Gennaro Contaldo
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest is one of the UK’s most loved chefs, Gennaro Contaldo. A key player in bringing his native Italian cuisine to British shores over recent decades, Gennaro’s written over a dozen best-selling Italian cookbooks and is the mentor to his protege Jamie Oliver, who credits Gennaro with teaching him everything he knows about Italian cooking, and Gennaro calls him his sixth child. You’ll have seen on numerous TV shows with Jamie, on Saturday Kitchen and on Two Greedy
Italians, with the late great Antonio Carluccio.
This episode is a real love letter to Gennaro’s homeland of Italy, bringing to life with such passion destinations like the Amalfi coast, Puglia, Sicily and the Aeolian Islands. So, fasten your seatbelts, and let’s get started.
Destination Recap:
- Minori, Amalfi Coast, Italy
- Monte Gargano, Puglia, Italy
- Monte Sant'Angelo, Italy: Saint Michael's Cave
- Salina, Aeolian Islands, Sicily, Italy
- Catania, Sicily, Italy
- Stromboli, Aeolian Islands, Sicily, Italy
- Lipari, Aeolian Islands, Sicily, Italy
- Signum Hotel, Aeolian Islands, Sicily, Italy
- Naples, Italy
- India
Gennaro is an ambassador for Citalia and his latest recipe book Gennaro’s Limoni: Vibrant Italian recipes celebrating the lemon is out now.
With thanks to…
Clinique UK - Discover Clinique at World Duty Free today.
Citalia - Discover the real Italy with Citalia, the UK’s leading Italian holiday specialists
Villa D’Este Hotel - Experience one of Europe’s grandest hotels, on the shores of Lake Como in Italy, for its 150th season. Visit villadeste.com to find out more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your host, journalist Holly Rubinstein, and here each week I'll be speaking to a very special guest about the seven chapters in their life's travel diaries. |
| 0:20.2 | From their earliest childhood travel memory and the first place they fell in love with |
| 0:24.7 | to their hidden gem and what's at the top of their travel bucket list, |
| 0:28.9 | we'll be uncovering their adventures around the world |
| 0:31.5 | and the travel experiences and destinations that have shaped their lives. |
| 0:36.8 | So after a fantastic destination special mini-series which transported us to Singapore, |
| 0:42.8 | New Zealand and the Bahamas, we are kicking off Season 7's celebrity interviews today. |
| 0:47.8 | A full season of Wanderlust-inducing conversation is coming your way. |
| 0:52.3 | And today's guest is one of the UK's most love chefs, |
| 0:56.1 | Gennaro Cantaldo. A key player in bringing his native Italian cuisine to British shores over |
| 1:02.2 | recent decades. Gennaro's written over a dozen best-selling Italian cookbooks and is the mentor to his |
| 1:08.2 | protege, Jamie Oliver, who credits Gennaro with teaching him everything he knows about Italian cooking. |
| 1:14.4 | And Gennaro calls him his sixth child. |
| 1:17.4 | You'll have seen him on numerous TV shows with Jamie, on Saturday Kitchen, |
| 1:21.3 | and on two greedy Italians with the late great Antonio Carluccio. |
| 1:25.9 | This episode is a real love letter to Gennaro's homeland of Italy, bringing to life with |
| 1:31.3 | such passion, destinations like the Amalfi Coast, Puglia, Sicily and the Aeolian Islands. |
| 1:37.8 | So fasten your seatbelts. |
| 1:39.4 | Let's get started. |
| 1:47.7 | Janara. started. Janaro Contaldo, welcome to the Travel Diaries. |
| 1:50.9 | It is amazing to be sitting in front of you. |
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