Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown | Sicily | S02 E05 | All Documentary

Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown Sicily episode: Godfather tourism, a disastrous staged octopus fishing trip near Catania, and Sicilian food, history and culture.

Key Takeaways

Sicily's identity is distinct from mainland Italy, shaped by many conquerors and deeply rooted local culture
Tourism around cultural icons like The Godfather can flatten and commercialize authentic local history
Authentic Sicilian food centers on fresh seafood, simple preparations and traditional rural practices
Organized crime's economic influence and extortion remain a serious issue on the island

What the video covers

Bourdain opens with Savoca-style Godfather tourism and the town's 12th-century roots, criticizing its commercialization
He visits Villa Monaci della Terrena, a certified agriturismo and organic olive oil farm near Catania, meeting proprietor Guido
A planned fishing outing with local chef/fisherman Turi turns farcical as dead octopus, cuttlefish and sea urchins are visibly dropped into the water for filming
Bourdain describes a spiral of hysteria and depression during the shoot, reflecting on the staged fakery as a metaphor
He discusses Sicily's identity: its separateness from mainland Italy and its layered history of Norman, Arab, Spanish, Roman, Turkish and Egyptian influences
A birthday dinner in Taormina ends in heavy drinking, with Bourdain remembering little of the evening
Sicilian dishes featured include raw baby sardines (neonata), spaghetti with cuttlefish, and swordfish with eggplant and tomato
Segments cover the Sicilian Mafia's economic footprint, including extortion and the anti-racket pledges businesses sign
Bourdain visits a traditional pig slaughter and butchery, including blood sausage and cured meats
Local betting and rooster or horse culture are briefly touched on

Chapters

What happens during the fishing trip in this episode?

Bourdain goes fishing with chef Turi, but dead octopus, cuttlefish and sea urchins are visibly dropped into the water for the cameras. Bourdain is deeply disturbed by the fakery and describes it as a nervous breakdown.

Why does Bourdain say Sicily is not quite Italy?

He notes Sicily is part of Italy but not really part of it, with its own language, culture and history shaped by Norman, Arab, Spanish, Roman, Turkish and Egyptian influences.

What Sicilian dishes are featured in the episode?

Dishes include raw baby sardines called neonata with citrus and salt, spaghetti with cuttlefish, swordfish with eggplant and tomato, and blood sausage made from a traditional pig slaughter.

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We go up this beautiful mountain. This incredible town goes back to the 12th century. People trudge up the hill to the beautiful church to take the walk that Michael Corleone took. Now and forevermore, it will be sort of the Godfather theme park, where they're just playing the Godfather theme over and over. I think the most thoughtful presidents are disgusted by this.

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sort of the godfather theme park where they're just playing the godfather theme over and over i think the most thoughtful presidents are disgusted by this [Music] imagine that waking up every day as one bus after another filled with japanese

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Imagine waking up every day as one bus after another filled with Japanese tourists goes up there. "Oh, look, Michael Corleone got married there! Oh, it's so..."

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very much the roots of the town where i live but somehow i've never been able to get it right to tell the story any story of sicily it's the biggest island in the mediterranean two main towns are palermo

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It's one of the most beautiful places in Europe, a place whose roots are very much the roots of the town where I live. But somehow I've never been able to get it right, to tell the story, any story, of Sicily. It's the biggest island in the Mediterranean. Two main towns are Palermo and Catania, on opposite sides. I've done a show in Palermo before. It was an epic goat rodeo, a failure of humiliating scale. This time I was going to get it right.

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evocative deeply felt history that's not quite reality but cool anyway right there's the simple fact of its location tucked away under the boot of italy part of but not really part of that country its own language culture its own history

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There's the Sicily we know from films, an evocative, deeply felt history that's not quite reality, but cool anyway, right? There's the simple fact of its location, tucked away under the boot of Italy, part of but not really part of that country, with its own language, culture, and history of Norman, Arab, Spanish, Roman, Turkish, and Egyptian interlopers, all leaving their mark and their influence. I grew up in New Jersey, which was pretty much Sicily on the Hudson. The Italian Americans next door weren't from Milan, I could tell you that much. I guess what I'm telling you is I figured this would be easy.

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i guess what i'm telling you is i figured this will be easy vila monaci de la terrener a certified agriturismo meaning it's a hotel restaurant and working farm that in this case produces olive oil how many acres of property do

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Villa Monaci, della Terrena, a certified agriturismo, meaning it's a hotel, restaurant, and working farm that, in this case, produces olive oil. "How many acres of property do you have?" "Uh, Tony's about 40 acres. It's one of the oldest organic farms in the mountains." This is Guido, the proprietor. "So that's where potatoes come from?"

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in an idyllic villa in the countryside outside catania how low impact can it get so the plan was we go fishing we get some fresh octopus maybe some cuttlefish explore the bounty of the surrounding waters all while working on our tans with a

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How freaking hard can it be to make an awesome show in Sicily? Eat the nice food, drink the wine, in an idyllic villa in the countryside outside Catania. How low-impact can it get? So the plan was, we go fishing. We get some fresh octopus, maybe some cuttlefish, explore the bounty of the surrounding waters, all while working on our tans with a local chef, fisherman, man of the sea. He's experienced. He knows where to get it good. "Do you like sea urchin?" "Oh, you love it! How do you say in Italian?" "One of my favorite things to eat." "This is Turi, my host." "What else is that?" "The octopus." "Octopus, now it's also cuttlefish." "Oh, yeah, and I want to try to find some small abalone. We call it..." "Okay, nice. And also, we have clams here." "The water is still cold. I think they will be really full."

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touring my host what else is that the octopus octopus now it's also cuttlefish oh yeah and i i want to try to find some small apalone we call it okay nice and also as a clams here the water is still

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I'm thinking, really? Are these prime fishing waters? I don't know about this, with all this boat traffic and all these people, and so close to the action. I can't see much of anything living down there.

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much of anything living down there okay we anchor here but i am famous for my optimism so i dutifully suited up for what was advertised as a three-hour cruise so i get in the water and i'm paddling around and splash

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Okay, we anchor here. But I am famous for my optimism, so I dutifully suited up for what was advertised as a three-hour cruise. So I get in the water and I'm paddling around, and splash, suddenly there's a dead sea creature sinking slowly to the seabed in front of me. Are they kidding me? I'm thinking, can this be happening? Splash, there's another one. Another rigor mortis, half-frozen, freaking octopus. But it goes on. One dead cuttlefish, deceased octopus, frozen sea urchin, after another. Splash, splash, splash. Each specimen drops among the rocks or along the seafloor, to be heroically discovered by Turi moments later and proudly shown off to camera, like I'm not actually watching his confederate in the next boat over hurl them into the water one after another.

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deceased octopus frozen sea urchin after another splash splash splash each specimen drops among the rocks or along the sea floor to be heroically discovered by turi moments later and proudly shown off to camera like i'm not actually watching

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I'm no marine biologist, but I know dead octopus when I see one. I'm pretty sure they don't drop from the sky and then sink straight to the bottom. "How many do we have?" "Three, yeah, okay." I try to get some patella now, and also... okay.

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straight to the bottom how many we have three yeah okay i try to get some patella now and also some okay strangely everyone else pretends to believe the hideous sham unfolding before our eyes doing their best to ignore the

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Strangely, everyone else pretends to believe the hideous sham unfolding before our eyes, doing their best to ignore the blindingly obvious. Then they gave up and just dumped a whole bag of dead fish into the sea.

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i'm frantically swimming around the bottom littered with dead things looking for one that's still twitching so i can hold it up to the camera and end this misery but no my shame will be absolute for some reason i feel something snap

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At this point I begin desperately looking for signs of life, hoping that one of them would start becoming revived. I'm frantically swimming around the bottom, littered with dead things, looking for one that's still twitching so I can hold it up to the camera and end this misery. But no, my shame will be absolute. For some reason I feel something snap, and I slide quickly into a spiral of near-hysterical depression. Is this what it's come to? I'm thinking, as another dead squid narrowly misses my head. Almost a decade later, back in the same country, and I'm still desperately staging fishing scenes, seeding the oceans with supermarket seafood, complicit in a shameful incident of fakery. But there I was, bobbing listlessly in the water, dead sea life sinking to the bottom all around me. You've got to be pretty immune to the world not to see some kind of obvious metaphor.

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fishing scenes seeding the oceans with supermarket seafood complicit in a shameful shameful incident of fakery but there i was bobbing listlessly in the water dead sea life sinking to the bottom all around me you gotta be pretty immune

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I've never had a nervous breakdown before, but I tell you from the bottom of my heart, something fell apart down there, and it took a long, long time after the end of this damn episode to recover.

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this damn episode to recover [Music] a little longer we don't need to boil we'll be ready without it number five raw clams abalone and a heartwarming beach scene surrounded by a gaggle of curious and hungry kids it was at this point about the only

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A little longer. We don't need to boil. We'll be ready without it. Number five: raw clams, abalone, and a heartwarming beach scene surrounded by a gaggle of curious and hungry kids. It was at this point about the only possible way for Turi to redeem himself. You'll notice I'm not there. I'm sitting in a nearby cafe, pounding one negroni after another in a smoldering, miserable rage. Our evening meal will be at a tourist-trap osteria, Nero d'Avola, which is just up the hill in Taormina. But by the time dinner rolls around, I'm ripped. Did I mention it's my birthday? I've had three hours of bobbing around on a pitching boat, a couple more hours getting looped, and two more hours lying on a sidewalk outside the restaurant while the crew hangs lights. So I'm gone, baby, gone. I don't remember any of this, any of it.

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by the time dinner rolls around i'm ripped to the did i mention it's my birthday i've had three hours of bobbing around on a pitching boat couple more hours getting looped two more hours lying on a sidewalk outside the restaurant while

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"So how's your day today?" "It's good, everybody. A nice boat trip, a little swim."

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tommaso had joined me for dinner also someone on the crew mentioned that his wife was present and that she didn't say much presumably because this was not her preferred way to spend her birthday [Music] hi tony this is my passion

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I would be told later that a gentleman named Tommaso had joined me for dinner. Also, someone on the crew mentioned that his wife was present, and that she didn't say much, presumably because this was not her preferred way to spend her birthday.

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only tori knows about baby it's next to his secret fishing hole there was great sicilian wine apparently and apparently i drank quite a lot of it there was bread and olive oil abalone served raw in the shell baby sardine called neonata also served

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"Hi, Tony. This is my passion. I like to find an old variety of olive, and one of these is white." "So that's the original?" "Yes, original. If I do not find it anywhere else..." Apparently there were these white olives harvested from some secret tree only Turi knows about. Baby, it's next to his secret fishing hole.

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the correct answer should be i'm italian what no we say i'm sicilian wow is sicily italy yes should it be i don't know but uh we used to have influence from britain's normans arab and spanish so basically we are a mexican we have

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There was great Sicilian wine, apparently, and apparently I drank quite a lot of it. There was bread and olive oil, abalone served raw in the shell, baby sardine called neonata, also served raw with a splash of citrus and salt. "And this is the baby sardine, totally raw, without much of anything. Today's better. The fish salute." "Thank you." "If you ask a Sicilian, where do you come from? The correct answer should be, 'I'm Italian.'" "What? No, we say, 'I'm Sicilian.'" "Wow, is Sicily Italy?" "Yes." "Should it be? I don't know, but we used to have influence from Britain, the Normans, Arab, and Spanish. So basically we are a Mexican. We have blender..."

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and cuttlefish i recognize you my friend now crudo like this how traditional is this to sicily i think from the part of the sea they almost eat a role always yes but um fishermen only fishing communities only or in restaurants

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"Oh, look, my octopus. I remember personally catching that one. It was a mighty struggle too." "No, actually, I don't. Yeah, the octopus. Oh, beautiful little shrimp, very tender. The octopus, very nice." Another traditional specialty, I am told. They call this tuna tartare and cuttlefish. "I recognize you, my friend." "Now, crudo like this, how traditional is this to Sicily?" "I think from the part of the sea, they almost eat a role always." "Yes, but um, fishermen, only fishing communities, or in restaurants always?" "As long as you've been alive, you go to a restaurant, you see brutal like this?" "No, I see crudo in a poor family. So it's not like there's Japanese influence, but the Japanese sort of gave everybody permission to eat traditional foods, their own tr

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traditional foods their own traditional food what are the great mother sicilian classic dishes the anchovies bon jovi and parmigiana pasta okay that's it i think this is for me with the sardine yeah but it's an explosion of a

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flower because of this plate that it's arab born in a period when sicily was very poor this i like i even remember it [Music] pasta alfino actually a true sicilian classic made with fennel pine nuts saffron and anchovy

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served alongside some sardines that have been curing in chestnuts and salt for days then lightly fried in oil we have to use our hand we have to use a hand to eat the fish no problem i must have slunk back to bed somehow

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collapsed into a sodden drunken heap of self-loathing i would ordinarily have turned on the porn channel and maybe loaded up on prescription meds but there's no tv at the agra turismo i love the films godfather one and godfather two but they had nothing to do

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with any organized crime from reality their opera magnificent opera but basically a morality tale about loyalty and destroying the things you claim to love and want to protect actual organized crime members generally speaking a bunch of spectacularly uneducated lazy ass sociopaths

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who have no problem stealing from their own harder working neighbors here in sicily their interests are less glamorous than gambling and prostitution they are and have traditionally been a gigantic parasitical organism one that has now grown to be

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of near equal size as its host mary taylor cemetery is originally from new york but she's been living here in palermo for half a century now she's a food writer and at one time a reformer for social justice which is a

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dicey thing to be here you've been here all this time why well i came for a year it was going to be a year between college and graduate school i just finished the college i met a man and they're there in

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leicester hill i married a sicilian and i've lived here ever since piccolo napoli it's a restaurant like a lot of others around here except for the quality of its food tell me about where are we first of all

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the father and mother of the present owner opened this in 1951 and there's a wonderful photograph there on the wall of the opening day with it started it's really a tavern and has become a well-known and much appreciated restaurant now it's

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very straightforward sicilian cooking at its best we start with some typical things the kind of things i deeply love the kind of simple good things that make me happy pinelli which is a fritter made from chickpeas some caponata

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a sweet and sour eggplant dish kind of like ratatouille but more arab in influence a plate of olives and some white wine produced from a small batch vineyard run by mary and her husband chickpea flour probably come in with the

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arabs maybe even earlier because chickpeas have been around for a long time this is the famous caponata without a sicilian as it gets yes and cannoli are the two internationally known sicilian dishes this is what i've been waiting for this

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is what i wanted sicily to be something to soothe my shattered soul it doesn't take much a bowl of good pasta in this case the famous spaghetti alnaro di sepia spaghetti and cuttlefishing pasta with swordfish eggplant and tomatoes

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okay ah beautiful perfect perfect pasta very happy with that good i know you've been looking forward to it i'm glad you're i'm glad it's good palm is an expensive city for some things because the consumer is paying more more so that the store can afford

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to pay its extortion money the big change that has happened is that up until the mid-80s the late 80s there were a great many sicilians who thought if they were honest and didn't have anything to do with the

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mafia they could live without being affected by the mafia apparently 80 of the businesses in palermo and and 70 in the rest of italy that pay extortion that's a lot that's a lot but not everybody pays the bite

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a small but growing coalition of businesses have joined a group called adio pizza a grassroots organization taking a stand against the mafia's traditional near total control over the food chain from farm to table i come out of the restaurant

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business in new york you got taxed with every laundry order every time they took your trash away it was built in to all your basic services here it's much more the the going around christmas and easter guy comes by

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the guy comes by i mean it's it's playing in simple extortion given that that's a pretty straightforward situation some of these guys who banded together for adio pizza i mean what happens the guy shows up and says i'm not paying you what happens next

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well apparently now the mafia has decided that it isn't worthwhile bothering with the people who belong to adio pizza there's so many others out there and why look for trouble how true it is i don't know right to belong to a deal pizza you have to

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sign a pledge that you will not pay and that if you are approached you will go to the police they send you to lawyers and to another organization which deals with the people who are actually having trouble it's incredibly complicated i mean there

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are no easy answers right i mean what about big farm what about some some of the things that are that are happening on on a much more legitimate level i mean who's more destructive worldwide i mean yes you you can make a very good

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argument i'm upset because i'm sounding as if i'm making apologies for the mafia it's just i think what has happened but having lived 50 years in sicily i'm much more skeptical than most americans right i don't know that i know what you're

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saying you're saying you're not so sure that a mafia free italy would they be that much more functional no absolutely i'm not so sure i'm not sure at all i am constantly amused by the fact that 45 years ago

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if i said to america the first time i live in sicily how did a nice girl like you end up in a place like that really now it's on a farm it's just how romantic oh i [Music] in 2007 there were only 160 adio pizzo

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members now over 800. pretty cool considering we're talking about a group who have demonstrated no regret or hesitation in killing judges politicians police prosecutors back to catania and when you're talking to late night dining options you're talking one thing the enticing

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smell of smoke wafting through the streets a smell that's enticingly equine i smell rainbow dash anthony and marco a couple of sicilians and aficionados of masalaria aquinas this is viable and san cristoforo it's one of the older side

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famous you know uh pro families of mafia you know that grows in crime organization here already yeah yeah yeah nowadays seems to be like uh a bit more quiet because they are all getting arrested so they prefer to sell meat against

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drugs so right over there you have the you can bet on a horse you can beat horses yes people like to beat ross and they hear you eat the one that's loose the loser goes on the fire it's not a nice thing but i mean

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sometimes happens for real huh cycle of life all right so why horse where does this tradition come from maybe also the egyptians then we have greeks 750 years before christ then we have romans because we have to say that sicilian are

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big bastards yeah of course because we have been conquered by everybody also our dialect there are many words that are understood by other people if i say a sicilian dialect word maybe an arab can understand me an italian no because italian language

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comes from latin something different we are sicilians before to beat aliens right remember this hold on i'll never [Laughter] [Music] forget look this is the bottled side of the meat it's yellow it's not white when it's yellow means that these

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horse has been breeded eating fresh grass you like the taste it's good it's a bit sweet huh simple huh you don't need nothing horse meat basically it's loved by every quite everybody here you know meatballs anthony we can also host

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meatballs as you wish man whatever whatever i'll try it it's a mix of different things you know scrambled bread parmesan cheese pecorino right parsley eggs and of course of course that was very tasty let's put it this way when my daughter asked me for a pony

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i'm bringing her here pointing at that grill and saying here's you pony parco de a nebrari is a national park and within that is this free-range pig farm they breed these special heritage pigs there the black boar of nabrodi

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combination of wild sicilian bore and domesticated swine thought to have been brought here from spain long ago this breed of pig is raising the profile of the pig here smell of [ __ ] everywhere huh look look they hear now the noise of the

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car they will arrive fantastic like any good tasting high quality pig the secret is largely what were they fed how did they live were they happy i'm a hunter i've never seen so many in once it's like i feel

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uh you should be shooting something a poorly fed pig who lived his life in squalor stress and fear makes for bad pork this is why we should treat animals well not just because that's the nice thing to do but because it makes them provably

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more delicious chestnuts acorns roots and stuff foraged from the hills supplemented by some nice fattening grain during the winter months when wild food is less easy and less plentiful they catch here at the animal only with the traps right

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it's a shame that they don't let you shoot them i like pigs not to hang out with to eat i don't have a tattoo of a pig or anything but i like them fine and when given the opportunity to shoot

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one in the brain or see one shot in the brain so that i may sup on its entrails at other parts i'm down that's what's called cheering me up from some manic depression bang and this pig is like paulie you

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won't see him no more [Music] even with the brain dead the heart still goes on beating sort of like pick a kardashian in this case however those last few beats of the heart are absolutely necessary to pump all

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that red red kravi into a bucket for sanguinacho the salt helps keep it from coagulating prematurely [Music] and so fast incredible a kardashian joke there somewhere kim gets ready for the big day it's date night at chloe's house

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real housewife gets ready for summer grooming tips from teresa i got a million of them let's hope kanye never has to see this oh we hang now oh like very fast man all those good bits the lungs kidneys

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they get cooked slowly in fat with garlic chili pepper little wine is the meat also what the the liver water [Music] meanwhile the intestinal casings get filled with blood and gently poached until creamy bloody delicious and a nice spread of homemade cured

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meats local cheese and homemade wine let the party begin so what do we have here let's identify these products uh capicola capocollo uh that's the slice [Music] this is the ricotta and it's just cooked in the oven the bread the bread is from the uncle

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and they have also salami and they have sausages and what [Music] that's good oh and the best moment of the day indeed oh yeah what do you think about the shoes yeah but you know for me the ricotta

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really good i think it's a complete country this place you discover sicily in an aspect today i think that very few people know this is incredible even the bread is the old lady that she made you think of sicily you think of family

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you think of food this is more like [Music] we'll stop here for the train [Music] katana the early morning market it's been going on for longer than america's had a country it's old old i tells you they know you here or you shop here

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often yeah this is not tommaso's first trip to the market by a long shot his mom is a regular she comes here almost every day the eggs and you see this is a mix up you can find here everything

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each butcher more likely they have their own specialty fresh ingredients in order to come baby lamb yeah baby lamb the sausage the hamburger the pulpit this is the pecorino normal at least it's about six months old at least

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oh over here this is the place where she buy the spices for her home and the veggies this is what the market is best known for seafood this one is one of the biggest resellers that we have in the fish market

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you can see also the variety [Music] we consider the tuna like a pig we don't throw away anything see this is a typical you can find only here oh those are the tiny tiny little clouds yes there's another things assume in

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sicilian they call bukuni you can see the shrimp normally still alive so i see sepia baby yeah swordfish [Applause] i'm joining tommaso for lunch today mom's cooking so we got to do some shopping they look beautiful yeah the color is

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beautiful so we'll go have a little crudo today so the shrimp and the baby started after you what do you want to try sausage [Music] you squeeze it no no no no oh ah that's good usually i don't like try

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plain i like it in a sauce or spicy that's very tasty looks like hell tastes like heaven yeah if you like this you're sicilian [Music] i don't have any grandparents my mom i guess she cooks but the last time she

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ever invited me for dinner was like 1972. so given that tragic dysfunctional too much information kind of history is it any mystery why i'm always on the lookout for grandma anybody's grandma will do hell i've been known to cruise rural state highways

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looking for hitchhiking grannies to abduct so they'll cook for me and given my fragile emotional state it makes perfect sense that i've dragooned tommaso's mom into making me an iced lunch is that heartwarming or like creepy and sad hey it smells good in here

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let's go open wine in the meantime all right no juice you need any help chopping parsley's ah perfect for lunch we got the shrimp and sardines from earlier at the market but first this let's grab one it's like

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arancini but with a hollowed out potato filled with cheese breaded and fried delicious basically when you finish the the potatoes ready and the filled with all the cheese yes the dip in the eggs you need to seal the

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potatoes right and then the crumb bread and fried my mother used to cook for everybody even if it was midnight my parents was the focus of a friend over my friends right so we have to do something where

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you want to share some time all together and they have dinner my mother's cooking for everybody because the problem here is that when she cooked even if she know that's only for five people she cooking for 10. just in case

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[Applause] for caponata this is sicily after all and this is the classic starter also a bread and tomato salad would you like to try something that's old school with us we toss the bread make a little bit harder

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and normally we do with the bread at least two days you're two two days old right it's really good really really good that's sicily right there right yes fresh shrimp sauteed and garlic butter and herbs i've noticed over time as they travel

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around the world that every great and enlightened culture when they're confronted with a shrimp or a prawn right away that is the way you see if it's fresh or not yeah [Music] so typical day when you were 15 years

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old what did you eat for lunch well never missing pasta for lunch pasta and meat or pasta and fish fish of course something locally basically you got to go right behind the corner to find your products so wherever you in

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you can then we can produce things easily that's your shoes buy watch this you're gonna zip the bone right out out comes all about who needs a knife sardines filleted neatly sauteed in garlic and oil a little red

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pepper it's a beautiful thing right there well i'll tell you another two hours here also i'll be speaking of diet well we speak sicilian this is very nice yeah really if you don't like this there's really no hope

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for you there's something that you don't like it everything is tell her tell her because i'm so happy this was a delicious meal to eat in this uh this beautiful home with some some really good home-cooked food my last night in sicily and after this

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i'm going back to new york crawling under my bed and adopting the fetal position for like six weeks could i cut some vegetables no well i may look normal okay i don't exactly but i'm not barking uncontrollably or

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running around shrieking with my pants wrapped around my head which is what my instincts are telling me i should be doing [Music] to me one of life's great joys is cheese no i'm eating cheese which makes me happy

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always and drinking wine good wine and a hell of a lot of it and i'll just make it over the hump with any luck at all so we have a mozzarella here a pepperoncino tori joins me for a final meal along

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with antonio guido and guido's girlfriend ara this is an agriturismo this is not a concept that exists in america but it is a concept that should exist okay now please explain what it is agriturismo is a hotel linked to the territory you have to use

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local product local recipe [Music] penne with sun-dried tomatoes zucchini all from the farm oh man that looks good [Music] some nice rabbit olive oil also from the farm more wine i might just make it what now this is called

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bitter if you talk about italy as a whole it is the most interesting aspect of italian cuisine not just gastronomically but philosophically because it is a philosophical thing life is too good i need a little bitterness to remind

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myself of the eternal tragedy of our existence you are right the parts are sweeter and sour of the life one final attempt before i go to extract something meaningful on what it means to be sicilian what's wrong with these people in the north

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people from the south are coming from this uh greek stream culture where the philosopher while in the north the austrian came through and also very all right that's the harshest meanest very practical people and figured out that the last century

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the three best writers in italy are from sicily because they consider us just like a weight when there are problems right but finally on summer they all come here to make magazines [Music] it's a good thing for us you know

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[Music] in the end it all comes back to the godfather we go up this beautiful mountain it's this incredible town it goes back to the 12th century there are few places on earth more beautiful but here we are sitting and what

Speaker A

it was like a godfather theme park oh look michael corleone got married oh it's so fantastic you know i just looked these people you know with the godfather t-shirt oh my god why people get stuck on this i love god the godfather movie because

Speaker A

there is this big sense of faith michael had many options he destroyed his family and everybody everything he touched in a way is fair so it's fair i did a good movie for sure coppola he didn't pick it up no no no

Speaker A

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