The Pizza Show: Sicily

you gotta spin it around to details when you're in Sicily one thing is a must gelato : brioche I'll take a bigger bite all right there we're here in Sicily one thing is a must gelato embryo sure [Music] I'm in Sicily well my family is from my mother's side of the family comes from Palermo the capital and my father's side is from the small town of BA Sheena just about 20 miles outside of the city I try to visit my family once a year and if I could time it right during the biggest celebration of all the feast of Santa for tonight on town's patron Singh this year I'm not only here for the feast I'm here for the pizza I was really good growing up in Brooklyn I ate Sicilian pizza two weeks at a pizzeria or at my grandmother's house it was bacon a rectangular pan crispy on the bottom generously topped with tomato sauce and mozzarella in New York it's pizza but in Sicily its Finch oniy a regionalized version of focaccia it's light spongy and traditionally topped with onions anchovies breadcrumbs and a hard sheep's milk cheese like a chihuahua but before I get into spin Choni I'm meeting up with my cousin Frankie to eat some of my favorite Sicilian specialties at Nino Palladino a legendary focaccia area in Palermo this is Nino Ballerina a fourth-generation street food vendor who earned his nickname from his graceful moves in the kitchen all right Frank what we gonna do some fun of vanilla some Bonnie banality or dowon's plain sandwich potato croquettes because Exuma mangia we are beyond munna they should be very chic Amish people estrada a lot no I saw a typical Paulette Madonna one dog nah oh I won't drown it you're trying to spoon first you're trying to swing but I don't know if I could do the spleen I'll take a bite very good actually yeah very good this is a singing classic I like to pretend that I like it last I made so many bunny Bonelli's I'd walk but if you come to Palermo you have to try this stuff when was the last time we were here seven seven a half years ago was it we were together well yeah I know there was a great picture me and you right in front of Santa fortunado it was my first time at the feast might as well you know outside the Arthur gets crazy confusion thank you but coming back to Sicily and seeing the original feast the real thing something else just back to our culture when we go back to vows she know it seems like everyone in the street is our family members somewhere another there's a vanilla or Cannizzaro somewhere everyone you did everyone's got the same name as me through Frank adjustable Frank yeah so I'm on the road from Palermo about scheana to go see the family it's been over a year since I've seen them both scheana is basically a small town right outside of Palermo it's about 2,000 people and it's kind of up in the mountains really old-school town I have a lot of my relatives here meant immense I'm really excited they're getting ready for the Santa for Samantha feast tonight the feast of Santa for Tanana is basically the feast of the patron saint of bow vecina most of my family is involved in it I'm excited to get there take part in the festivities we got some in the warners right here to visit the family at the XO gas station after many visits about scheana I've learned a few things go with the flow okay embrace the insanity and do whatever my cousin Biagio says there's a schedule and it's his okay well it's never really clear what's on the agenda when I visit my family one thing is guaranteed there will be food we ended up at lo Chalet for lunch a restaurant in town run by Vincenzo marisco it's also about his only pizzeria on the folo Tagami reports it Oh Braco [Laughter] she goes to go to stay in classic right here mmm like six different passes on the table right now I was counting on even nothing is like the tender plate that's come out this is the steak that readers give me about you know how indigenous everyday fashion quando minute kappa man chariot mansion and margherita pizza margherita pizza margherita see to trap its reproductive on all the different types a what Ragusa Capricciosa Margherita Napoli cover boy New York style no this is the good little this is this is how they used to make the pizza back here Jory's yeah the pillows yeah this is very much the original pizza about scheana it's very very good you gonna show me how to make this later I can't wait all right so what's the classic pizza here in Bali Xin I get anything and the one that we try today what we're doing is the speciality of this pounds all times people spit boys make a little doll right pull and Jovi's okay grated cheese and tomatoes a scallions miss kinzey here's a beautiful sky and that's the grated cheese okay stand over here and that's Tomatoes you cook tomatoes who are jobless in onions so this is cooked down it's like a little sauce tomatoes and onions and then everything else just gets sprinkled on side so we start off like that how long I've been making pizza I started in New York when I was 13 I'm 63 years old lot of years huh I started a Unitarian Church area 50 Street yeah I'm from Bowers you know now I was born here but I grew up in New York Brooklyn we're very cheese we're choosing I put a lot on design Wow look at that what's up well I agree no you can't be cheap right you gotta put it on same thing with the scallions no a lot you know cool couple on Joey's not a lot but be stronger than that last I'm going to put olive oil like that hey hey girl I think 120 miles is not rolling backwards while away this is the wild oregano robbery beautiful Wow this loving this Russian man yeah check it out drunky it looks good very least John Oh take it easy take it easy odda I like this pizza with that wound we got to do one of these in Brooklyn about scheana pizza Modena pizza - Your Honor it's Al's vigil in a vote for me it's not for him Paula Murphy John very classic pecorino on top adds a really nice light flavor to it Wow how's it going early summer see I just learned about a pizza I never knew before and it's from my hometown put that on there so we're on the main street of the feast center for Tanaka everyone's getting ready for the same to come out and we're all excited classic traditional cool today with me Raju has been a part of the official feast committee for the past 28 years and he knows everything about the story of Santa porta not okay una Sirella una Monica Seles on yatta kg meter evasion aroma as disabled una Thomas and Sonoma which are scripto Fortuna veramente Dolorosa do know Marty Romana a la evolute Antonio a quest a Monica the bow Gina Santa fortunado Avenida nano scope is a winner Laura named elicitation terrain de la Dupre she is devotion says oh no / TT and re aroma khun samee taro I'm gonna print the requestor alsa the west's and let me sit on a Gazzetta dello gank or annoy a be AMA Ellen reported above she at one moment when each other but no it cool to this endeavor to nada a penguin Jaco de persona 2 tallis a Chilean kd4 it's an event about the photons occurred in Morocco Lisa's debajo de vaudrec itches amanada manga default is an opera devotee most of the work all right it's about 15 minutes until the Saint comes out the streets are really starting to fill up right now it's kind of madness so the same comes out of the kool-aid Joe of the church then it gets marched up the street and then this a continues out around the town back into the other church on the other side of it [Applause] [Music] [Music] the after a long day and night in bhau's Sheena I was on the hunt for a parliament on Oh breakfast ah spin Choni and lucky for me it's not hard to find just listen carefully for the sounds of the spin Shannara a spin Shani vendor voice pin Shawn Aragon Cristobal Shivaji's flood that caused a foursome markula fabrica when the least again no mo array is I'm gonna be English in a convention below screen shown in that demo shall be vested a lot in the unit area da most of us in mentem isn't a jet or philosophy Nova care jae-hoon at was a rock top wall shown in each parameter necessary ilocanos hello Roman Joe voluntary do a trap 8c will I get C Luigi drives around Palermo rain or shine stopping for customers who wave him down we're setting up on the street where his regulars know where to find him Sonny Bono and Jared are Luigi there and our very own Adam and Johnny pjp Kolya checked on humanity my true polymath on or gets pinched only by any means necessary even by bucket I think one spin show me please see when you take it and cut it up what are you doing under there chalk one unfolds no oh I see it's like a little a little dot oh wow beautiful little olive oil on top coming right up there it is delicious delicious the flavors of Palermo it's been showing in Sicily you get in a lot of different ways you could get it from Luigi here in the street you get it at a bakery a Palermo all around Palermo or if you're lucky enough you could even at someone's house homemade job you know salaphi know so when do you make something showing me every day tony is a regional style of focaccia a flatbread which historians believe was either originated by the Etruscans before the Roman Empire was formed or in ancient Greece and potentially influenced by middle eastern and northern African culinary traditions abundant oh yeah Bassanio my tera vaada Oliva wasted a sheep on like a judicata yada prima acetylase of Frigidaire a la una manera chewy ekkada in Florida a banner spin Tony grew to become a food of the people it utilized inexpensive ingredients like leftover dough bread crumbs made from stale bread and anchovies which were plentiful and could be eaten fresh or preserved and most likely when a large amount of Sicilians immigrated to America and the late 1800s and early 1900s they brought the tradition of spin Tony with and in New York it became classified as pizza it reminds me of the pizza my grandmother used to make for me in Bensonhurst and to this day it's a staple in Sicilian households mmm delicious the dough is really good it's nice and light and crispy any sauce is delicious not even my dad equation I'm going I'm doing my best I've been in Amman chili pizza all day long Sicilian food is hyper regionalized the kuda do name by oshina my town style of sfincione was completely different from what I had in Palermo and in Bulgaria a challenge is ten miles outside of the city they have their own special version I'm visiting Valenti and almost 200 year old pan oficio that is famous for their white skin Tony I stood up after Daniel Balint a German noon facial of opportunity patrimony in all of our midsole Travis odorless brain she's on integrate Perot like that origin again a total average Gianna they say quanto any question for no cuesta del millet acento trained to know wow quanta ponder angel why do you want to serve on Conan Morita la quinta general Shana questa pathologic see how many of these you sell a day would you say hey I'm back for a la Vega come on delicious it's the bread is nice and light why is this been shown a popular here and by area but unit elite Shawn I probably know that it's in a baguette aslo spoon shauna we took too long on over the birthplace of another rank yet but soon a given gonna go for the question no no Queen fatty LaBrie Marcos I have fun no loss pinch on it okay a piano piano civil Aragon de la pasta job busting someone who live in Libya now who got up too fast cuando la austin Jonah yo soon as it is shalini fellow to Cola ricotta cheese is this West atooma Western for Majorca ba da da prata Pecora this is something Jonah Bianca Bianca okay men Samantha come abriel telling someone put AA group of people apostasy Gaby no no no ha sido una rima not see the very in Peterhof tropica t no quick forget even t plenitude really to a material Herrmann ship - about that support this okay thank you allora questa a nice teddy Mallika condita Condell formaggio la Mallika Adela Mallika fresca are these products that you're getting from around here are they coming from Bulgaria las Tripoli cl4 majora mentor allah - may allah dakota teleport incinerate about scheana k problem posted over she saw no gemalto Campania a queen d leper Corazon mudra no goal area though she okay yeah mo conde alone okay java.util [Music] the real specialty here white spin Shoni it's only here in Bulgaria and of course coming from some of the best bakers around fifth generation gotcha without them see coming soon Alberto negative and the customer that requested the Weitzman Joni turned out to be none other than our driver Franco one of the best people I've ever met in Sicily Bronto Franco is either taking a call on his earpiece cleaning our van or eating a snack hungry and when it's too much I thought you're a farmer how often do you eat when Jennifer depend a rocket ship on de mallorca de volta la settimana the brain does she not robot is cholera Cota drivers not basically divert this trip to Sicily was extra special not only did I get to see my family and celebrate our town's patron saint I got to learn more about the pizza of where I'm from Viva Santa Fortunato and Viva spin Choni you

Channel: Munchies

Views: 2,076,124

Rating: 4.9251366 out of 5

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Id: fPHjX6p-RbQ

Length: 20min 38sec (1238 seconds)

Published: Wed May 02 2018

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[u/vballbub10]

Goodness if Frank Pinello is the coolest fucking guy. This series is amazing

[u/Samharis]

Haha i just watched this episode last night now I'm going to binge watch the whole season over the weekend.