Two Greedy Italians (2011) s02e04 Episode Script
Lazio and Machismo
Take it! Take it! 'I am Antonio Carluccio.
' Mm, they're wonderful.
'Food is my life.
' Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is almost a religious act.
Hallelujah! What I'm cooking, so good.
'And I am Gennaro Contaldo.
' I just can't believe it! 'I, too, am devoted to food.
'For years, I was Antonio's assistant.
' Just a minute.
Do you want to cook it? No, no, no, but it's holding the lump there.
'Now, he's my best friend.
' Italia! 'It has been nearly 50 years since we lived in Italy.
' Beautiful! 'And we have come back to see 'if we still have a taste for the old country.
' Wonderful.
The freshest butter ever.
Come on, boy! Come on! Yeah! Come on! 'We are on our way to Rome' '.
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Where Italian boys go to become a man.
' - When they grow up, the best car - Would be a Ferrari.
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Would be a Ferrari.
'So, what is life for Italian men these days?' Gennaro, you lose there.
Buon appetito! 'And do they enjoy the same simple pleasures we did 'when we were young?' He has five wives.
With this.
And it makes everyone happy.
There! There is one.
- Where? - There, go there.
'We are on a voyage of discovery.
' 'But with Gennaro on board, the whole thing could be a disaster.
' Don't look at me.
'But don't worry' 'It will be fantastic, just as long as there is plenty to eat.
' Lovely! We are travelling through the region called Lazio, on our way to the capital, Roma.
We are on a journey to find out what it means to be Italian men today.
Very nice, huh? I like it.
Lazio is fertile and rugged, and living here is tough.
In the old days, men liked fast cars and fancy women.
But they kept their wives under lock and key.
Is it still the same today? Do you think there will be much action here in the winter time? I don't know, but I believe, - because this is a very small village - Yeah? .
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Here, the woman is still woman Yeah? .
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And the man has to be the man, because otherwise how can you do it? So you mean a man has to be a man? Yeah.
Like me? What do you mean?! It's just fantastic.
Wonderful scenery.
Look at the view! This is Vallinfreda, home of the Scanziani family.
They have been farming sheep in these parts for over 100 years.
Buongiorno.
Mama is in the kitchen.
And Alessandro, the eldest son, is out in the valley, tending the family herds.
I wanted to know if Alessandro was like the tough farmers I remember from when I was young.
I like to have him as bodyguard.
Would be fantastic.
I remember men in my family who were "Uomini duri" - hard men like Alessandro.
When they come home they were "Servito e riverito" - served and revered.
Every morning at five o'clock, she gets up because Alessandro goes very early to work, at five o'clock, to make him the coffee.
That's unbelievable.
He comes in and if she would like to sleep a little bit longer, says, "My goodness, you are still in bed.
Where's my coffee?" That's quite something.
Alessandro expects lunch, a large lunch, to be on the table at one, without fail.
To be sure this happens, the women must work together.
His sister, Marcia, his wife, Sonia, and, of course, Mama.
And no-one can eat until Alessandro gives the signal.
Buon appetito! It's a fortifying lunch for a hardworking man.
Cured meats, home-produced Pecorino Romano cheese .
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And Mama's homemade fettuccine.
Incidentally, I just heard that the mother never comes to the table.
Only for the dessert, because she has to serve in the kitchen, she has to prepare.
How is it? The pasta? 'May I say, it almost feels like the good old days, 'when everyone knew where they stood.
' Salute, Alessandro.
'A man could be a man and a woman could be a woman.
' In Lazio, they have a saying, "Uomo di pancia, uomo di sostanza.
" "The man with a belly is a man of substance.
" Bloody hell! My God, look at the size of that men! Here, in Vallinfreda, is the super-size models that pull the crowds.
Yeah, but did you see the other one? He has the biggest stomach, I think.
Every year, Alessandro and his friends host a competition to see which of them can gain the most weight in an hour.
It's a badge of honour, and it's time to get weighed.
Ah, mamma mia! - Whoa! 170 kilos! - 170 kilo! 'Alessandro is the heavyweight champion, 'but last year's victory cost him a trip to the hospital - '.
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With chronic stomach pains.
' - wow! Look! - Oh! Oh, my god! - My goodness.
- Cominciare! - Buon appetito! So, this is only the antipasto, so to say.
Another one.
I never thought that a man can eat so much.
I find it disgusting.
Just like feeding animals! Alfredo wants to beat Alessandro, because last year he was first, and this year, he will be first.
The feeling is to be strong, and it's not just that the sense of being greedy and No, he is being strong.
The women are very busy making the next load of pasta.
Seeing man eating makes them very excited.
The cheese - to make you feel strong, also very virile.
Strong man! We all need a strong man, this is what it's all about.
Hey! Marta! 'Now the action is really hotting up.
' This times it's cacio e pepe - pasta with salty pecorino cheese and fiery pepper.
Pecorino e pepe! Look at that! Next, the food of emperors, entrails.
This is the entrail of a young lamb that hasn't eaten the grass yet, so the entrail is full of milk, and they braise it.
'A feast fit for Caesar.
' One hour and five courses later, the food has all gone.
Antonio first.
'It's time to weigh the hefty giants of Vellinfreda.
' Oh, Gennaro, go away from me.
I know you.
Now you put always your foot on my thing.
I don't! 'At the weigh-in, Emilio registered 165 kilos.
' Emilio, 170 kilos! Five kilos more.
'Next up, Alfredo, Alessandro's biggest rival.
'Will he take his crown?' - How many kilo? - 133.
'That is one stone of food.
' Tell me, how do you feel? Ah bene, bene! It's good, good! 'All eyes are on last year's champion, Alessandro.
' Only two kilos.
That's four kilos less than Alfredo.
The man mountain has been toppled.
The winner is Alfredo! Alfredo, come in, Alfredo.
Hey! Viva, Alfredo! Bravo, Alfredo! Bravo, Alfredo! - Uh, the ladies, they like it.
- They do love it, yes.
- They love it! - Did you see the eyes? - Yes.
- The wife, girls, they looked They're really very proud.
Lovely village.
- That's good.
No, I really enjoyed - Good, good memory.
- Good people, a good memory, good food.
- Yeah.
The kind of pasta the big men were eating is the kind that made italian cooking famous, real food for your man.
What are you making, Antonio? I want to show you how to make the Bucatini all'amatriciana.
Amatrice is a little town near Rome and from there comes this very simple, but wonderful recipe.
Locals will use guanciale, or pig's cheek, for this delicious pasta sauce.
But a nice pancetta or lean bacon will do just as well.
I fry my pancetta with the onion, and then put a little bit of wine.
We can put a little bit of wine to stop and you loosen up, a little bit, the sticky stuff that is on the bottom, which is very good for the taste.
- It's called de-glazing.
- Oh, really? Yeah.
Add a little pinch of salt and let it simmer.
Can I give you a little hand? Can I help you? - Yeah, you give me only a little hand.
- OK.
Not a big one.
'Next, you chop four fresh tomatoes.
' So, more busy than this sauce here could be, yes? It's fantastic.
You prepare the sauce in advance, then you cook the pasta and you put the pasta with the sauce, and Bob me uncle.
- What? - Bob me uncle.
- What? - Bob me uncle! Usually, you say Bob your uncle, I say Bob me uncle, OK? Yeah, all right.
Mm.
The smell, it's quite wonderful, yes.
Now I need a little bit of chilli for, uh, our Amatriciana.
I like it hot.
I use the seeds as well because there's the power.
The macho! Then you want to get to the proper stuff.
Can I put in a little bit more, for me? - No, no.
- To be macho! - No, no, no.
- No stronger? - That's enough.
- Just for me, go on.
Now, for this dish, Gennaro, I've got bucatini.
- You know what bucatini is? - Yeah.
- It's got a little hole right through - In the middle.
In the middle.
It's just to make it lighter.
You know, when you bite in the spaghetti, it's quite sort of hard? Hard, sort of, al dente? Here you have a little bit of softness and bucatini's very much Rome, - Napoli, all of the south.
- Yeah.
Now that it's boiling we take How much pasta? Well, this is my portion.
Gennaro, we don't have very much sauce there.
- Well, just in case.
- OK, just in case.
You put the pasta like this and now it cooks for about eight minutes.
No Italian pasta dish is complete without a salad, so I have something very typical of Rome.
First, I must remove the outer leaves, to reveal the little gems within.
That's called puntarelle.
This is a plant of chicory, in the sense that they are little, sort of, shoots.
Now, what I need, Gennaro, is those to be cut in very, very small strips.
You give me always a fantastic job to do, Antonio - But it's pretty obvious, you see, like this.
- OK.
And OK, so what do you do with that? So simple.
Here.
OK, then, because you are so clever, do the rest.
Now, the pasta is cooked, in my opinion.
So, I never, never, never take the pasta and put it under the cold water, as many people do, because you wash away all the goodness.
Ah, that's wonderful.
Shaking a little bit? - Yeah, shaking, shaking, shaking - Shaking a bit.
The puntarelle has a strong flavour and needs a strong dressing.
So, I am pounding up garlic, anchovies, olive oil and a little white wine vinegar.
Just tell me when.
- When.
- Just in case.
Yes.
A few freshly picked mint leaves.
Ah, then add it and this classic Roman salad is done.
Do you want more olive oil on it? No, it's enough! There is only one way to prove it.
Delightful.
Fresh, nice, crunchy.
Everything you wish from a salad.
Traditional food the Roman way, finished off with a strong pecorino.
Gennaro, perfect food for bacchanalia.
What is it, bacchanalia? Er, orgies, in other words, of food, of wine - every possible pleasure.
The right food for us! It's unbelievable, Antonio.
Lovely and fresh in the puntarelle.
This is, so It's very macho food.
You know, I feel very healthy, very good.
My god, yes! - Very macho.
- Very macho! We are back on the road to the capital.
The great city of Rome.
But, er, before we take on the gladiators, there's just time for a little man's snack.
It's a local speciality.
What is it? W-w-what is it? Horse meat? A wonderful horse meat.
- Can I have some? - Yeah, you can.
Here.
It gives you enormous power.
Traditionally, the Italian male had two functions - to eat and to make love.
When did your, really, manhood start, Gennaro? How old, I mean.
Well, er, I don't know, I can't remember, but I know I was the age of 13, 14, 15? Well, I can beat you there because I was 11.
What you talking about? 11?! - Yeah.
- Where? Oh, that bit doesn't matter.
Everybody knows we Italians are the world's best lovers.
Maybe that is because we are not afraid to taste the food of love.
- Let's see.
- Buongiorno! Buongiorno! We are visiting a butcher who provides a special service for his gentleman customers.
Cosa compra? It's more horsemeat and it's a very delicate cut! - Gennaro? - I don't He will buy slices of testicle of a horse.
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Proprieta afrodisiache.
Just like via Viagra.
No, no! Un afrodisiaco naturale, non viagra! This a natural aphrodisiac.
So this is testicle of a horse.
My goodness! That, that's incredible.
Ho cinque mogli.
He has five, five wives! That's unbelievable.
With this? And he makes everyone happy.
Ok.
Can I have 20, please! Have a look, have a look, have a look! Let me look, let me look.
It's a little bit painful, actually, to see that! It's SO big as well.
Gennaro, are you jealous? - Lovely, lovely, lovely.
- Oh, G! Oh, Gennaro, he invite us to eat - Yeah? - .
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In his house, to - to taste them.
- Yeah.
- Con piacere! With pleasure! - Grazie.
Gennaro, I am really curious to see those if those testicles are tasty.
Well, I wanted to see which are tasty, yeah? Go, go, go, go, go! Enyo is the same age as me, and he recently married his fifth wife, Viviana.
I asked Viviana, which is the wife, if, er, eating those things, it's, erm, erm, more exciting.
I know, you asked that! They do swimming, they do gym and, er, they make love, obviously! Scaloppina is usually breaded chicken or veal, but Viviana says testicles are better for stirring the fires of Enyo's romantic soul.
Enyo told me that you become poet in eating, er, testicles.
Diving into your eyes.
He'd just like to, to die in the sea of love.
It's a testicle taster menu.
We can eat now? The scaloppina and another dish - testicle fried in butter and lemon juice.
Grazie.
Buon appe It tastes like, erm, a sweet bread.
Actually, they're very, very good.
I do like it.
I'm worried about the side effect.
Antonio! He's just hilarious.
Do you know what? I'm going to try one of these as well.
Do you know what, Antonio? I feel quite strong now! Viviana! Oh, I want to go home! I just want to go home! That was an experience.
- What an experience.
- Yes.
So it seems like a traditional Italian lover, il grande amatore is alive and well here in Lazio.
But just 30 kilometres up the road is a sight to chill the blood of any traditional Italian man.
Perhaps attitudes are changing more than we thought.
Oh, look at this, look at this! In the town of Rocca Canterano, the young people are doing something I never expected to see.
It never happen in our day! What do you feel about all of this? - These people are crazy.
- They are crazy.
The men here are celebrating the feast of Saint Martin, the patron saint of cornuti - the men who get cheated on by their wives.
Excuse me, are you a cornuto? Cornuti?! I don't know.
I-I don't think so.
In our day, calling some a cornuto was the ultimate insult.
If your wife goes with somebody else, then I would feel - I'd feel - I would feel very, - very, very sad about it.
- Yeah.
I would feel VERY upset.
Pretty obvious.
- Course, it will hurt.
- Yes.
What about the other way round? - They feel the hurt as well.
- Well Yeah, course they do! Have you been in the situation yourself? Antonio, I no, I no read, I no speak, I cannot hear you.
Yes, no, you are three apes, all together.
- Yeah, I-I no, I no understand! - Yeah.
Here, any man who has been unlucky in love gets his moment, when he is crowned King of the Cuckolds.
Then get to sit in the cuckold's throne.
You are the cuckold of the year! Antonio, help! What a friend you are! Believe me, I will get you.
I'm going.
- Come on, let's go.
- Be careful with your wife.
After the shock of the festival of the Cuckolds, we need comfort food.
This is a pepper frittata.
My mother used to do it quite a lot.
Look, what wonderful big, big peppers.
Gennaro, you can cut them, in, like this, - and then in pieces like this, please.
- OK, I'll do that.
OK, now I need a little bit of the yellow one.
Yellow one.
- Clean it properly.
- OK.
Ooh, wonderful olive oil, look at this.
This is a relief after this festivity that we went to, Gennaro.
- But you had those.
- Yeah.
Yeah! Gennaro, could you imagine, for example, at the time, - your mother going with somebody else - No.
What your father would have done? - Killed her.
- Boom! Yeah, probably.
In a marriage, it was allowed to kill your wife, divorzio all'Italiana - divorce, Italian style - because if the wife was caught going with somebody else, he would kill her and it was fine.
- It's enough for you? - Yeah, all right.
So they have to, now, cook until they start to caramelise the edges, - it mean that they are cooked, before I do the omelette.
- Yeah.
Meanwhile, Gennaro, would you be so kind to fry the pepperoncini? Lovely They're peppers and they are sweet, and you cook them whole, as they are.
All of them.
And they need just to be fried just a little bit on each side, and then you'll eat them with the seeds because they are all sweet.
However, 1%, every 100 of those, one can be hot.
Gennaro, that's up to you to find it! You know, when you have the, sort of, unpleasant, antisocial behaviour of the garlic is when the garlic is raw.
So, the garlic has to be cooked to be digestible.
Put the salt.
Not too much.
Now, toss a little bit.
Yeah, they're ready, Antonio, now, yeah? - Those, they are ready, yes.
- Yeah.
Right.
Wonderful.
Exactly as they should be.
Now I crack a dozen eggs into a bowl and beat them well.
- Ready, Antonio? - Almost.
Not yet, because now it comes the vinegar to give more flavour.
White wine vinegar.
At this stage, it's like an agrodolce, a sweet and sour.
Yes, a sweet and sour, yes.
This is already good as it is, as a sort of side dish with grilled meat.
Add the beaten eggs to the pepper fried with vinegar.
And when I see that it's not too moist anymore, then I leave it to build the lovely crust.
Can I start to try one of these, Antonio? Oh, yes.
In fact, I would like to have one as well.
Did you find the, the strong one? The hot one? Yes, I have.
Yes, it doesn't stick anymore.
Now we can turn it the other side.
I don't want to toss it like that cos otherwise it can stick there.
Antonio, you can never toss that one, do you see how big it is? - Oops - Yeah.
- Wonderful! Look at this! Look at this! Now, one, two, three, Gennaro, look at this, what happen here There we are.
Slice now.
Well done.
And I suppose this is a wonderful vegetarian meal.
- Perfect! Let's have a look.
Stand there.
Da, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de La festa dei cornuti.
All this gaming and stupid thing, we go to Rome.
- Come on.
- Let's go.
Mighty Rome! Where boys become men and every building is a monument to manly power.
Come on, boy! Yeah! Power of the Caesars.
The power of the Popes.
And of course, the gladiators.
Oh, my god! That is the Coliseum.
Don't overtake me, don't stand there! Prego.
Prego.
For Roman combat, these days, you got to take to the streets.
Come on, come on, move up, move up.
Pull up.
If you can't be a macho driver in Rome, where can you be one? Volare! Finally! Where the hell have you been? That Vespa looks like a ripe cherry.
You look very well on red.
- Antonio.
- Yes? That is colour is the Ferrari colour.
It is a Ferrari colour, yes.
When it's grown up, that Vespa Will be a Ferrari.
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Will be a Ferrari.
In ancient times, Romans showed off their wealth with lavish banquets.
They never served the same thing twice.
When Italians come here, they don't do the sights, they come to eat.
Andiamo, andiamo, oh And Volpetti is the right place to start.
Antonio, the smell! Gennaro, this is the shop of my heart.
Over the years, brothers Emilio and Claudio have built up a rich hoard of gastronomic treasures.
- E' ubriacato - Aspetta, aspetta, aspetta.
- Drunken in wine.
- Bonarda wine.
E' come un gesto sacerdotale.
This is almost a religious act.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
- Agh Bellissimo! - He is a showman as well.
Formaggio di fossa, a cheese matured in Earth.
- That's fantastic.
It looks fantastic.
- I know.
And now for some caciocavallo.
It's from Sicily and has a secret ingredient.
What is inside here? What is inside here? - Burro? No.
- He said, inside is a surprise.
What can be more delicious than cheese infused with lime? - Another communion.
Fantastic.
Rome was not built in a day.
Neither was the reputation of the typical Italian male.
But these days, there are those who would undo the work of centuries.
- Man.
- Man.
- Housewife.
- Housewife.
The association of Italian househusbands would like to see all men do women's work.
Apparently, they do all the services that the woman used to do in the home.
So they can do my shirt and your shirt.
- You cook as well? - I cook.
Ah, you cook! That's good.
Are you sweeping? Yeah? Washing? Washing.
For me, it's something that, uh I always felt I'm an Italian, I can be anywhere around the world, but I'm a man, I always wanted to be a macho A little bit macho remain, because working me and working my wife, we have more time to make love.
Aah! This is what I love.
I think I will start to do that as well.
Antonio, I can't imagine, when I left Italy, you know, to wear an apron, for a man, or just having a broom - No, for me - .
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Inside the house, was a taboo.
I myself, I got plenty time to make love, so I don't have to sweep the floor.
Let's go, come on.
Let's go to eat.
I was thinking I want to be a macho man.
- I wanna be a strong man.
- Yeah! I wanna be yeah! Go, Gennaro! But maybe the old-fashioned idea of the macho man is on the way out, and not every man is lucky enough to have a woman to run around after him.
Divorce is up by 70%.
That's one marriage terminated every 33 minutes.
Buonasera, tutti! These men are learning to look after themselves for the first time in their lives.
So I had to redefine completely my figure, uh, as a man, as a person, as an Italian, as a father.
Yes, he is divorced as well.
TV Chef Fabio Campoli is teaching fellow divorcees of the Daddy's Pride Movement some fairly basic recipes.
Giorgio has to learn to cut, to chop like this.
Forza, Giorgio! Giorgio! Bravo, Giorgio! Yeah! Gentlemen, I would like to tell you one thing, I have been divorced three times.
To avoid what you do now, I learned cooking before I was married! But what these guys really want is to be able to cook for their kids, when they get them on their weekly visits.
And now you have to, uh, sort of prepare food for those children? Yeah, uh, especially for my first, uh, daughter.
Every week you see your daughter or? Uh, around twice or three times a week.
So you cook her something and, - uh, you try to actually be - Yeah.
- like it is one big family.
- Yeah.
And you, how many children? Quanti bambini hai? - One.
- One? Yes.
Junior.
- And is he spoilt? - My big love.
That, that's wonderful to hear that, a father, this is my big love.
And, um, a good opportunity for us to express love for our children.
What is more interesting for me is to see that in Italy, what looks like the social element is going apart, is not.
They are coming all together.
Like the food brings them together.
That should be an example for all of the world.
Yes.
I full agree with you, that, Antonio.
These men need help, so I am showing them my favourite artichoke dish, so they can make themselves very popular with Junior.
Flour.
Pastellina Another little bit.
Without Gennaro, what could I do without Gennaro? Emilio, where are you? Dove sei, Emilio, vieni.
Guarda anche te.
So, this is the, uh, message to every man that doesn't know what to do, take an artichoke, cut it in slices, clean it, already put the salt, Gennaro.
Thank you.
And, uh, put a little egg, a little flour in oil, and you have a lovely appetiser.
To salt the stuff here, anything that is fried actually, you put the salt in the batter first, so that the batter gives the flavour, and you don't add the salt afterwards, destroying the entire crispiness.
Ragazzi, guardate che cosa! That's fantastic.
Some of them, they have been abandoned by their wives, some, they abandoned their wife, but the result is that they have children, and those children, probably they love their papa, and they want something for them, a sense of love, that's all.
In my opinion, everybody that produces food, produces love.
Simone, do you think you can cook this simple dish? - Well, I think so, yeah.
- It's easy.
I will try, as I tell, as I told you, I will try to get artichokes tomorrow, and maybe I will try to do it.
And what you gonna call them? Antonio Artichokes? I will call them "Papa Artichokes.
" Papa Artichoke! Male fellowship is a good thing, and we were glad to be part of it.
Beautiful.
Argh! Look at this! - Fantastico! - Fantastic! But what happened to the Caesars, the men of power, the men that made Rome great? Would they join a support group? Maybe we find the powerful man here.
My god, do you see the body? What awhat a man! The new kind of Roman superman is called palestrati.
Roughly translated it means workout man.
If you're able to do that, Gennaro, you win everywhere.
And gyms have never been more popular in Rome.
Gennaro, you know where you could work? Antonio, I'm exercising.
Shut up, please, because I get too tired.
Ok.
And this.
He needed to do 20.
I can feel the exercise give me the power of a god.
Five! How many? Seven! I don't think it's doing anything for Antonio! Show us your body.
Be careful, Gennaro, that you don't do anything else.
That is fantastic.
Gennaro, you lose there.
I am afraid you lose there.
I change my mind.
Did you see him?! I saw it.
The hell with the palastrati.
I know.
I don't need exercise, Antonio, I think we need food.
After exercise like that, we are hungry.
But I never expected the lunch would be like this.
Celery, grapefruit and carrots.
This is the elixir.
And I see a raspberry on top.
Yeah, well Salute! Very sissy.
I, I love it, but you know, I don't know if it gives that power.
Do you think? I don't know, I don't think it'd do anything.
I'd prefer a lovely plate of spaghetti and steak.
Huh! So much for a meal fit for palastrati! We are starving, we need a feast.
If you want a true Roman feast, Romans will tell you Antica Pesa is the place.
- Antica Pesa.
- Antica Pesa.
We have luck here.
- Let's eat! - I want also be a gladiator, with a Vespa.
'Let's hope they have proper gladiator food here.
' Good evening.
Gennaro.
- Simone.
- Simone.
So tell me, Simone, what is the speciality here? The traditional dishes of the Roman kitchen, Roman cuisine.
- So the real Roman kitchen? - Yeah.
Yes.
Antonio, Roman food is fantastic.
- I love it.
- Really looking forward to it.
It is indeed.
And you don't tart it up, the food, the meat? It's still visible that it's normal food? Yes.
- Not complicated or - No.
- Whatever you bring our table, we clear the table for you.
- OK.
- I can guarantee you.
- OK.
Thank goodness Chef Simone is going to answer our prayers.
Dinner at last.
This is a little a little cake with 'When the man say little, he wasn't joking! 'But it does look very pretty.
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With basil.
Wow! Here we have something in the box.
We got some typical products of the region.
Wonderful! This is a picnic.
Yeah.
- Three different cheese.
- Yeah.
- Little prosciutto there.
- Yeah.
- And then what is inside that white? - We have the porchetta.
We have the um - So very typical Roman specialities? - Yes.
We have lentils.
And what is on top? Is a kind of um, guanciale.
Oh yeah, the cheek.
'The trouble with this kind of food, it's too fussy.
' What is it? This is a kind of hamburger.
Hamburger? Yeah.
It's homemade ketchup and it's very, very special, with tomato and vinegar.
Go for it.
'So much for our Roman banquet.
' They follow the modern way of cooking in Italy, which is what I don't really much like.
But this one, the little mini picnic for mini bears It's very dressy, but I believe it's very much a sort of playing around.
'I couldn't believe it.
'You never saw an emperor eating finger food.
' It is expensive here? It's not cheap.
'We are starving! Time to get cooking.
'I'm going to make Antonio a dish fit for Julius Caesar himself.
' A lovely brasato di manzo in vino rosso.
Braised beef in red wine.
For this recipe, you need one kilogram of topside.
- So, you are the emperor.
- No, no.
Do you know, today - Oh, Gennaro! - Come on.
Gennaro! - Come on.
Oh, bless you.
Gennaro! First for start, you should have a nice piece of beef.
That's a beautiful piece of beef.
This is beautiful flavour of a beef.
'I need to prepare a marinade 'to make the beef tasty and tender.
'For flavour, I'm chopping onions, 'garlic, carrots and a stick of celery.
' Why do you chop it so small? Because I want all this almost melting in the wine.
God, I'm good! Again, the celery, you do exactly the same.
'The vegetables go in a dish 'big enough to hold the beef, 'along with black pepper and a couple of bay leaves.
' So you give me a crown - and now you destroy it? - Just a little bit.
One and two.
'I don't want the meat to fall to pieces when it's cooked' - You'll do it? - Yes.
'So I tie it up with a nice, clean piece of string.
' Pull it, turn it around, and through one.
Fantastic.
One, two, three, four.
Ah! And then all the meat can all stay together.
Mm-hm.
It looks beautiful, yes.
And then you put all inside.
OK.
Two sprigs of rosemary, one and two.
Yes.
I love the noise.
'You must leave the meat to marinade overnight 'or at least for 12 hours, and do not use cooking wine.
'The better the wine, the better the taste.
' This dish is fit for a king.
'But Antonio is hungry, he cannot wait.
'So I'm cooking this piece without marinade.
'It will still taste fantastic.
' Ah, let me show my muscles.
You are really a master chef.
'First, we fry the meat to seal the juices.
'Then pour all the marinade in a cooking pan, 'and when it comes to the boil, return the beef.
'Add a little bit of salt.
' I didn't want to put the salt in the marinade because the salt make the meat tough.
So if I put in now, I can balance just right.
Slowly, slowly, slowly.
I'm going to turn it down .
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And cook it for about two hours.
What are we going to do for two hours? I wanted to peruse, actually, what this cellar is about.
Goodness, 1950! - 1950? - Yeah, this one here.
- Where? Which one? - This one here.
Hold this glass.
- So they put 'em inside the barrel.
- Yeah.
- Stick the light out.
- Yeah.
Ooh, that's wonderful.
I hope that it tastes as it looks, Gennaro.
You make it really Now it is cooked.
Tender, full of wine.
Fit for a king.
Look how soft it is, Antonio! It dissolved! - Tear it apart.
- It is so drunk.
Whatever you do, do it quick, because I am hungry.
Oh yes, yes, yes.
Ah-h-h! A little bit more.
A little bit more.
Ahh.
Just a little bit of this lovely juice, which is on top.
Mmm.
Yum, yum, yum.
With a nice bit of slice of bread, Antonio - Thank you.
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For you, on the side.
Gennaro.
What? You are the emperor.
- Did you think I deserve it? - Yeah.
I am glad, Gennaro, that I find a real man in Rome.
Ah, thank you.
'Of course, there is real solid food available in Rome, 'made by real solid men.
'You just have to know where to look.
'Ah, pizza.
But this is not an average pizzeria.
' - Please.
- Thank you.
'We are in a prison, where inmates Riccardo and Luca 'are making pizza for the local schools and hospitals.
' Look at this, this is So, he has to pay a debt to society and that's why he's here.
Can we taste this pizza, Riccardo? - Yeah.
I'm starving.
Food.
Food, glorious food.
Food.
Oh, my cheese is going.
OK, Antonio, I'll give you some here.
No, give me the piece here.
Very good.
I don't know how many people outside, - they can do pizza like this.
- Really? They have done mistakes in life, mistakes of judgement or whatever, and that's why they're here.
So, and they are now, they paid for it, and now they're prepared to, uh, to be normal again.
That's good.
'But I wondered if, being a traditional man, 'Luca was worried about being released.
' The world changes very quickly, so he feels that, uh, it will be difficult to It is, yeah.
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Join the society again.
'Luca knows all too well that the balance of power here in Rome 'has dramatically shifted away from men.
' - Buongiorno.
- Buongiorno.
So, tell me, who's in charge of this prison? It's me.
I'll say no more, Antonio! Gennaro, it's an honour.
I never, never saw something like this.
She's the boss.
My goodness! Ah, did you hear what she said? That the Italian woman - Is very clever.
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- She is very clever.
Having met a lady governor, it's clear to see why Rome's restaurants serve dainty portions and the guys are working out.
The good news is, men here are now adapting to a more modern way of thinking.
So the Italian man, after all, has changed, and has changed, above all, because the woman has many, many more liberties, many more possibilities, and chance to become what really she wants to become.
So, in a way, we're going to get a new macho woman.
UhA more assertive woman, a more powerful woman, but I don't think the woman can be ever macho.
So, in a way, woman wanted the man to be a macho, wanted to be in charge, but at the back of their mind, they're those in charge.
- No, I know, I know what happen.
- Yeah.
The woman want to command, but want the man to be a wonderful figura, commanding, so to be proud in front of others.
So who is the macho, the woman or the man? Well I don't know.
So let's do half and half, that's all.
Are you a macho? I am not.
That's good.
I am regular.
'The macho Italian man is clearly a thing of the past, 'and I think this is a good thing.
'At the very least, with a woman at work, 'a man can spend more time with his mates.
' Panino con porchetta.
Due, due.
Ohhh, the smell! Porchetta! You have it all on your mouth.
Gennaro, you are a good friend.
'And I just love him! 'And what a time we had together.
' Stay there! Don't move.
This journey has brought us back to childhood And I was the most happy boy in the world.
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And to the days of our youth.
' White leather shoes, Gennaro.
- And - And white trousers.
You were very, very stylish.
'We have hunted' Antonio wants something to eat.
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And gathered' - A little bit of dandelion.
- Yeah.
Oh, yes! '.
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And we have eaten lots of wonderful food.
' 'And, at journey's end '.
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We have come to know what it is to be Italian men.
'For us, it means cooking the greatest food in the world' '.
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With the very best of friends.
' To this beautiful day.
You're a friend.
' Mm, they're wonderful.
'Food is my life.
' Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is almost a religious act.
Hallelujah! What I'm cooking, so good.
'And I am Gennaro Contaldo.
' I just can't believe it! 'I, too, am devoted to food.
'For years, I was Antonio's assistant.
' Just a minute.
Do you want to cook it? No, no, no, but it's holding the lump there.
'Now, he's my best friend.
' Italia! 'It has been nearly 50 years since we lived in Italy.
' Beautiful! 'And we have come back to see 'if we still have a taste for the old country.
' Wonderful.
The freshest butter ever.
Come on, boy! Come on! Yeah! Come on! 'We are on our way to Rome' '.
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Where Italian boys go to become a man.
' - When they grow up, the best car - Would be a Ferrari.
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Would be a Ferrari.
'So, what is life for Italian men these days?' Gennaro, you lose there.
Buon appetito! 'And do they enjoy the same simple pleasures we did 'when we were young?' He has five wives.
With this.
And it makes everyone happy.
There! There is one.
- Where? - There, go there.
'We are on a voyage of discovery.
' 'But with Gennaro on board, the whole thing could be a disaster.
' Don't look at me.
'But don't worry' 'It will be fantastic, just as long as there is plenty to eat.
' Lovely! We are travelling through the region called Lazio, on our way to the capital, Roma.
We are on a journey to find out what it means to be Italian men today.
Very nice, huh? I like it.
Lazio is fertile and rugged, and living here is tough.
In the old days, men liked fast cars and fancy women.
But they kept their wives under lock and key.
Is it still the same today? Do you think there will be much action here in the winter time? I don't know, but I believe, - because this is a very small village - Yeah? .
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Here, the woman is still woman Yeah? .
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And the man has to be the man, because otherwise how can you do it? So you mean a man has to be a man? Yeah.
Like me? What do you mean?! It's just fantastic.
Wonderful scenery.
Look at the view! This is Vallinfreda, home of the Scanziani family.
They have been farming sheep in these parts for over 100 years.
Buongiorno.
Mama is in the kitchen.
And Alessandro, the eldest son, is out in the valley, tending the family herds.
I wanted to know if Alessandro was like the tough farmers I remember from when I was young.
I like to have him as bodyguard.
Would be fantastic.
I remember men in my family who were "Uomini duri" - hard men like Alessandro.
When they come home they were "Servito e riverito" - served and revered.
Every morning at five o'clock, she gets up because Alessandro goes very early to work, at five o'clock, to make him the coffee.
That's unbelievable.
He comes in and if she would like to sleep a little bit longer, says, "My goodness, you are still in bed.
Where's my coffee?" That's quite something.
Alessandro expects lunch, a large lunch, to be on the table at one, without fail.
To be sure this happens, the women must work together.
His sister, Marcia, his wife, Sonia, and, of course, Mama.
And no-one can eat until Alessandro gives the signal.
Buon appetito! It's a fortifying lunch for a hardworking man.
Cured meats, home-produced Pecorino Romano cheese .
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And Mama's homemade fettuccine.
Incidentally, I just heard that the mother never comes to the table.
Only for the dessert, because she has to serve in the kitchen, she has to prepare.
How is it? The pasta? 'May I say, it almost feels like the good old days, 'when everyone knew where they stood.
' Salute, Alessandro.
'A man could be a man and a woman could be a woman.
' In Lazio, they have a saying, "Uomo di pancia, uomo di sostanza.
" "The man with a belly is a man of substance.
" Bloody hell! My God, look at the size of that men! Here, in Vallinfreda, is the super-size models that pull the crowds.
Yeah, but did you see the other one? He has the biggest stomach, I think.
Every year, Alessandro and his friends host a competition to see which of them can gain the most weight in an hour.
It's a badge of honour, and it's time to get weighed.
Ah, mamma mia! - Whoa! 170 kilos! - 170 kilo! 'Alessandro is the heavyweight champion, 'but last year's victory cost him a trip to the hospital - '.
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With chronic stomach pains.
' - wow! Look! - Oh! Oh, my god! - My goodness.
- Cominciare! - Buon appetito! So, this is only the antipasto, so to say.
Another one.
I never thought that a man can eat so much.
I find it disgusting.
Just like feeding animals! Alfredo wants to beat Alessandro, because last year he was first, and this year, he will be first.
The feeling is to be strong, and it's not just that the sense of being greedy and No, he is being strong.
The women are very busy making the next load of pasta.
Seeing man eating makes them very excited.
The cheese - to make you feel strong, also very virile.
Strong man! We all need a strong man, this is what it's all about.
Hey! Marta! 'Now the action is really hotting up.
' This times it's cacio e pepe - pasta with salty pecorino cheese and fiery pepper.
Pecorino e pepe! Look at that! Next, the food of emperors, entrails.
This is the entrail of a young lamb that hasn't eaten the grass yet, so the entrail is full of milk, and they braise it.
'A feast fit for Caesar.
' One hour and five courses later, the food has all gone.
Antonio first.
'It's time to weigh the hefty giants of Vellinfreda.
' Oh, Gennaro, go away from me.
I know you.
Now you put always your foot on my thing.
I don't! 'At the weigh-in, Emilio registered 165 kilos.
' Emilio, 170 kilos! Five kilos more.
'Next up, Alfredo, Alessandro's biggest rival.
'Will he take his crown?' - How many kilo? - 133.
'That is one stone of food.
' Tell me, how do you feel? Ah bene, bene! It's good, good! 'All eyes are on last year's champion, Alessandro.
' Only two kilos.
That's four kilos less than Alfredo.
The man mountain has been toppled.
The winner is Alfredo! Alfredo, come in, Alfredo.
Hey! Viva, Alfredo! Bravo, Alfredo! Bravo, Alfredo! - Uh, the ladies, they like it.
- They do love it, yes.
- They love it! - Did you see the eyes? - Yes.
- The wife, girls, they looked They're really very proud.
Lovely village.
- That's good.
No, I really enjoyed - Good, good memory.
- Good people, a good memory, good food.
- Yeah.
The kind of pasta the big men were eating is the kind that made italian cooking famous, real food for your man.
What are you making, Antonio? I want to show you how to make the Bucatini all'amatriciana.
Amatrice is a little town near Rome and from there comes this very simple, but wonderful recipe.
Locals will use guanciale, or pig's cheek, for this delicious pasta sauce.
But a nice pancetta or lean bacon will do just as well.
I fry my pancetta with the onion, and then put a little bit of wine.
We can put a little bit of wine to stop and you loosen up, a little bit, the sticky stuff that is on the bottom, which is very good for the taste.
- It's called de-glazing.
- Oh, really? Yeah.
Add a little pinch of salt and let it simmer.
Can I give you a little hand? Can I help you? - Yeah, you give me only a little hand.
- OK.
Not a big one.
'Next, you chop four fresh tomatoes.
' So, more busy than this sauce here could be, yes? It's fantastic.
You prepare the sauce in advance, then you cook the pasta and you put the pasta with the sauce, and Bob me uncle.
- What? - Bob me uncle.
- What? - Bob me uncle! Usually, you say Bob your uncle, I say Bob me uncle, OK? Yeah, all right.
Mm.
The smell, it's quite wonderful, yes.
Now I need a little bit of chilli for, uh, our Amatriciana.
I like it hot.
I use the seeds as well because there's the power.
The macho! Then you want to get to the proper stuff.
Can I put in a little bit more, for me? - No, no.
- To be macho! - No, no, no.
- No stronger? - That's enough.
- Just for me, go on.
Now, for this dish, Gennaro, I've got bucatini.
- You know what bucatini is? - Yeah.
- It's got a little hole right through - In the middle.
In the middle.
It's just to make it lighter.
You know, when you bite in the spaghetti, it's quite sort of hard? Hard, sort of, al dente? Here you have a little bit of softness and bucatini's very much Rome, - Napoli, all of the south.
- Yeah.
Now that it's boiling we take How much pasta? Well, this is my portion.
Gennaro, we don't have very much sauce there.
- Well, just in case.
- OK, just in case.
You put the pasta like this and now it cooks for about eight minutes.
No Italian pasta dish is complete without a salad, so I have something very typical of Rome.
First, I must remove the outer leaves, to reveal the little gems within.
That's called puntarelle.
This is a plant of chicory, in the sense that they are little, sort of, shoots.
Now, what I need, Gennaro, is those to be cut in very, very small strips.
You give me always a fantastic job to do, Antonio - But it's pretty obvious, you see, like this.
- OK.
And OK, so what do you do with that? So simple.
Here.
OK, then, because you are so clever, do the rest.
Now, the pasta is cooked, in my opinion.
So, I never, never, never take the pasta and put it under the cold water, as many people do, because you wash away all the goodness.
Ah, that's wonderful.
Shaking a little bit? - Yeah, shaking, shaking, shaking - Shaking a bit.
The puntarelle has a strong flavour and needs a strong dressing.
So, I am pounding up garlic, anchovies, olive oil and a little white wine vinegar.
Just tell me when.
- When.
- Just in case.
Yes.
A few freshly picked mint leaves.
Ah, then add it and this classic Roman salad is done.
Do you want more olive oil on it? No, it's enough! There is only one way to prove it.
Delightful.
Fresh, nice, crunchy.
Everything you wish from a salad.
Traditional food the Roman way, finished off with a strong pecorino.
Gennaro, perfect food for bacchanalia.
What is it, bacchanalia? Er, orgies, in other words, of food, of wine - every possible pleasure.
The right food for us! It's unbelievable, Antonio.
Lovely and fresh in the puntarelle.
This is, so It's very macho food.
You know, I feel very healthy, very good.
My god, yes! - Very macho.
- Very macho! We are back on the road to the capital.
The great city of Rome.
But, er, before we take on the gladiators, there's just time for a little man's snack.
It's a local speciality.
What is it? W-w-what is it? Horse meat? A wonderful horse meat.
- Can I have some? - Yeah, you can.
Here.
It gives you enormous power.
Traditionally, the Italian male had two functions - to eat and to make love.
When did your, really, manhood start, Gennaro? How old, I mean.
Well, er, I don't know, I can't remember, but I know I was the age of 13, 14, 15? Well, I can beat you there because I was 11.
What you talking about? 11?! - Yeah.
- Where? Oh, that bit doesn't matter.
Everybody knows we Italians are the world's best lovers.
Maybe that is because we are not afraid to taste the food of love.
- Let's see.
- Buongiorno! Buongiorno! We are visiting a butcher who provides a special service for his gentleman customers.
Cosa compra? It's more horsemeat and it's a very delicate cut! - Gennaro? - I don't He will buy slices of testicle of a horse.
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Proprieta afrodisiache.
Just like via Viagra.
No, no! Un afrodisiaco naturale, non viagra! This a natural aphrodisiac.
So this is testicle of a horse.
My goodness! That, that's incredible.
Ho cinque mogli.
He has five, five wives! That's unbelievable.
With this? And he makes everyone happy.
Ok.
Can I have 20, please! Have a look, have a look, have a look! Let me look, let me look.
It's a little bit painful, actually, to see that! It's SO big as well.
Gennaro, are you jealous? - Lovely, lovely, lovely.
- Oh, G! Oh, Gennaro, he invite us to eat - Yeah? - .
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In his house, to - to taste them.
- Yeah.
- Con piacere! With pleasure! - Grazie.
Gennaro, I am really curious to see those if those testicles are tasty.
Well, I wanted to see which are tasty, yeah? Go, go, go, go, go! Enyo is the same age as me, and he recently married his fifth wife, Viviana.
I asked Viviana, which is the wife, if, er, eating those things, it's, erm, erm, more exciting.
I know, you asked that! They do swimming, they do gym and, er, they make love, obviously! Scaloppina is usually breaded chicken or veal, but Viviana says testicles are better for stirring the fires of Enyo's romantic soul.
Enyo told me that you become poet in eating, er, testicles.
Diving into your eyes.
He'd just like to, to die in the sea of love.
It's a testicle taster menu.
We can eat now? The scaloppina and another dish - testicle fried in butter and lemon juice.
Grazie.
Buon appe It tastes like, erm, a sweet bread.
Actually, they're very, very good.
I do like it.
I'm worried about the side effect.
Antonio! He's just hilarious.
Do you know what? I'm going to try one of these as well.
Do you know what, Antonio? I feel quite strong now! Viviana! Oh, I want to go home! I just want to go home! That was an experience.
- What an experience.
- Yes.
So it seems like a traditional Italian lover, il grande amatore is alive and well here in Lazio.
But just 30 kilometres up the road is a sight to chill the blood of any traditional Italian man.
Perhaps attitudes are changing more than we thought.
Oh, look at this, look at this! In the town of Rocca Canterano, the young people are doing something I never expected to see.
It never happen in our day! What do you feel about all of this? - These people are crazy.
- They are crazy.
The men here are celebrating the feast of Saint Martin, the patron saint of cornuti - the men who get cheated on by their wives.
Excuse me, are you a cornuto? Cornuti?! I don't know.
I-I don't think so.
In our day, calling some a cornuto was the ultimate insult.
If your wife goes with somebody else, then I would feel - I'd feel - I would feel very, - very, very sad about it.
- Yeah.
I would feel VERY upset.
Pretty obvious.
- Course, it will hurt.
- Yes.
What about the other way round? - They feel the hurt as well.
- Well Yeah, course they do! Have you been in the situation yourself? Antonio, I no, I no read, I no speak, I cannot hear you.
Yes, no, you are three apes, all together.
- Yeah, I-I no, I no understand! - Yeah.
Here, any man who has been unlucky in love gets his moment, when he is crowned King of the Cuckolds.
Then get to sit in the cuckold's throne.
You are the cuckold of the year! Antonio, help! What a friend you are! Believe me, I will get you.
I'm going.
- Come on, let's go.
- Be careful with your wife.
After the shock of the festival of the Cuckolds, we need comfort food.
This is a pepper frittata.
My mother used to do it quite a lot.
Look, what wonderful big, big peppers.
Gennaro, you can cut them, in, like this, - and then in pieces like this, please.
- OK, I'll do that.
OK, now I need a little bit of the yellow one.
Yellow one.
- Clean it properly.
- OK.
Ooh, wonderful olive oil, look at this.
This is a relief after this festivity that we went to, Gennaro.
- But you had those.
- Yeah.
Yeah! Gennaro, could you imagine, for example, at the time, - your mother going with somebody else - No.
What your father would have done? - Killed her.
- Boom! Yeah, probably.
In a marriage, it was allowed to kill your wife, divorzio all'Italiana - divorce, Italian style - because if the wife was caught going with somebody else, he would kill her and it was fine.
- It's enough for you? - Yeah, all right.
So they have to, now, cook until they start to caramelise the edges, - it mean that they are cooked, before I do the omelette.
- Yeah.
Meanwhile, Gennaro, would you be so kind to fry the pepperoncini? Lovely They're peppers and they are sweet, and you cook them whole, as they are.
All of them.
And they need just to be fried just a little bit on each side, and then you'll eat them with the seeds because they are all sweet.
However, 1%, every 100 of those, one can be hot.
Gennaro, that's up to you to find it! You know, when you have the, sort of, unpleasant, antisocial behaviour of the garlic is when the garlic is raw.
So, the garlic has to be cooked to be digestible.
Put the salt.
Not too much.
Now, toss a little bit.
Yeah, they're ready, Antonio, now, yeah? - Those, they are ready, yes.
- Yeah.
Right.
Wonderful.
Exactly as they should be.
Now I crack a dozen eggs into a bowl and beat them well.
- Ready, Antonio? - Almost.
Not yet, because now it comes the vinegar to give more flavour.
White wine vinegar.
At this stage, it's like an agrodolce, a sweet and sour.
Yes, a sweet and sour, yes.
This is already good as it is, as a sort of side dish with grilled meat.
Add the beaten eggs to the pepper fried with vinegar.
And when I see that it's not too moist anymore, then I leave it to build the lovely crust.
Can I start to try one of these, Antonio? Oh, yes.
In fact, I would like to have one as well.
Did you find the, the strong one? The hot one? Yes, I have.
Yes, it doesn't stick anymore.
Now we can turn it the other side.
I don't want to toss it like that cos otherwise it can stick there.
Antonio, you can never toss that one, do you see how big it is? - Oops - Yeah.
- Wonderful! Look at this! Look at this! Now, one, two, three, Gennaro, look at this, what happen here There we are.
Slice now.
Well done.
And I suppose this is a wonderful vegetarian meal.
- Perfect! Let's have a look.
Stand there.
Da, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de, de La festa dei cornuti.
All this gaming and stupid thing, we go to Rome.
- Come on.
- Let's go.
Mighty Rome! Where boys become men and every building is a monument to manly power.
Come on, boy! Yeah! Power of the Caesars.
The power of the Popes.
And of course, the gladiators.
Oh, my god! That is the Coliseum.
Don't overtake me, don't stand there! Prego.
Prego.
For Roman combat, these days, you got to take to the streets.
Come on, come on, move up, move up.
Pull up.
If you can't be a macho driver in Rome, where can you be one? Volare! Finally! Where the hell have you been? That Vespa looks like a ripe cherry.
You look very well on red.
- Antonio.
- Yes? That is colour is the Ferrari colour.
It is a Ferrari colour, yes.
When it's grown up, that Vespa Will be a Ferrari.
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Will be a Ferrari.
In ancient times, Romans showed off their wealth with lavish banquets.
They never served the same thing twice.
When Italians come here, they don't do the sights, they come to eat.
Andiamo, andiamo, oh And Volpetti is the right place to start.
Antonio, the smell! Gennaro, this is the shop of my heart.
Over the years, brothers Emilio and Claudio have built up a rich hoard of gastronomic treasures.
- E' ubriacato - Aspetta, aspetta, aspetta.
- Drunken in wine.
- Bonarda wine.
E' come un gesto sacerdotale.
This is almost a religious act.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
- Agh Bellissimo! - He is a showman as well.
Formaggio di fossa, a cheese matured in Earth.
- That's fantastic.
It looks fantastic.
- I know.
And now for some caciocavallo.
It's from Sicily and has a secret ingredient.
What is inside here? What is inside here? - Burro? No.
- He said, inside is a surprise.
What can be more delicious than cheese infused with lime? - Another communion.
Fantastic.
Rome was not built in a day.
Neither was the reputation of the typical Italian male.
But these days, there are those who would undo the work of centuries.
- Man.
- Man.
- Housewife.
- Housewife.
The association of Italian househusbands would like to see all men do women's work.
Apparently, they do all the services that the woman used to do in the home.
So they can do my shirt and your shirt.
- You cook as well? - I cook.
Ah, you cook! That's good.
Are you sweeping? Yeah? Washing? Washing.
For me, it's something that, uh I always felt I'm an Italian, I can be anywhere around the world, but I'm a man, I always wanted to be a macho A little bit macho remain, because working me and working my wife, we have more time to make love.
Aah! This is what I love.
I think I will start to do that as well.
Antonio, I can't imagine, when I left Italy, you know, to wear an apron, for a man, or just having a broom - No, for me - .
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Inside the house, was a taboo.
I myself, I got plenty time to make love, so I don't have to sweep the floor.
Let's go, come on.
Let's go to eat.
I was thinking I want to be a macho man.
- I wanna be a strong man.
- Yeah! I wanna be yeah! Go, Gennaro! But maybe the old-fashioned idea of the macho man is on the way out, and not every man is lucky enough to have a woman to run around after him.
Divorce is up by 70%.
That's one marriage terminated every 33 minutes.
Buonasera, tutti! These men are learning to look after themselves for the first time in their lives.
So I had to redefine completely my figure, uh, as a man, as a person, as an Italian, as a father.
Yes, he is divorced as well.
TV Chef Fabio Campoli is teaching fellow divorcees of the Daddy's Pride Movement some fairly basic recipes.
Giorgio has to learn to cut, to chop like this.
Forza, Giorgio! Giorgio! Bravo, Giorgio! Yeah! Gentlemen, I would like to tell you one thing, I have been divorced three times.
To avoid what you do now, I learned cooking before I was married! But what these guys really want is to be able to cook for their kids, when they get them on their weekly visits.
And now you have to, uh, sort of prepare food for those children? Yeah, uh, especially for my first, uh, daughter.
Every week you see your daughter or? Uh, around twice or three times a week.
So you cook her something and, - uh, you try to actually be - Yeah.
- like it is one big family.
- Yeah.
And you, how many children? Quanti bambini hai? - One.
- One? Yes.
Junior.
- And is he spoilt? - My big love.
That, that's wonderful to hear that, a father, this is my big love.
And, um, a good opportunity for us to express love for our children.
What is more interesting for me is to see that in Italy, what looks like the social element is going apart, is not.
They are coming all together.
Like the food brings them together.
That should be an example for all of the world.
Yes.
I full agree with you, that, Antonio.
These men need help, so I am showing them my favourite artichoke dish, so they can make themselves very popular with Junior.
Flour.
Pastellina Another little bit.
Without Gennaro, what could I do without Gennaro? Emilio, where are you? Dove sei, Emilio, vieni.
Guarda anche te.
So, this is the, uh, message to every man that doesn't know what to do, take an artichoke, cut it in slices, clean it, already put the salt, Gennaro.
Thank you.
And, uh, put a little egg, a little flour in oil, and you have a lovely appetiser.
To salt the stuff here, anything that is fried actually, you put the salt in the batter first, so that the batter gives the flavour, and you don't add the salt afterwards, destroying the entire crispiness.
Ragazzi, guardate che cosa! That's fantastic.
Some of them, they have been abandoned by their wives, some, they abandoned their wife, but the result is that they have children, and those children, probably they love their papa, and they want something for them, a sense of love, that's all.
In my opinion, everybody that produces food, produces love.
Simone, do you think you can cook this simple dish? - Well, I think so, yeah.
- It's easy.
I will try, as I tell, as I told you, I will try to get artichokes tomorrow, and maybe I will try to do it.
And what you gonna call them? Antonio Artichokes? I will call them "Papa Artichokes.
" Papa Artichoke! Male fellowship is a good thing, and we were glad to be part of it.
Beautiful.
Argh! Look at this! - Fantastico! - Fantastic! But what happened to the Caesars, the men of power, the men that made Rome great? Would they join a support group? Maybe we find the powerful man here.
My god, do you see the body? What awhat a man! The new kind of Roman superman is called palestrati.
Roughly translated it means workout man.
If you're able to do that, Gennaro, you win everywhere.
And gyms have never been more popular in Rome.
Gennaro, you know where you could work? Antonio, I'm exercising.
Shut up, please, because I get too tired.
Ok.
And this.
He needed to do 20.
I can feel the exercise give me the power of a god.
Five! How many? Seven! I don't think it's doing anything for Antonio! Show us your body.
Be careful, Gennaro, that you don't do anything else.
That is fantastic.
Gennaro, you lose there.
I am afraid you lose there.
I change my mind.
Did you see him?! I saw it.
The hell with the palastrati.
I know.
I don't need exercise, Antonio, I think we need food.
After exercise like that, we are hungry.
But I never expected the lunch would be like this.
Celery, grapefruit and carrots.
This is the elixir.
And I see a raspberry on top.
Yeah, well Salute! Very sissy.
I, I love it, but you know, I don't know if it gives that power.
Do you think? I don't know, I don't think it'd do anything.
I'd prefer a lovely plate of spaghetti and steak.
Huh! So much for a meal fit for palastrati! We are starving, we need a feast.
If you want a true Roman feast, Romans will tell you Antica Pesa is the place.
- Antica Pesa.
- Antica Pesa.
We have luck here.
- Let's eat! - I want also be a gladiator, with a Vespa.
'Let's hope they have proper gladiator food here.
' Good evening.
Gennaro.
- Simone.
- Simone.
So tell me, Simone, what is the speciality here? The traditional dishes of the Roman kitchen, Roman cuisine.
- So the real Roman kitchen? - Yeah.
Yes.
Antonio, Roman food is fantastic.
- I love it.
- Really looking forward to it.
It is indeed.
And you don't tart it up, the food, the meat? It's still visible that it's normal food? Yes.
- Not complicated or - No.
- Whatever you bring our table, we clear the table for you.
- OK.
- I can guarantee you.
- OK.
Thank goodness Chef Simone is going to answer our prayers.
Dinner at last.
This is a little a little cake with 'When the man say little, he wasn't joking! 'But it does look very pretty.
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With basil.
Wow! Here we have something in the box.
We got some typical products of the region.
Wonderful! This is a picnic.
Yeah.
- Three different cheese.
- Yeah.
- Little prosciutto there.
- Yeah.
- And then what is inside that white? - We have the porchetta.
We have the um - So very typical Roman specialities? - Yes.
We have lentils.
And what is on top? Is a kind of um, guanciale.
Oh yeah, the cheek.
'The trouble with this kind of food, it's too fussy.
' What is it? This is a kind of hamburger.
Hamburger? Yeah.
It's homemade ketchup and it's very, very special, with tomato and vinegar.
Go for it.
'So much for our Roman banquet.
' They follow the modern way of cooking in Italy, which is what I don't really much like.
But this one, the little mini picnic for mini bears It's very dressy, but I believe it's very much a sort of playing around.
'I couldn't believe it.
'You never saw an emperor eating finger food.
' It is expensive here? It's not cheap.
'We are starving! Time to get cooking.
'I'm going to make Antonio a dish fit for Julius Caesar himself.
' A lovely brasato di manzo in vino rosso.
Braised beef in red wine.
For this recipe, you need one kilogram of topside.
- So, you are the emperor.
- No, no.
Do you know, today - Oh, Gennaro! - Come on.
Gennaro! - Come on.
Oh, bless you.
Gennaro! First for start, you should have a nice piece of beef.
That's a beautiful piece of beef.
This is beautiful flavour of a beef.
'I need to prepare a marinade 'to make the beef tasty and tender.
'For flavour, I'm chopping onions, 'garlic, carrots and a stick of celery.
' Why do you chop it so small? Because I want all this almost melting in the wine.
God, I'm good! Again, the celery, you do exactly the same.
'The vegetables go in a dish 'big enough to hold the beef, 'along with black pepper and a couple of bay leaves.
' So you give me a crown - and now you destroy it? - Just a little bit.
One and two.
'I don't want the meat to fall to pieces when it's cooked' - You'll do it? - Yes.
'So I tie it up with a nice, clean piece of string.
' Pull it, turn it around, and through one.
Fantastic.
One, two, three, four.
Ah! And then all the meat can all stay together.
Mm-hm.
It looks beautiful, yes.
And then you put all inside.
OK.
Two sprigs of rosemary, one and two.
Yes.
I love the noise.
'You must leave the meat to marinade overnight 'or at least for 12 hours, and do not use cooking wine.
'The better the wine, the better the taste.
' This dish is fit for a king.
'But Antonio is hungry, he cannot wait.
'So I'm cooking this piece without marinade.
'It will still taste fantastic.
' Ah, let me show my muscles.
You are really a master chef.
'First, we fry the meat to seal the juices.
'Then pour all the marinade in a cooking pan, 'and when it comes to the boil, return the beef.
'Add a little bit of salt.
' I didn't want to put the salt in the marinade because the salt make the meat tough.
So if I put in now, I can balance just right.
Slowly, slowly, slowly.
I'm going to turn it down .
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And cook it for about two hours.
What are we going to do for two hours? I wanted to peruse, actually, what this cellar is about.
Goodness, 1950! - 1950? - Yeah, this one here.
- Where? Which one? - This one here.
Hold this glass.
- So they put 'em inside the barrel.
- Yeah.
- Stick the light out.
- Yeah.
Ooh, that's wonderful.
I hope that it tastes as it looks, Gennaro.
You make it really Now it is cooked.
Tender, full of wine.
Fit for a king.
Look how soft it is, Antonio! It dissolved! - Tear it apart.
- It is so drunk.
Whatever you do, do it quick, because I am hungry.
Oh yes, yes, yes.
Ah-h-h! A little bit more.
A little bit more.
Ahh.
Just a little bit of this lovely juice, which is on top.
Mmm.
Yum, yum, yum.
With a nice bit of slice of bread, Antonio - Thank you.
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For you, on the side.
Gennaro.
What? You are the emperor.
- Did you think I deserve it? - Yeah.
I am glad, Gennaro, that I find a real man in Rome.
Ah, thank you.
'Of course, there is real solid food available in Rome, 'made by real solid men.
'You just have to know where to look.
'Ah, pizza.
But this is not an average pizzeria.
' - Please.
- Thank you.
'We are in a prison, where inmates Riccardo and Luca 'are making pizza for the local schools and hospitals.
' Look at this, this is So, he has to pay a debt to society and that's why he's here.
Can we taste this pizza, Riccardo? - Yeah.
I'm starving.
Food.
Food, glorious food.
Food.
Oh, my cheese is going.
OK, Antonio, I'll give you some here.
No, give me the piece here.
Very good.
I don't know how many people outside, - they can do pizza like this.
- Really? They have done mistakes in life, mistakes of judgement or whatever, and that's why they're here.
So, and they are now, they paid for it, and now they're prepared to, uh, to be normal again.
That's good.
'But I wondered if, being a traditional man, 'Luca was worried about being released.
' The world changes very quickly, so he feels that, uh, it will be difficult to It is, yeah.
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Join the society again.
'Luca knows all too well that the balance of power here in Rome 'has dramatically shifted away from men.
' - Buongiorno.
- Buongiorno.
So, tell me, who's in charge of this prison? It's me.
I'll say no more, Antonio! Gennaro, it's an honour.
I never, never saw something like this.
She's the boss.
My goodness! Ah, did you hear what she said? That the Italian woman - Is very clever.
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- She is very clever.
Having met a lady governor, it's clear to see why Rome's restaurants serve dainty portions and the guys are working out.
The good news is, men here are now adapting to a more modern way of thinking.
So the Italian man, after all, has changed, and has changed, above all, because the woman has many, many more liberties, many more possibilities, and chance to become what really she wants to become.
So, in a way, we're going to get a new macho woman.
UhA more assertive woman, a more powerful woman, but I don't think the woman can be ever macho.
So, in a way, woman wanted the man to be a macho, wanted to be in charge, but at the back of their mind, they're those in charge.
- No, I know, I know what happen.
- Yeah.
The woman want to command, but want the man to be a wonderful figura, commanding, so to be proud in front of others.
So who is the macho, the woman or the man? Well I don't know.
So let's do half and half, that's all.
Are you a macho? I am not.
That's good.
I am regular.
'The macho Italian man is clearly a thing of the past, 'and I think this is a good thing.
'At the very least, with a woman at work, 'a man can spend more time with his mates.
' Panino con porchetta.
Due, due.
Ohhh, the smell! Porchetta! You have it all on your mouth.
Gennaro, you are a good friend.
'And I just love him! 'And what a time we had together.
' Stay there! Don't move.
This journey has brought us back to childhood And I was the most happy boy in the world.
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And to the days of our youth.
' White leather shoes, Gennaro.
- And - And white trousers.
You were very, very stylish.
'We have hunted' Antonio wants something to eat.
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And gathered' - A little bit of dandelion.
- Yeah.
Oh, yes! '.
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And we have eaten lots of wonderful food.
' 'And, at journey's end '.
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We have come to know what it is to be Italian men.
'For us, it means cooking the greatest food in the world' '.
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With the very best of friends.
' To this beautiful day.
You're a friend.