The program shot between the Spanish districts, Scampia and Vesuvius is broadcast on CNN
twelve o’clock, September 15, 2021 – 10:27 pm
Stanley Tucci in the running for the prize on September 19th with a docufilm on Naples and the Amalfi Coast
from Anna Paola Merone
“San Gennaro put your hand on it.” Stanley Tucci entrusts himself to the Patron of Naples. On September 19, the feast of the Saint, the Emmy Awards will be awarded in Los Angeles and its program broadcast on CNN,Searching for Italy, has two nomination. One of which for the episode on “Naples and the Amalfi Coast”, which is the starting point for the program that goes to the discovery of Italy and its flavors through six regions. “Campania and Naples have been so impressive that Tucci and the producers have chosen to change the layout of the program that starts right here, with him and me back to the light as we walk along an alley of lava stone that sparkles with the rays Of sun. We were shooting exactly one year ago »recalls Elisabetta Moro, professor of Cultural Anthropology at Suor Orsola, specialized in« Food studies »and author of books on the Mediterranean Diet. «I was contacted by the production and at the beginning mine was supposed to be just a consultancy, but then it gradually transformed – she says -. Stanley and I found ourselves eating fried pizza together, we stopped in front of a votive shrine to talk about the city’s relationship with death, precariousness and the afterlife. Then stop by Brandi to tell and taste the Margherita. Finally he reached Enzo Coccia to learn “The art of Neapolitan pizza makers”, the most pop Unesco heritage in the world. At this point we really hope that San Gennaro will do the miracle for us ».
Cinema and cuisine
In short, even the anthropologist relies on the Saint for the consecration of a program that is a tailor-made suit for Tucci – husband of Julia Child in Julie Julia, author with his wife Felicity of cookery books, singer of Italian cuisine inThe Big Night – who has no hesitation in admitting that, after cinema, cooking is his great passion. He was in town nearly three weeks for filming. Mask on hand – as Elisabetta Moro reveals – has resisted the temptation to let itself be squeezed by the warmth of the inhabitants of the neighborhoods, but has let itself be involved in the scents, flavors and Neapolitan atmospheres. With Enzo Coccia he went to the discovery of the cherry tomatoes piennolo, climbing on the slopes of Vesuvius, San Marzano, buffalo mozzarella and the mysteries of mother yeast and was involved in a practical lesson to make pizza on the terraces of D’Angelo Santa Caterina, overlooking the Gulf. Then stop in Scampia to talk about Chikù, where Neapolitan women and Roma women work side by side in the kitchen: a real social enterprise that reveals another face of the 167. The troupe has also arrived in Ischia, to discover the sulphurous flavors of green island and the secret recipe of the Ischia-style rabbit, and on the Amalfi Coast for a gastronomic episode between Nerano and Massa Lubrense. A must stop at Lo Scoglio – a restaurant loved by Americans passing through the area – where Stanley Tucci learned how to prepare spaghetti alla Nerano which he often replicates in his home kitchen together with his wife, sharing the experience on his social channels. Finally the sweetness of Sal De Riso. But the tastiest end of the meal is now tied to the hope of an Emmy, or even two.
15 September 2021 | 22:27
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