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This Week's Guest:
Antonio Carluccio
6 July 2008
Repeated
11 July 2008 |
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Antonio's Choice |
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Photo by Alistair Hendy
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the cook Antonio Carluccio.
He's been hailed as perhaps the best Italian cook in Britain today and the flavours and methods he holds dear are the ones he learnt at his mother's knee, growing up in Northern Italy.
The food he ate then was high quality, locally produced and carefully prepared - now, that's every chefs mantra, but when he arrived in Britain in the 1970s it was ground-breaking.
Within a few years he'd taken over the Neal Street Restaurant in London's Covent Garden and turned it into an institution and now his highly successful cafes are scattered throughout Britain.
For him preparing and cooking food is a sensual act, so perhaps it's no surprise that in his spare time he whittles wood into intricately-patterned walking sticks and tries his hand at clay modelling too. It's all part of a life that, at its best, is a tactile, sensual experience. |
1. The theme from the film Il Postino
Performer The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra with Jill Washington
Composer Louis Bacalov
CD Title The European Film Music Collection
Track CD 3 Track13
Label Silva Screen Records Ltd
Rec No SILCD1207
2. The opening of Vltava, from Smetana’s Ma Vlast
Performer Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Composer Bedrich Smetana
CD Title Smetana: Ma Vlast
Track 2
Label Supraphon
Rec No 1118962
3. The opening of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1
Performer Vladimir Ashkenazy
Composer Tchaikovsky
CD Title Ashkenazy/Lso/Maazel/Zinman: Piano Concerto’s by Tchaikovsky & Chopin
Track 1
Label Decca
Rec No 4177502
4. Es steht ein alter Nussbaum – There Stands an Old Nut
Tree Performer Paul Horbiger
Composer Emmerich Zillner – J Hochmuth-Hans Werner
CD Title Paul Horbiger: Gala Der Stars
Track 14
Label LITE SPECIAL
Rec No 73369
5. Part of the Overture to The Thieving Magpie
Performer Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan
Composer Gioacchino Rossini
CD Title Rossini & Verdi: Overtures - Karajan
Track 3
Label Deutsche Grammophon
Rec No 4232182
6. Yesterday
Performer The Beatles
Composer Lennon &McCartney
CD Title The Beatles 1962-1966
Track CD1 Track 13
Label EMI
Records Rec No CDPCSP717
7. Dance of the Knights from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet
Performer Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg conducted by Valery Gergiev
Composer Sergei Prokofiev
CD Title Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet
Track CD 1 Track 12
Label Philips
Rec No 4647262
8. The Finale to The Carnival of the Animals
Performer London Sinfonietta
Composer Saint-Saëns
CD Title Classsics For Children
Track 28
Label Decca
Rec No 4585952
Record: The Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns
Book: The Philip Pullman trilogy: His Dark Materials
Luxury: White truffles
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