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- European Languages, Italy: Culture and Cuisine (streaming, Academic Video Online) This video, produced by Greg Shepherd, is about Italian culture.
- Culinary Journeys, Season 1, Episode 1, Massimo Bottura: Modena to London (streaming, Academic Video Online) Massimo Bottura, the three Michelin-star chef from Modena, Northern Italy, combines inspiration from contemporary art with Italy's rich gastronomic heritage to create dishes that play with Italian traditions.
- Great Big Story, Making Im-pasta-ble Pasta (streaming, Academic Video Online) For more than 300 years, the world’s rarest pasta recipe and its intricate shaping technique have been passed down by generations of women in one Sardinian family. Today there are only a few women on the planet, including Paola Abraini, who know how to make “su filindeu.” The thread-like pasta is made exclusively by hand, requiring equal parts patience and craft to pull and fold the semolina dough into impossibly small, precise strands. Making the pasta is so tricky — and guarded — that for the past 200 years, the dish has only been served in a small town in Sardinia.
- Roman Restaurant Rhythms (streaming, Ethnographic Video Online) This delightful and mouth-watering documentary provides a 'backstage,' behind-the-scenes foray into the rhythms of food preparation in four traditional restaurants in Rome.
- Gourmet trip: italy (streaming, Academic Video Online) Join us as we head to Italy to explore the tastes, traditions and practice of world cuisine.
- Caught in a magic place (streaming, Ethnographic Video Online) For its customers, La Barrocciaia family restaurant, located in a traditional quarter of the old port of Livorno on the Tuscan coast of Italy, is a magical place. For them, it is a place of excellent cuisine, even of love. But for Tommi, the young man who has recently inherited the business from his grandfather, it is a great challenge to live up to the expectations of his family and his clients, not to speak of the sheer physical demands of his new role.
- Italy's Gastronomic Traditions (streaming, Library of Congress) Food historian Francine Segan discussed Italian cuisine.
