Season 1
7 episodes · 1994
1Umbria
Floyd takes a train ride through rolling landscapes, goes fishing at Lake Trasimeno and cooks up beef and mushrooms. Plus, he gets behind the wheel of a Ferrari.
2Tuscany
Floyd cooks a pigeon dish in a busy square, visits Sienna where he cooks a winter dish, and gets to stay in a castle converted to a hotel.
3Sicily
Floyd starts off on the west coast in Marsala, he visits and cooks a pizza from the salt fields south of Trapini, before heading to the island of Maretemo for a festival.
4Puglia
Floyd visits the pre-dawn fish auction in Molfetta and checks out the Romanesque cathedrals and Swabian castles built by Frederick II, the Norman conqueror.
5Liguria and Piedmont
Floyd takes a journey through Cinque Terre, where fishing villages nestle in the seaside cliffs on the Ligurian coast. He also goes to a chocolate factory.
6Calabria
Floyd joins the cheesemaker Gino, whilst he does the rounds of a handful of smallholdings in Marano, and then cooks up marinated wild boar.
7Emilia Romagna & Venicefinale
Floyd visits Bologna, the capital of Emilia, which is full of beautiful buildings, medieval towers and churches. Then it's onto the home of Parmesan cheese.