Two Greedy Italians

Two Greedy Italians is a BBC television series that first aired on BBC Two in the UK on May 4, 2011. The series sees the chefs Gennaro Contaldo and Antonio Carluccio travelling around Italy to see how society and food has evolved over the years. It was produced by Nicola Gooch. An accompanying cookery book was produced for the series. A second series (entitled Two Greedy Italians: Still Hungry) was broadcast in April and May 2012. The series has also been sold and broadcast internationally, including on the Australian channels ABC and SBS,^[1] the Swedish broadcaster SVT and the Norwegian broadcaster NRK.

Episodes

Series 1

• The Family (first broadcast May 4, 2011): Antonio and Gennaro return to Italy to discover what has changed in Italian culture;
• Poor Man's Food (aired May 11, 2011): The two chefs tour Campania and learn how poverty in the area created Italy's best-loved dishes;
• Regional Pride (first broadcast May 18, 2011): Antonio returns to his home town of Borgofranco, in the Italian Piedmont region;
• Saints and Miracles (first broadcast May 25, 2011): Atheist Antonio and devout Catholic Gennaro eat their way along a culinary pilgrimage through Apulia's monasteries, holy shrines and festivals.

Series 2

• Calabria and Bambinone (first broadcast April 19, 2012): Antonio and Gennaro begin the second series investigating how children's food in Italy has changed since they were young.
• Liguria and La Bella Figura (first broadcast April 26, 2012): The two chefs tour Portofino and observe how Italy's social history has created a culture which admires superficial accoutrements.
• The Alps and Arrangiarsi (first broadcast May 10, 2012): Arrangiarsi mesns the art of making do, and Antonio and Gennaro travel through Northern Italy exploring Italian resourcefulness.
• Lazio and Machismo (first broadcast May 17, 2012): The pair travel to Rome to look at how modern Italian men live.

References

External links

• Two Greedy Italians at BBC Programmes Series 1
• Two Greedy Italians at BBC Programmes Series 2
• Two Greedy Italians at the Internet Movie Database
• Two Greedy Italians at Carluccio's