Gino's Italy: Secrets of the South

Gino tours Bari, the capital of Puglia, by rickshaw, learning about the dialect and sampling some of the unusual street food and vegetables of this region. Stopping off in a rustic square in the old town, Gino meets a great-grandmother who teaches him an ancient way of making a semolina orecchiette (little ear shaped pasta) pasta without eggs, before sampling a street dish made with one of the first cereals cooked by humans, polenta. For his grand finale we find Gino on a rooftop where he prepares a dish unique to Bari, spaghetti all'assassina - a spicy spaghetti dish but cooked like a risotto - and it's a killer!