice against naples and its food began to change. and elisabetta is taking me to the place where, according to legend, in 1889 the italian queen ordered a pizza that went on to bear her name, the margherita. do you make pizza at home ever? in naples, it s almost forbidden. well, there s no point. the only problem was during lockdown all the pizzerias were closed. that was really bad. yeah. you know, the first day after the lockdown, 60,000 pizzas were made the same day. really? yes. and they were not sufficient because everybody wanted a pizza first of all. because they were so desperate? yeah. first the pizza and then the vaccine! in the streets of naples, pizza grew out of one pandemic and sustained the city through another. what was born in a place consumed by death is now a food
because cholera also played a significant role. yes it did. in its attitudes. it did for centuries. thankfully for us, by the late 19th century, the italian prejudice against naples and its food began to change and elisabetta s taken me to the place where, according to legend, in 1889 the italian queen ordered a pizza that went on to bear her name, the margherita. do you make pizza at home ever? in naples it s almost forbidden. there s no point. the only problem was during lockdown, all the pizzerias were closed. that was really bad. yeah. you know the first day after lockdown, 60,000 pizzas were made same day. really? yes and they were not sufficient because everybody wanted a pizza. because they were desperate. yeah. first the pizza then the vaccine. in the streets of naples, pizza