Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy

Venice

Stanley Tucci visits the "Floating City" of Venice. Stanley explores the city's fascinating food culture due to its aquatic environment, as well as the countless influences from around the world throughout its vast and storied history.

Piedmont

Stanley Tucci visits the region that made the dream of unified Italy a reality. Piedmont boasts refined French heritage, precious peasant traditions and is now spearheading a slow food revolution.

Umbria

Stanley Tucci visits Umbria, nicknamed "The Green Heart of Italy." With the highest consumption of pork per capita, Umbria is a carnivore’s dream. From wild boar hunts to black truffle farms, Stanley explores all Umbria has to offer.

London

Stanley Tucci explores how Italian immigration transformed the food scene in his adopted hometown of London. London is a culinary mecca where Italian food from every region gets a chance to shine. It may even rival Italy itself!

Calabria

Tucci discovers the history of beautiful and troubled Calabria, as well as the history of his own family. Joined by his parents and reunited with Italian relatives, he reflects on the inspiration people draw from Calabria, and why those who leave feel compelled to return.

Puglia

Tucci visits Puglia, a region famous for its fragrant olive oil, beautiful vegetables, cheeses and durum wheat. Despite being such a fertile region, Puglia is one of Italy's poorest regions, and he discovers how the Pugliese own their past and embrace the future on their own terms.

Sardinia

Tucci visits the island of Sardinia, famous for its harsh, rugged landscape, crystal-blue ocean and passionately preserved traditions. Tucci learns how Sardinian food culture varies wildly throughout the island, from the culinary delights of its coastal cities to its rural heart, which remains untouched by outsider influence.

Liguria

Tucci visits one of the most famous and frequented regions of Italy, the Italian Riviera, famous for the glitz glamour of Portofino and stunning, picture-perfect fishing villages of the Cinque Terre. He tries Genoese pesto and discovers how Ligurians have learned to adapt to life in the difficult landscape.