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that means it's the green heart of italy. not a jealous heart but a fertile one. arriving in early fall, i chart a course through umbria's ancient forests and misty mountains. this is italy before the romans. a place where families live close to the land. a land of saintly legends, impossibly perched hilltop towns and rustic cuisine. wow. stop filming and just eat it. cheers. 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. umbrian food isn't about expen...

fertile one. arriving in early fall, i charter course through the ancient forests and misty mountains. this is italy before the romans. a place where families lived close to the land. a land of saintly legends, impossibly pernled uphill towns and perfect cuisine. i'm stanley tuchy. i'm italian on both sides, and i'm traveling across the country to discover foods and their ties to the past. umbrian food isn't about expensive restaurants. it's all about the skill and hard work that goes into producing its precious raw ingredients. from innovative farmers to noble hunters. and let's not...

the berlin wall had just fallen. all over east germany angry crowds roamed the streets, lashing out at symbols of communist rule. that night in dresden they found a target, the local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later the crowd grew larger. inside peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. >> he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. >> putin was a junior officer. but the boss was away. he was in charge. >> the berlin wall in come down. police weren't going to help. and he called for in...

people and their past. [speaking foreign language]. >> umbrian food isn't about expensive restaurants or tricky techniques. it's all about the skill and hard work that goes into producing precious raw ingredients, from innovative farmers to noble hunters. and let's not forget the chefs and butchers preserving the traditional ways to cook these treasures of the land. [speaking foreign language]. >> and a note for any vegetarians watching. umbrian eat a lot of meat. a lot of pork. like a lot of it. huge amounts of it. >> i surrender to the pork. ♪ umbria is named after the umbri. o...

a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger. inside peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. ♪ >> he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. >> putin was a junior officer, but the boss was away. he was in charge. >> the berlin wall had come down. police weren't going to help, and he called for instructions. >> desperate for help, putin dialed kgb headquarters in moscow over and over again. finally one official told him simply moscow is silent. >> and i think it felt like a deep betrayal ...