431: Victor Hazan and the Problem of Italian Wine

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🗓️ 29 September 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Victor Hazan wrote the book "Italian Wine", which was published in 1982. He also co-wrote several Italian cookbooks with his wife, the late Marcella Hazan.

Victor Hazan speaks about his lifelong search for authentic Italian ingredients and expressions, an ethusiasm he shared with his wife of many years, Marcella Hazan. Victor details the start of his wine writing career, and confesses why he left off writing his second book on Italian wine. He also provides portraits of some of the key vintners he met along his travels, such as Antonio Mastroberardino and Renato Ratti.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.1	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:06.1	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Victor. Victor Hazan on the show today, the author of Italian Wine, which is published in 1982.
0:29.3	Hello, sir, how are you?
0:30.5	I am very well, Liby, thank thank you and how are you?
0:33.0	Very nice to have you here today.
0:35.0	So you were born in the 1920s in Italy?
0:38.0	1938.
0:39.0	I was born in a town called Chizena, eight miles from the Adriatic.
0:45.0	When you were a boy, your parents moved to New York.
0:48.0	When I was 11, they moved to New York.
0:52.0	This was on the eve of the Second World War. My father
0:56.7	had a very flourishing business in Italy but after the anti-Jewish laws came out in Italy, he sensed that things were going to get a lot worse.
1:10.0	And he just unloaded everything he had, loaded us up on a nice ship, the wrecks, and brought us to New York as
1:20.0	Durs.
1:21.0	And what was your father employed in? He was a furier. He has a remarkable eye for
1:29.5	for quality. He was very bright and also very honest and this is unusual in his
1:37.8	particular field. He had an extraordinary ability to learn language.
1:44.6	He started working when he was a boy.
1:46.8	I don't think he went past the third or fourth year of grammar school.
1:51.2	But he could learn almost any language. He was born in Turkey,
1:55.4	then away from Turkey, one of the usual anti-Jewish reasons, and moved to Italy.
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