Name: Assisi and Italian Country Charm
Uploaded: 2020-03-08T20:01:36.000Z
Duration: 25 min 2 s
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This time, we're celebrating the traditions

It's the heart of Italy! Thanks for joining us.

For me, the heart of Italy is Tuscany and Umbria.

from village intimacy to the grand and saintly.

We'll learn about -- and taste -- one of Tuscany's finest wines

before retracing the steps of St. Francis in Assisi.

we visit the wine regions around Montepulciano

to find your own sleepy, fortified village.

While tourists pack the more famous places,

little off-beat gems like this remain overlooked,

Hamlets like these originated as communities of farmers

who banded together on easily defensible hilltops

With today's tourism and relative affluence,

Many rural families still preserve their own meats

and enjoy firing up their wood-burning ovens

you can almost taste the Pecorino cheese,

made from the unpasteurized and, therefore,

Making cheese this way is labor-intensive

but for these folks, it's well worth the trouble.

To be sure we get the most out of our visit,

We're visiting the noble farm of the Zanda Family,

where Nicola raises a couple hundred pigs.

by people who care about traditional agriculture,

It's Italian justice -- We feed them, they feed us.

we move on to the prosciutto part of the farm.

Nicola artfully cures every part of the pig.

The hind legs are destined to become fine prosciutto.

He brushes on a coat of garlic and vinegar

Top-grade prosciutto is cured by hanging in a cool room

During the slow curing process, Nicola checks the progress,

employing a wooden needle and an expert nose.

And like any proud farmer, he invites us into his home --

not your everyday farmhouse -- for a memorable taste.

with only a little bit of travel -- 200 meters!

Nicola: 200 meters, but a lot of work. Rick: A lot of work!

Nicola: The ham is waiting about 12 months.

Nicola: Yeah. Rick: Nicola, three different meats.

Nicola: This is ham prosciutto; we have "soppressata" --

Rick: You like this? Nicola: Oh, I love it.

Rick: This is from the head of the beautiful pigs

Roberto: Try it! Try it! Nicola: It's the best part.

Roberto: I think he likes it. Rick: Mmm. Yeah!

and this is for the expert. Roberto: For the expert.

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Assisi and Italian Country Charm

ancient

poverty

expert

solitude