Two Greedy Italians – Bologna

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In my opinion life has two principal functions nourishment and procreation food and family when we were boys Italians were very good at books you know in all the films you always see this wonderful scene of uh Italian eating together and it’s still happening that I am very worried surely

Antonio the family is such a big thing in Italy I am not so sure anymore we come to ailia Romana in the north of Italy we want to see if Italian families still eat together like they used to and if Italian masam are still teach their

Daughters how to cook and to do the old ideas about the Italian family even still apply we are off to lunch with some old friends near Mona the home of samic vinegar J I always believe that Italy has at least two three millions of M Star

Chefs the mama the mothers oh yes oh yes the Granny’s all those people that they really teach you me and everybody else what really Italian food is about and tonight we are invited you know by who Mama yeah ah theob they are family the masam look after the house and do all the

Cooking the man when they are at home just relax we had a straight for the kitchen tortellini fresh pasta filled with a family res recipe of pork parmesan and balsamic vinegar all Italian recipes started like this in families handed down from Mama to daughter to granddaughter and refined over

Centuries look how many people she has to teach so they love to the job because they want to carry on the tradition of this wonderful food they call them Venus navels symbols of love wrapping each fidly little parcel is hard work it can take a whole day to make just enough for

Sunday lunch so no weekend shopping spree for these young girls but they don’t see to mind when you close totally you know uh All Your Love Clos in this total you know and I have a little piece of pasta eat love it’s really nice in an Italian home the most

Important thing is laa the dining table this is a family table I think what is experience this table I saw almost everything this table it is where you cry table where you actually fell in love with somebody table where you leave somebody table were divorc table is happiness and joy

You know wedding christening celebrity all happen in a table table where you kiss somebody on the side of over the table and even can make a laugh even jumping and joy dancing on the table table is so important this is the joy of family and is it all along here bless this

Table high up in the jakobi Villa the family fortune silently ferments in ancient barrels balsamic vinegar there is a feeling of calm in here it’s like entering the Vault of family ancestors 1893 still vinegar the balsamic is made by the women of the house the secrets have been handed down

Five Generation by jakobi Grandmothers this is Bal Trad matured for up to 35 years a complex warm taste still a lot of fruit after so many years a liter of this velvety nectar would cost £2,000 it is precious stuff I could stay here forever together with the Vinegar T the most wonderful thing is the tortellini in bro there exactly how should it be little Parcels of love everyone unique made with time patience and devotion it must be comforting for non Mel to know that she will always be a presence at this table this is how I remember things when

I was a little boy maybe not quite such a beautiful house but the whole family eating Mama’s food together like This no I enjoyed it very much I know you have enjoyed it yesterday I can see you yeah it is fantastic to have the feeling of being in a family again because um more or less I don’t have a family I have some a brother and the

Sister uh but I live alone and um it’s quite good to be from time to time confronted what a family is and the advantage of a family I have six children Antonio wait a minute I know of three ant I am Antonio Antonio listen to me yeah I’m glad that somebody produces

Children n children is love yeah stay there tell me who give you a flow the first thing in the morning that’s perfect don’t e No this particular dish is actually bring lot of memory back d d dund Dunder is never heard of it well dund is dialect it means ricotta dumpling and then I have a picture there with my mom every time I do a dish which uh you know my mother used to make it always

And I don’t understand why the way my mother used to make I can never get near to that so when they actually cook this dish it’s your mom here yeah obvious you that is nice memory but first I will have the flour which is 200 g more more

More more more more more fine 200 g of dead on then I need 220 G mhm of a rotter tell me when yeah now is okay then you only use the yolk of egg one two yeah three and have the recot inside can you pass me a fork please where’s the fork here

That’s good then I mix a little bit the eggs will hold all together then I will have parmesan 20 G to 30 G of a Parmesan which you create a Parmesan inside then you have just a little touch of a nutmeg pinch of a salt pinch of pepper

And then you have the flour inside yeah and then you use the one chili because I need for you to C me this chili yeah pleasure and bunch of Basil mid wi ice slices it very finely chopped roughly chopped Antonio have you done the the chili yeah

It’s the frying pan is already hot olive oil olive oil oh lovely and hot lovely now I’m going to put the garlic and the chili inside as an a FL quick cooked sauce and I get the dund yeah every inside wonderful okay cover now it will cook for about 3 to 4

Minutes don’t take very long then I going to chop basil roughly shall I I read the pon for you yes please ah oh ah the smell is very good J yeah you sure Yeah to smell Antonio I Clos in my eyes I can see my mom I can see my sister inside next room try to prepare that table and me running around even the cats and a dog my goodness you have tears in your eyes I do want Tony I’m

Sorry that’s very C tou oh no hold on it’s not dear it’s a joy my little baby you can see they start to come up every single one the little bit heavier than other dumle with a potato because potato makes a lot but they probably tast here you’re right oh

I bless you I love it when you say that I want toast this this one I going to because I never had dund before dund put it down yeah fantastic you see here we use a parmesans yes but we used to use gold cheese can I can I just yeah you can do

His I can understand that you remember your mother in there is smell and the flavor BL cooking for the family was the most important thing in the world of our mothers but in the 1950s Italy got richer many Housewives went to work in the factories and working mamas have no time to make

Toini then in the 60s a clay Baker’s son from Theona invented a machine to must produce those little bases of BL n Joan Rani is very famous and a multimillionaire we went to see one of his factories oh wow look at this the moment one you

CL by mechanical mechanis can I yeah of course and the flow together and eggs no water not not I managed to find out how many eggs I used every day 800,000 but I am still very skeptical about the end result and I want to see it and taste

It in the old days Mr delivered his pasta on this little mopit is now the biggest fresh pasta producer in Europe I’m very happy to present and introduce you mran I love it I love it certain way I am sorry now maybe if you are angry we can

Go go to taste I am hungry me too I put my Mr Joan is Cooking Sor has also a chain of 21 restaurants serving his fresh pastan now tortellini I will become a cheap quick lunch but the proof is in the tasty The past is remarkably good and um I really don’t know what could be the difference between these and the handmade probably is a touch of love that is missing I don’t know I find them okay yeah but still prefer those you make come out nowadays fast food places are springing

Up all over Italy could this be the beginning of the end for Mama’s cooking we are off to Bologna city of towers they call it Lassa the fat one because the people in Bologna are very the bolog people are not fats they call it Lassa because he has the richest most

Fantastic food in all L Italy that’s the one stop stop stop oh God bless her Jan this is the very very famous Madonna grassa even the Madonna can be fat come on yeah well no no this the way they made her madon mad she’s so beautiful you know what here in bolognia

They say there’s such a beautiful woman really and I going to fix a date one of the most beautiful woman in bolog I can guarantee you you will di for it I am not sure but please help yourself okay can we go now shall we go

And see the rest of okay there we go madon it’s obvious why Lama means so much to Italians they also call bologa L Roa the red one because it’s leftwing and liberal if family traditions are changing anywhere they change here first but the first thing is to get our

Hands on those bolog cheeses and HS my God look at that can’t believe it soon as you walk in your eyes start to get angry you know and it’s a so much you don’t know where to go what to pick two years age the the real Pama this is Wonderland

Here is it supposed to be mine oh I am just like a child in a toy shop the Mortadella is the most underrated salami of of and it is fantastic everybody believes is just like span absolutely not it is the most wonderful thing ever and you cut it very soon

Possibly you put in for C what about cheese what kind of a cheeses shall we get this is yes kamot is One I had found the perfect place to stay in the city of towers oh my God that’s my surprise for you oh my God the pr depart Tower a medieval bed and breakfast look at this look at this that’s just wonderful and there’s the Bell that’s the Bell yeah I believe so

Antonio this is unbelievable your mad here you in a chocolate J are you a chocolate anyway I’m going out now have a nice rest is the king of the castle because there is a servant down stairs J can you give me this but I love him to bit and

He love me but he really does leave in a bit of viory Tower I live alone I couldn’t have children for various reasons first wife couldn’t have some second wife was in 7 months of marriage the last one already had children I didn’t want

Any it’s not that I feel a failure I was a bit unlucky or perhaps unprepared or whatever don’t have a wife and I will love with all my heart than to meet somebody and that really enjoy that bit which I enjoy in my family yes and I hope one day andon will do

It I feel sometimes very alone money and all of that it’s it’s it’s comes and goes and what now I’m looking for a m more love just just what I want from life actually just that Antonio do you forget me by any chance thank you very much was wine merchant for many years you know yes I know was I was wine taster for many years that’s a delicious typical of this region look almost like a bu blood for me fantastic wow gello the finest ham in

Bologa the smell this the play an I want to give it come on we have some more Fran so good four or five portion later and we carried on with our mission we were asking the question if young ladies in Italy they are still cooking I’m not interesting in cooking

I’m a crime journalist I I love my career uh and I prefer to use my spare time in doing something else probably in the old days you couldn’t have been a journalist you have the freedom today to be but you rejected completely the food which is why one of the most important

Things of Life maybe it’s a kind of total Rebellion you know yeah but you cut into yourself because you know a rebellion about food maybe not because I live by myself and what do you eat usually joh food Anon I don’t understand the old days you know if you

Could cook you couldn’t get married I don’t know I I’ve never thought about that try try to get marriage maybe not why why can’t we find a man who can cook it should be so lovely usually the man loves to make the chef wow the man is he’s doing something

Really creative original and the woman is the one that have every day to carry the dish on the on the table that’s really funny you know my girlfriend works very hard so if I want to eat at home when I come back from work I have to cook some something

Very sad and what you learned sad what do you learned that to cook from your mother your grandma from your sister more from my grandmother and I really really miss uh the old Italian family tradition anyway I hope that you all pursue whatever you like to pursue but

Remember one thing that cooking is the second best things in life the second I couldn’t believe it when I was young every woman in Italy knew how to Cook the next day I went to the art gallery to ever a Think that’s beautiful to look at the scene right there the family mother feeding the child a typical idilic Family scene some young women have clearly rebelled against old is do you know what I do not expect it I’m really surprised and I’m a chef this

Is my life I know the love and passion is on it you know my girls I’m teaching them to cook my wife knows how to cook I come from a generation of everybody Cooks inside the house Italian women are having less children nowadays and it

Seems being l Mama in a big family has lost his appeal one not see these beautiful girls or this lovely generation they can’t cook what are we going to do tomorrow in Italy come on come on don’t move Antonio I going to take the water yeah don’t move don’t move don’t move yes

Did you see the sign over there CH look yes so it’s an agency for dating people in the past that used to meet family reunions Little Village fast was a kind of romance Beyonds and now we have a place Li that uhhuh and I want to take

You in just for a pure curiosity do you think I need and no you don’t need you got me anywhere so what do you need but but curiosity you really insisting that I got you I don’t have you I don’t like you no now you say now you don’t like me

But you like me yeah but not as you think no I’m shall we go do you know what best thing is to do it for curiosity no mean it’s only professional curiosity I do this dating agencies didn’t exist When We Were Young there was no divorce now it’s on the up I was

Intrigued I had a little plan up on my sleep about 6 million people leave alone especially women 6 million people yeah my goodness there one in 10 this is very bad for the food because being sort of solo probably they don’t come to cook anymore tell me something you know if

Somebody comes along say well I want to get married I’m I needed to find a wife uh you can I help yes can you tell me one thing so there are girls that they can’t cook and even that they don’t want to cook which chances do they have to

Have a husband I don’t know but uh it’s difficult for women if uh she’s not able to cook would you like to date somebody why not why not it’s a chance do we have somebody my little plan was working Anton yes I done it yes but I’m

Not very sure well no it’s all right we’re going to get there and anyway it’s only a joke you know that of course it is a job I don’t want anything very serious here no there is nothing Ser I don’t need it I am there okay so not wor

You defend me okay defend but I promise you I we was going to find it but just because we needed to resar it was time to get Anton In the Mood for Love Senor Kucha must become Senor kasanova slowly slowly what is going on here s come on what are you

Doing sit down yes sit down first look so what is going on here tonight I going to try to seduce you you’re seducing me you’re mad in the head I’m going to make hot Amaretti chocolate pudding which you love it right look me yeah inside a pot here yes I’m going to

Put two tablespoon of a sugar yes then one tablespoon of a flour it’s good so far and the eye here oh yes this vanilla the proper vanill but did you take the seeds out of that you might just enjoy stay there I enjoy myself that’s inside here is the seeds

Of Love fertility the lot what has got into you today I have half liter yes of milk which I going to put it just for start just a little bit to stir it yes the reason why I do this because I don’t want my chocolate amarti puding it’s get

Lumpy then I will put the rest of the milk inside now to two shots of Amaretto leers you just this a really potion it’s a love potion a love potion one and two it’s about 80 mil inside it keep it s I am very curious to see how

You can let thicken with a little bit of flour of course he will why you never trust me you know what you know I can never seduce you because you already we already H you before we seduce you you can’t either in sitting or not sitting you can’t them

Around remember we never throwing away anything to Italy we Us St you want put it for me go oh thank you thank you there you are gentle such a gentle and you keep staring and then how of the blue look it start to get thicker and thicker out of the dark actually After

The Dark such a romantic evening me and romantic for you something not for me inside now I will put 100 G of plain chocolate be very careful because F your fingers you know chocolates it can be very hard you want to try to help I mean you

Very hard work to S Use Somebody come on girl get on with it did you ever make this for a woman yes I am for the seduction yes I am and what happen CH L now slowly will melt and now I going to have 50 g of butter of a

Butter so and what does the butter do here the B will silken it the Marto give us a lovely flavor the vanilla is inside plus the seed inside oh my goodness me it’s done now I remove the vanilla pot just I want to taste it we are the two greedy chefs but

I know who is more greedy than me and it’s ready now it is ready and you want to seduce me with that you waited and you’re Tasty and I’m going to crumble namarti biscuit on top my goodness you’re strong start to work it what did they say he start to work it just try and tell me look at me first so man don’t bu yourself come on tell me the Truth it is a fantastic chocolate I appreciate your intention you remain a good friend but I can’t be seduced by let me seduce you properly now you ready J go introduce somebody else that’s what I can tell Youto oh no the dating Agency that’s funny she comes oh yes are you ready you got everything ready up there nicely shirt you need it not rabbish you wear every day have you s yeah what I could have food forio something has to do with love yeah well we have little anti pasty for start

You don’t eat to too much you know anasty everybody well let’s have something or something yeah but something very specific too should we do yeah that’s that’s good one soft full of love yeah I’m making This 3 hours later I was deeply regreting jeno’s ridiculous idea the silly boy had gone complet complely over the top it was 8:00 the time had come all we knew her name was Erica as she was looking for a serious husband ER I will be there in one second see I

Hello welcome thank you very much for you to come in come inside uh the tower it be fantastic okay for here you right yes okay Antonio yes hello hello my goodness that’s a date nice to meet you hello Antonio your name is Erica ER Jano can

You open it one I wanted to kill jaro the poor girl was out my age I’m sorry actually I can’t marry you I would like to but you’re very young yeah I know so this date is an organization of this gentleman here thank you very much but

Still we could have a lovely evening and I wondered if she could cook do you like a little bit you know the speciality here this is prut I think this I like take take whatever you like this most take a plate myself I like this well I like moreel

Actually typical s of Bologna yes it is she that so beautiful let me just put the sugar inside here put roughly six tablespoons of sugar inside and I will bit him up I put eight eggs inside Y come on come on Gadget come on come on come on they

Waiting ER it’s extremely interesting can you tell me why do you go to the agency because I want to find um a serious man serious a really serious man I mean someone who wants to build a family I like to cook for someone because the cooking for itself is a

Little sad you know that taste to me something very important when you say I like to cook for someone yeah because this is majorly an act of love if you cook for somebody it means that you’re able to love people then I’m going to put some masal

Inside you can actually put some other different alcohol long is a sweet wine mix mix mix all together come on it’s fluffing up come on when I was a child um I use it to cook with my oh that’s interesting mother she has still yes you have to extract from her

Everything because then there come a time where you can’t anymore per you write it down because it’s very very interesting yeah I will I will you gave me a good advice thank you this Tayon is full of love you never know you know after the J sometime a big romance is coming Out so we are in a tower here I if you would have come from there if you come from there I would have saw you had ghost on the tower a nice ghost but you because you are very pretty and I’m very glad to be with you thank you J Jesus I could have find a little plate I’m shaking yes I really wish you all the best thank you really from the heart I am be the man that will get you somehow I drink to this thank You J look at this this fantastic yes wow that’s a fantastic sa J you are fantastic Yes J just go and leave us alone excuse Meina so Antonio tell me what do you think was worth it Erica was very sweet I agree she was very sweet very uh genuine very Frank and I think that she will find a good man and tell you the food was good the food was good the was a bit sort of

Thin but okay what do you mean a bit thin a bit thin what you mean I told you to do it with less liquid and you didn’t it was too liquid but tell me when you say you done good J when you do Perfection then I tell you that you know

What I’m going to bed it’s it’s quite quite time it’s quite time to go because never happy you always complains you know after I’ve done all this for you good good night j i the lovely evening thank you very much oh bless you good night the next day we heard of a new

Development than were looking up apparently cooking schools for foreign tourists were being inundated with Italians we wanted to have a look and even asked Julia the kitchen hating crime reporter to give it a try you’re going to have a lot of friends if you’re able to make the

Tortellini so maybe I I can just have left crime scenes and like more alive people than dead people what was that more like you said more Smiley people imagine you know you can see this lovely man you know you really like to him you don’t know what

You tell yes I’m very sexual I am very very good and you say you know what why don’t you come around my house and I make few torine you tell me which is an Italian man which he will refuse it a plate of a Torell no no one there is no

One no I can guarantee you never learned to make pasta from your mother but my grandma yes a little bit but not so much so you want to do the ravioli and tortellini and all of that yeah because you are really adamant to do it yourself yeah that’s

Fantastic from tal to tortellini to Alexandra the own of the school has found a whole new role in life who doesn’t have a mother that can teach comes here so she’s the mother of everybody two little folds okay with the index better and it’s done wow that’s good look at her

Hallelujah look at this Fant L me today we had learned a lot in Bologna even if today’s masam are not teaching their children young women are still learning to cook not because they expected to cook but because they want to Or the stew of wild B it is one of the most wonderful dishes to share in a family because it’s a very social Affair so you starting cooking scrots and celery would you like to help me course fantastic J it’s a little bit of work but it is fantastic because it gives

Incredible results Jan don’t chop my hands I’m far away from you and naturally when you cook for a big family or big group of people it is very usual that everybody participate don’t start to be the very Chef that does like this I don’t like it slowly I you have to cut

The onions I cut my own way no you don’t you want to show off yeah I want to show off then we also put the oil on me when go on go on go on where I have to go go on one teaspoon of pepper corns and 1 tbspoon of juniper

Beres and I will start to chop the meat we have here rabbit and sausage pork sausage wild B and pork you have about 200 g of meat per person I like this mixture of everything if you had got no wild B you could just use pork and

Chicken and rabbit it’s bit of fat in it will melt right through what a dish shall we start the put them inside yes yes yes that looks fantastic and put some red wine in is let me just get the Lovely color just a little bit of color

Antonio yeah just a little bit yes so 200 mil of red wine will give the lovely lovely flavor we put a little bit of rosemarine a little bit of sage and bay leaves and now it comes the Italian thing which is PPA Pomodoro Tom how much is it this is 1

And2 kilo all together can you stir it please you notice I didn’t put any salt or pepper yes not yet I’m waiting for you it comes later otherwise it makes the meat tough here has the nut make jado you have wonderful fingers don’t grate your finger on how much half quart

Half I love it so now you put the whole 10 of tomato paste because I would like the sauce to be very concentrated of tomato okay let’s turning down shall I cover Now cover it so that means I have to stay about 1 hour and a half but that’s that’s what

What you are trained to be done byebye J look look look at your wonderful chair ah ah J that’s life somebody’s working and somebody’s resting thing jar from time to time can you look at the at the meat Please little baby what is it come on did you was sleepy I the one wonderful snooze J would kind to move please that that is way I like I want to see now the way you make a Penta so Penta we have here 3 lit of water and the penta is the

Flour of maze this is a 5 minute poent the very delicious because it goes perfectly with the stew here now I can already put the butter which are 100 G yeah put them all in there wonderful how much cheese 250 g of that this is

The talo that I use this time it’s a wonderful cheese very creamy could be done with Fontina as well can you grate also about 100 G of Parmesan General yeah Stir It stir it let me just remove all this from here wonderful look at this this is just like a

Cream what you do now you put just in the middle here Anton hurry up you work that way cut a little Channel and the best thing is to share it this is a small version but the version that they are big as a table

With a lots of Penta a lots of Stew just fantastic nice for the lovely big family M he fantastic cheers [Laughter] andon but what if you don’t have a family what if you have fallen out with them or turned your back on them we were off to the countryside near Rini to meet a huge family one which breaks all Traditions but thrives on its passion for food look at the grapes

Hanging off the vine there yeah incredible but Antonio look the complex there it is unbelievable this is a medical center we have here for everybody here free medical care and there’s people suffering from HIV and and they can stay here so you have got everything here yes it’s a little town

People join this family when they stray of course and find theel Ina or a dark place in life this is a refuge for people who have cut those Family Ties everybody needs s patrano is an extraordinary charity which helps people with serious drug problems it’s home for nearly 2,000

Men and women people come here from prison from the streets from the chaos of broken lives they stay at least 4 years and learn to live again and they do it by producing fantastic Italian food which sells around the world the Charming mon lupy showed us how

Everything grown on the 600 acres is used to train recovering addicts The Homegrown meat goes to teach butchers the salamis and the hams are famous in Italy with the grapes they learn to make wonderful awardwinning wines M half a million liters a year this is so much wine and in a family with so many mouss to feed everyone learns to cook Monica

All those people before coming here they didn’t have anything to do with food most of them know I think when you’re in a situation of drug addiction you don’t give importance to the small things in life that are at the end the real pleasures food is one of these so one of

The basics here is appreciating the hard work that goes into it so nothing here is made uh you know the shortcut because with patience and love and passion is the only way that you will reach the final product we were so impressed it’s hard to believe that not long ago clever

Boys like federo were sleepy rough how do you feel to be inside here for about a year now at the beginning it was very strange I was a little disappointed I was not used to to stay together with people without drugs because outside I was using heroin heroin yes heroin now

It’s off now it’s off good and the most important thing that you see that life has another aspect that you can use life for different things every day making cheese you can improve every day uh step by step see your limits and go uh further further one step at a time and

Uh also here in San we always make cheese not by our own but we make it with person we are a big family tell me how many liters of milk inside here 550 L and how much cheese you get out about 100 kilos so 20 kilos

Of 100 100 kilos ofon and 20 25 kilos of R you Heaven mom m Antonio Fantastic Andrea is very proud of all the different cheeses they Produce these are not just the cheeses they are Andrea passion and joy a passion which may have saved his Life That’s very interesting have a look this is to produce the hold so that the sausage can bre so I and then because you always lose away there you go this Antonio carluchi and different style no it’s not this is the easy way to lose weight I lose weight

Without yeah yeah I know it’s 25 years I’m still waiting our dining room my God one important thing is this is always called a dining room it’s not a cafeteria it’s not a messall it’s a dining room because it’s a big version of your home meal times are important here it’s

A room F that everyone eats together just like in a traditional Italian family when somebody arrives here they arrive alone but they always meet right away one person that will be like their big brother around that there’s a group like you see in the cheese shop or in

The butcher shop that becomes like their family cuz most people here they never really felt like they fit somewhere and they were accepted I never uh eat at home with the uh other people only by myself so it’s a new feeling in one year you just start a little to know

Yourself just a little we are eating here homemade talat yep and little pomodorini little tomatoes with a bit of Rola and a little bit of sausage that is delicious and with the pums on on top very light and easy cooked by Chef that they have been instructed here Maria is one of the

Mothers of this family she’s been here since the 70s Maria has taught very many people here how to cook through the years the Italian mothers show their love through food who produces food gives love to the people and if you miss that you don’t have the rest of life we’re always

Running around but to really sit here and enjoy and and taste something and and say to somebody else taste this that’s like a connection that you make with someone I really am flabbergast about what I can see here congratulations don’t have to congratulate me you congratulate look

All those people behind you they are the ones that were always considered hopeless and I want you to welcome you to our family as well that’s fantastic I I feel I feel really proud of it it is marvelous H I don’t know what to say thank you you’re part of our family now

Too anytime you know you can come here the medicine here is love and you cannot buy it it’s free uh is the old story lies two principal functions all you need is food and Love through the Journey I thought that the Italian sense of family is sort of abandoned but all together I must say that it’s a it’s a transformation and I am very sort of pleased to see that in certain form home the family goes on even if the families

They they take another sort of twist so do you agree with me the love and passion of food is still here yes