Floyd on Italy

Season 1

1994 · 7 episodes

Episodes

1. 1

   1. Umbria

   2 Aug 1994

   Floyd takes a train ride through rolling landscapes, goes fishing at Lake Trasimeno and cooks up beef and mushrooms. Plus, he gets behind the wheel of a Ferrari.

2. 2

   2. Tuscany

   9 Aug 1994

   Floyd cooks a pigeon dish in a busy square, visits Sienna where he cooks a winter dish, and gets to stay in a castle converted to a hotel.

3. 3

   3. Sicily

   16 Aug 1994

   Floyd starts off on the west coast in Marsala, he visits and cooks a pizza from the salt fields south of Trapini, before heading to the island of Maretemo for a festival.

4. 4

   4. Puglia

   23 Aug 1994

   Floyd visits the pre-dawn fish auction in Molfetta and checks out the Romanesque cathedrals and Swabian castles built by Frederick II, the Norman conqueror.

5. 5

   5. Liguria and Piedmont

   30 Aug 1994

   Floyd takes a journey through Cinque Terre, where fishing villages nestle in the seaside cliffs on the Ligurian coast. He also goes to a chocolate factory.

6. 6

   6. Calabria

   6 Sept 1994

   Floyd joins the cheesemaker Gino, whilst he does the rounds of a handful of smallholdings in Marano, and then cooks up marinated wild boar.

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   7. Emilia Romagna & Venice

   13 Sept 1994

   Floyd visits Bologna, the capital of Emilia, which is full of beautiful buildings, medieval towers and churches. Then it's onto the home of Parmesan cheese.