>> hi. >> ciao stanley, welcome. >> hi, how are you? >> we will leave her now because she's the master. >> she'll kick you out anyway. >> yeah, yeah. >> this was my job when i was a kid. my mother would give me the mushrooms and i would have to brush them off. not ones we found, ones we bought but that was my job. what are you making? >> polenta. and what we do and this is the recipe of the house, i don't know where it comes from, we put in the water a piece of garlic. it will leave a flavour. >> yeah, yeah, that's nice, yeah. but you know a lot about the food of lombardy, this area. >> polenta in the ancient times, it was like the bread. you eat it warm with meat if you're lucky or you would have eaten it with cheese, or you would eat it just with butter. or my favourite dish as a child was polenta e latte, warm polenta and cold milk. >> you know, people from south of italy call us from north of italy'polentoni'because we eat polenta. >> oh is that true, really? >> usually you accompany it with juice and in this case we have e'un brasato. braised with