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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 doin...

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 m this is a philosop...

>> 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 prejudi...

>> ready? this delicious pocket of history was pizza before pizza was pizza. with the pork and the ricotta. >> yeah, it's very tasty. >> 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.

♪ fernanda. this delicious pocket of history was pizza before pizza was pizza. with the pork and the ricotta -- >> it's very tasty. >> as we walk off some of those calories, elisabetta tells me how pizza was born in these streets from quite unpromising beginnings. >> 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 played a significant role. >> yes, it did. >> in attitudes....