Chef and restaurateur Cesare Casella breaks down Italian cuisine scenes from movies and TV based on realism.
Casella discusses the accuracy of the meatballs from “The Godfather,” pasta sauce and thin garlic in “Goodfellas,” and capicola in “The Sopranos.” He also analyzes a dish from “Lady and the Tramp” (1955), timpano from “Big Night,” the tiramisu in “Superbad,” and carbonara from “Master of None.” He breaks down the pasta twirling technique from “Brooklyn,” cannoli from “The Bear,” and calzone from “Parks and Rec.” Casella reviews proper pizza throwing technique from “Seinfeld,” pizza-eating form in “Eat Pray Love,” lasagna-making in “Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties,” mozzarella sandwiches from “Bicycle Thieves,” take-out salads from “Family Guy,” Italian kitchen-table dining in “Amarcord,” and trenette al pesto from “Luca.”
Casella has been cooking for more than 50 years and served as the head chef at the Michelin-starred restaurant Vipore in Italy. He then moved to the United States and worked at several fine-dining Italian restaurants in New York City such as Beppe and Salumeria Rosi. Today, Casella is head of the Department of Nourishment Arts at the Center for Discovery, a residential facility in upstate New York for the medically fragile. He oversees a team of chefs, nutritionists, therapists, farmers, and educators.
You can follow Cesare on Instagram here:
https://www.instagram.com/chefcasella/
00:00 – Intro
00:28 – Master of None
02:32 – Seinfeld
04:02 – The Sopranos
09:22 – Luca
11:37 – Goodfellas
14:02 – Big Night
17:23 – The Bear
19:23 – Parks and Recreation
20:47 – The Godfather
22:21 – Brooklyn
24:39 – Superbad
26:40 – Amarcord
29:17 – Family Guy
30:24 – Bicycle Thieves
31:55 – Garfield
34:31 – Master of None (Season 2)
36:58 – Lady and the Tramp
38:17 – Favorite films
39:19 – Credits
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This is the most Italian Italian that’s ever Italian’d. I love this guy!
bro is speaking english with the exact same cadence as italian xD
If you didn’t get a 10/10 from this man then you weren’t even close to authentic.
Thanks for adding the carrot to your sauce instead of sugar chef. It works.
they should have used the language the chef is most comfortable with instead of forcing English onto him.
I think this guy's italian. Not sure tho. Maybe.
I'm here for the gabagool.
What’s up with the glasses? Weird. Can’t concentrate on what he’s saying.
Kudos for the work you do upstate chef. Teaching those with special needs is a blessing you can be proud of.
Just his accent alone guarantees the quality of the food.
1:40 that doesn’t look at all like guanciale, that looks like thick cut bacon. The cheeks of a pig aren’t long like that, and the fat isn’t that consistently layered like bacon/pork belly
On the wine, I cannot agree more. Only cook with the wine you are willing to drink.
I eat a lot of long pastas with a spoon because I like a lot (too much) of sauce
This man was a delight to listen to. 10/10.
This guy just had lost of fun
You know, Quasimodo predicted this video.
Favorite part is him openly admitting "I do not make tortellini myself, it's too hard" XD
As an Italian, I suffered a lot in every scene. At the same time, Cesare said one of the most Italian things possible about cooking in Italy: there's no single recipe for a dish; everyone has their own version and is extremely jealous of it.
10/10
I haven't seen that many tens since summer camp.
I tried Clemenza's recipe from The Godfather. And now I can't make spaghetti any other way now.
Gabagool 👹 made me think of Merv the cat 😭
Thank you for the thorough closed captions!
This is a great chef to be judging cooking. Cooking is easy, its whats your preference instead of whats traditional and i love that he acknowledges it.
What a lovely person. He utterly shatters all the stereotypes about Italians, and his happiness is infectious!
I'm surprised he didn't mention this about the Goodfellas scene, garlic will not melt or dissolve in the pan, no matter how thin you slice it. I cringe every time I see that scene
Also read "This easy 20-minute pasta from Carbone's chef is the perfect quick dinner": https://bit.ly/4scWQJL
Should ask what he thinks about americans calling lasagna "noodles"
Hank Azaria could play Cesare in the movie of his life.
I love how Business Insider used a picture of cured pork belly to show guanciale (or pork jowl)
Not really realistic, just how much the italian man likes how italian the italian thing is
Italy
22:00 My grandmother always put sugar in her sauce. The carrot idea is interesting, though.
🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼
"must be the fart…" Got it!
I am absolutely enchanted that pizza alla Kramer / alla Seinfeld got 10/10… amazing.
you…do…not…eatit…withit…spoon…<cocks gun>
I need those eyeglasses.
love him. seems like a great guy, but u guys needed subtitles cuz his accent is pretty thick
litterally the strongest italian accent they could ever find… even i have issues following – love the spirit too, mostly 10s out of passion for food
I hope they do the macaroni and gravy from the Sopranos.
I love that they got an Italian chef who isn't an utter snob about Italian food. Sure, he sometimes goes "eh, if you're not using the right ingredient it's hard to call it X" but I really appreciate how he looks at the things in their context and rates based on things like "yeah, for a home cook."
6:10 it’s kind of “Italian American” because the butter isn’t French in influence but moreso that they’re from Jersey so butter is probably even more common than olive oil, sinful as that is. Especially for a dirty pig like ralphy
Did Insider just said find me an Italian chef that fits all the stereotypes of an Italian chef?
I was today years old when I realised "gabagool" is, in fact, not gibberish at all.
We need jojo
probably one of the best of these videos, he wasn't super anal about the points to the point where arbitrary/subjective things would dock points