Sophie Grigson: Slice Of Italy

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Sophie Grigson: Slice Of Italy

The area around Sophie's home provides rich pastures for foraging. Sophie joins experts in search of summer herbs. She makes a simple grain salad with parsley and mint topped with asparagus.

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Season 2
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Sophie investigates the new ideas, new products and new twists on traditional foods that are opening nearby. New takeaways, a nectar produced from carob pods and a 24-hour vending machine.
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Sophie visits a canteen serving regional dishes at her local petrol station - a most unlikely location. Later she cooks a hearty dish for some old friends from Oxford and makes a roast chicken.
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Italy is a place full of contrasts and the food can either be very pale or full of chillies. Learn how to make the mildest ricotta cheese and visit Bari to experience Korean food Puglian-style.
It's hard to imagine Italian food without tomatoes. Broadcaster and food writer Sophie Grigson adores them and discovers how they are grown, prepared and preserved in Puglia.
Season 1
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Sophie visits a local cheese maker to see how they age their cheeses in caves and stuffs courgette flowers with local ricotta. She is also shown how to make the cakes known locally as nun's breasts.
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Sophie visits an almond farmer to discover how they are harvested and shelled. A local baker demonstrates how she makes the almond and cherry jam sweet treats that are served all over town.
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Sophie discovers the culinary delights of the Puglian coastline. She learns all about the sea urchin and how it's used with spaghetti. She also makes a delicious pasta sauce with the leftovers.
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Sophie meets a mussel farmer on the lagoon at Taranto. At home she prepares a mussel, potato and rice gratin and cooks an octopus stew for her guests at the trulli.
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Sophie helps with the cherry harvest and uses them in a favourite pastry.
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Puglia is one of the biggest producers of olive oil. At home, Sophie serves up a chocolate mousse with olive oil - a dish new to her Puglian neighbours.
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Sophie explores the traditional taralli biscuits made of wine and olive oil, goes in search of the perfect pizza and makes her own in the outdoor pizza oven.
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Sophie cooks orecchiette pasta at home and makes pasta with chickpeas for friends outdoors. She visits a pottery famous for its colourful pasta ceramics.
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Sophie explores how her Puglian neighbours eat and cook meat. She makes orecchiette pasta with meatballs, then visits her neighbour's countryside plot to cook pasta al forno and bombette.
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It's the weekly market in Sophie's town, her favourite day of the week. She makes zucchini alla poverella, then learns about stuffed aubergines, and asparagus frittata.
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