The Food of GENOVA (but no pesto allowed)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- The city of Genoa (excuse me, GENOVA) has been on my Italian travel bucket list for many years. Well, I finally made it and was all excited to pig out on the city's most famous food: pesto!
That is until Eva reminded me that Genova has an incredible cuisine that goes way beyond basil, and I accepted her challenge to go a day in Genova without eating pesto...
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What's another city you know of that's so famous for one food that the rest of its cuisine is undeservedly overshadowed?
Torino?!
Oaxaca! Yes, their moles are spectacular. But there are tlayudas, memelas, tételas, sopas de guías, caldos de piedra, champurrados, tejates, chapulines, barbacoas/consomés, enchiladas, carnes asada, pozoles . . . . to eat/drink!
@@Veleno999 Torino è incredibile!
Napoli
Bologna
As an Italian…. Liguria is one of the most underrated region of all Italy, and i’m not even born here or ever lived here…
I was travelling with my partner to Florence by bus, and the bus broke down in Genova. So we got out to look around… and decided to stay in Genova. What an amazing city! The food, people, history! Genova lives and breathes, it’s proud but so welcoming. There’s nowhere on earth like it. We now go back every year at least once. Genova is now written deep within our hearts and our history.
I understood the "Mamma Mia" hand gesture that Eva did while eating the foccassia and cappuccino even without the text. 😅
Italians really do communicate so much with hand gestures if you just pay attention and watch them enough. Love it! 🙌🏼
Honestly I'm sorry to write you a text. Your page posts and comments! They are so positive and amazing. Life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, and a heartfelt compliment. I'm not expecting a reply to this comment, but I will be so glad to get a response from you. Much love, Thank you, and have a blessed day!!
Damn guys, if we would have known we would have showed you around our city! Love from your n°1 fans from Genova ❤
L'ultima immagine del video mi ha fatto ricordare quanto mi raccontava un amico genovese. Il suo centro storico è il più grande d'Europa, ed ospita nei dei palazzi principeschi delle grandi famiglie il più grande numero di quadri di Rembrandt. Mi fece mangiare il Cappon magro.
E se mezza Argentina è di origine italiana, la maggior parte di questa è ligure.
non è il piu grosso d' Europa e una belinata e te lo dico da Genovese, il piu grosso credo sia Lisbona o Napoli come estensione
Hi guys. Remember that a few weeks ago I posted a long comment mentioning farinata and never seen you cooking it or sharing recipes yourselves? Well, this video is a great vindication and seeing you enjoying it so much makes me very happy. Now, make a show about it!
This was my post on June/02/24
Hi guys. I've been following you for years and I just searched your channel for "farinata", in case I missed an episode, and only this came up. How come you've never talked about "fainá or farinata" in your channel? You know, the one that's made with chickpea flour. I come from Uruguay and you might not know this but over half our population is from Italian background and the same happens also in Argentina. Our diet is a happy mix of Spanish and Italian foods. We eat more pasta per capita than anywhere in South America. Fainá is a very popular dish that ALL pizzerias there cook and sell along with pizzas. As a matter of fact, what we call "pizza a caballo" are slices of pizza stacked with fainá. Pizzerias there make fainá in special oven trays that are 1m across in diameter and the edges of the fainá come out thiner and very crispy (my mouth waters thinking about those edge portions...). I live in the States and you can barely find fainá outside clumps of Argentinian/Uruguayan populations, like NYC or DC. I make it myself at home once in a while in a skillet. The oven must be piping hot (450-500f) and must pre-heat the skillet and then transfer the batter and let it cook for 35-40mins. It is a very simple recipe that I would love you guys explore, especially because I know you will research its origins and varieties.
I love your channel, by the way, and you guys have a beautiful dynamic together.
All the best.
Luis
😉
Thank you for finally visiting/showcasing my city of Genova! Yes the farinata is amazing, with Gorgonzola is spectacular!
I went to Genova for the first time only a few years ago but had the incredible luck of being shown the city and the region by my oldest and best friend who not only was born there but is also a brilliant cook and foodie. Genova is indeed a gastronomic haven and a spectacular city to visit for its beautiful sites, history and architecture. Also, I would highly recommend a trip to Camogli and neighbouring Recco for the Focaccia al Formaggio. It's beyond words! .. but I agree with Eva, don't go there... LOL
My hometown! Very proud and excited to see you enjoying the food there! Pesto is delicious, but we are more than our pesto. Lol
Un bambino felice 😋
Ho guardato più e più volte com'è contento a mangiare la sua pasta al pesto ❤️
Another great video on Italian food! Super informative and hilarious watching Harper eat his pesto to Ave Maria! Love you guys!
Grazie. Genova was never on my list but went last year on the recommendation from a friend who was from there. Turned out to be a great place, Boccadasse also. Looking forward to going back
Grazieeee ragazzi, un video nella e sulla mia città ❤❤❤. Vi amooo
Honestly I'm sorry to write you a text. Your page posts and comments! They are so positive and amazing. Life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, and a heartfelt compliment. I'm not expecting a reply to this comment, but I will be so glad to get a response from you. Much love, Thank you, and have a blessed day!!
Visting Genoa today! Already had my cappuccino and focaccia for breakfast! ☕So happy to see this video before I got here. Thank you.
Harper, it will still take time,.... but... you are becoming more and more Italian,... Eva, incrediblile job, sei estupendo !!
Thanks for the tour of what to eat in Genova. We will have to add it to our list of places to visit in Italy. If this keeps up we will need a month for our trip next year!
Great, interesting video! I have been to Genoa as a guest to a shipping company and can testify that it is an amazing city with fantastic
food. What I remember best is this large, traditional, upscale restaurant in the centre where their claim to fame was magnificent MINESTRONE soup. Everybody ordered it as a lunch starter or as a main course. The other highlight was to be taken on a 15-20 minutes drive up in the hills where a restaurant served only mushroom dishes. It was in the fall and some of the dishes were raw mushrooms with olive oil only. Fantastic selection of Piemontes Barbera wines to give a perfect match. Of course, I got a jar with fresh pesto to bring home ❤
I'd like to see the dried fish recipe some time in the future, please.
Italia has so many places to visit, but it has always been to Genova that I most want to visit. Hugs , on your best video yet- from Portocalle.
This was one of your most interesting videos. This is also Italian food that I was unaware of, it’s good to learn new things. Thank you Eva and Harper once again.
Love is sharing the last piece of farinata!
I'm from a neighbouring Ligurian city (Savona), and here are a few more things about Genova!
- FABRIZIO DE ANDRÉ, one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) italian singers was born there! He's known in italy for writing such deep and meaningful lyrics, often accompanied by ligurian (or other) folk music, and his songs are even sometimes taught in school!
- Luca, the Pixar movie about sea monsters, takes place in a fictional town in Liguria (though not in Genova)
- England borrowed Genova's flag, St George's cross 🏴, to make the English flag (one of the crosses that creates the UK flag 🇬🇧)
- the stereotype in Italy goes that people from Genova (and Liguria overall) are stingy and dislike foreigners (where foreigner = anyone who's not Ligurian) 😂
Sorry just a little correction: England didn't borrow the "croce di San Giorgio", they paid Genova to have the privilege to fly it on their ships in order to be protected when sailing the Mediterranean sea, as at that time the Genoese fleet was the ruler of that area. And if I may add two things about Genova that are of particular interest for American people: Cristoforo Colombo was from Genova (you can still visit his house preserved in the city center) and the name of Blue Jeans comes from the sturdy blue denim trousers used by Genoese sailors (in french "bleu de Genes" - blue of Genoa), which were adopted and perfectioned by Americans.
@tpn3561 thanks 😊 to be fair I left Colombo out of the list because I know he might not be very well regarded lately ahah
We lived in Puglia in the town of San Viito airbase from 76-79. Watching your videos brings back memories of my childhood. I hadn’t seen an api until I saw one in your group one pot get together. Good stuff.
Everything you two eat looks so delicious. What an incredible life you both have created. The best of both worlds (old world + new world). ❤
My city by the bay. Yes don't come😂😂😂😂. I Love that city. I live an hour away by bus. I go at least 3 times a week. ❤️. Harper you are correct about the architecture in this beautiful city. It takes my breath away. It's gorgeous 😍 Thanks for posting your adventures ❤️
As a Teroni at heart I would only drive through Genoa (where Columbus - the founder or Native American day - was from) I assumed it was only about the basil genovese … thanks for this enlightenment
you guys should go to the radicchio festival in Treviso one year!!
Ciao ragazzi, sono d'accordo con Eva, la cucina di Genova è deliziosa. In vacanza in Liguria ho assaggiato le miglior torte salate di erbe d'Italia. Torte vegetariane. Poi, secondo me, il top della goduria è una specialità di una cittadina chiamata Recco...la famosa , goduriosa focaccia di Recco. Due strati di pasta sottile e dentro un tipo di stracchino ligure. È spettacolare, il formaggio un po' acido si scioglie ed esce sopra la sfoglia perché la sfoglia superiore viene tagliuzzata per farlo uscire . Da provare!
Grazie ragazzi per questo video sulla mia città, Eva la prossima volta passa al livello successivo, il vero genovese nel cappuccino puccia la focaccia con la cipolla ❤
Thank you both for taking me with you.
Love Genova ! Amazing food which you highlighted perfectly. The best Focaccia I have ever had in that area was the Focaccia di Recco col formaggio !
You two always make me hungry, laugh and want to go back to Italy..lol..you rock!!
I was just in Pavia last week playing a concert. We were so close!
Hello Eva&Harper..tutta L'Italia è bellissima,..Thank you for the wonderful video!!..alla prossima!..un abbraccio a tutti dalla Sicilia!..❤
Also in Turin (Torino) there are places where they make a strepitous farinata! In these place, the farinata is to eat before "pizza al tegamino", a typical Turin pizza style very very good!
Ventimiglia on the border with France is known for the Pisciadella, a local pizza very famous. Genoa is the birth place of Christopher Colombo.
Potted basil plants on every table in restaurants. Amazing.
My husband and I will be in Genoa (from Australia) in another week or two and we were planning to visit this little cafe. Unfortunately, it appears they're closed for the entire summer until Settembre.😢
This is my favourite video of yours thus far.
That focaccia looks quite yummy, though I can't drink coffee, so I'd have to just have it on it's own.
I’ve had something like that, but it’s from Spain. I cooked it. Chickpea flour. I used a cast iron skillet. I had forgotten about it.
Harper, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, we put a slice of farinatta on top of a pizza slice and have the best of both world at the same time, you should try it!
Italian cuisine is a marvel in every corner of the country....pesto is one of these...
I’m a 66 years old “Genoese”. No cappuccino in the traditional Genoese breakfast, that’s for kids and millennials. The traditional breakfast is focaccia and white wine. “Fügassa e vin giancu” in the local dialect. Lol
PS: and you haven’t tried the “fügassa cun’ e cioue”, focaccia with onions. And by the way, the focaccia is common and made all over the Ligurian coast, all the way down to Nice. Nice (the Italian name being Nizza), had been part of the Republic of Genoa territory since… ever. Giuseppe Garibaldi was born there. Garibaldi, Mameli (the Italian anthem author) and another Giuseppe: Mazzini, all from Genoa or its territory, are the three main funding fathers of the modern Italian nation. Check on Wikipedia who these guys were.
You guys should just do a video on Ava reacting to food she really loves. It's always the best part. I watch her reactions over and over. Those eyebrows say more than her mouth ever could.
Now I really want to go to Genova!
For all the coverage of Calabrian food,I don’t remember you covering Licorice?
Visiting my parents in Three Points Arizona which is 20 miles west of Tucson the next two weeks
Farinata à Genova, Socca à Nice, Cade à Toulon et Panisse à Marseille. Toute la Méditerranée mange le pois chiche !
Like Harper, I met my future wife in Italy, first near the Italian border in Lugano, and then near Genoa in Santa Margherita Ligure. She too was born in the south of Italy, in a small hill town in a valley in northwest Campania, a stone's throw from both Puglia and Genoa, but left with her parents when she was just two-years-old, to Canada. As pesto is not common where she was born, my future wife first tasted it that summer Santa Margherita Ligure and tried to makeup for its absence. Ironically, me as a native New Yorker with no Italian roots had made and eaten pesto, perhaps because growing up in and near NYC, I caught the curious culinary bug early. Still, back in 1989, when we met, I was close enough to the beginning of my culinary exploration that I had not yet begun to learn of the varied greatness produced by each Italian town, city and region. While I have remedied my deficit in the subsequent decades, both travelling across Italy (and with our kids), and reading at home, I have not been back yet to the Genoa region.
Look, no Italian knows how many dishes Italian municipalities (which are 8000) have managed to produce in history, a foreigner won't know for sure!
@@GDG-qq2oy One does not need to know every dish in every municipality (an impossible task) to gain an appreciation the varied greatness of food in Italy, and understanding of some of that variety, and a sense of what bonds them in common: a dependence on quality, local ingredients prepared simply so they shine (with some exceptions to that simplicity).
I LIVE for that hair!
Yaassss!
Che forte! Peccato non avervi incontrati!!!
Complimenti per il video.. vi seguo sempre
Un peccato che non pensate mai a venire in Sardegna….
Verremo!
Teach us how to make the stuffed mussels please! 😁😁
Ma forse Harper immaginava che la gente a Genova mangiasse pesto dalla mattina alla sera (colazione, pranzo e cena ….e anche magari come spuntino !). 😉 😀
😂😂😂
I need to go back and review Eva's walnut pesto recipe.
Recipe for Farinata please!!!
I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥mussels, anchovies (especially FRESH!), and rabbit!!!!! I wish Eva would have a segment on rabbit recipes. More and more Americans are overcoming the culinary scourge, "Bunny Syndrome", and appreciating the delicate taste of rabbit.
If you like rabbit.... Come to Piedmont.... We doing this in 200 ways 😂😂😂😂😂
You are welcome 🤗
An Italian former mountain trooper Alpini 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
@@falt.a7350 Alas, I am too poor!
Harper, where are you from in Maine?
I'm not from Genova, but I moved here a couple of month ago, so I don't know what is or isn't Genovese. Did you try Latte dolce, Panissa, focaccia al formaggio or pizzata?
In the restaurant, is basil just for decoration or are customers expected to help themselves with fresh basil? Anyway, that is a brilliant idea.
Eva, you can make out-of-this-world farinata, too ! However, the amount of olive oil in a delicious farinata made at home smokes up the kitchen and the whole house.
Can you recommend some typical genovese restaurants, 'old school', not modern touristic.
Everything Looks Scrumptious ❤
I've been almost crying for the entire video... I'm from Genova and I will go back to visit my parents and friends in one week, the very first thing I will do once landed will be putting a big slice of focaccia in my mouth!
This comment made me cry because I'm not from Italy but I've been away from home and all I wanted to do when I got back was stuff my face with locally made bread
Una bella slerfa di focaccia!
I think this, for me, ranks as your best video yet. It is wonderful to be a (small) part of the passion you both have for Eva's home and the cuisine in the whole Country. My husband and I just came home after 5 weeks in Italy. We have spent 9 weeks there in the past nine months. We have been travelling there for the past 17 years, as much as we can. As you can see, we just cannot get enough of it, the culture, the architecture and, of course, the food. And your face, Harper, upon finally getting your pesto pasta was wonderful to see. Pesto Heaven! Thanks to you both.
I love Eva’s appreciation of Italian culture and simple food. Her reaction is contagious ❤and I want to go to Genova this year
Ciao ragazzi, benvenuti nella mia citta'. Complimenti ad Eva per la conoscenza non solo del cibo genovese ma anche dei modi ed usi del capoluogo ligure🤗
I'm on the "I don't like anchovies" team but when I was in Liguria it was obviously a "must try". They were amazing and not at all what I was expecting, 100% must eat when in Liguria.
Try anchovie pizza and you will like it…..
I wish you had done this video before our visit to Genova 2 years ago. We really were only aware of its pesto history!! We'll have to go back. There is no question that the two of you make the best Italian food videos on UA-cam. Eva's deep knowledge and Harper's willingness to experiment and your enthusiasm really produce phenomenally engaging and informative videos. More power to you both. I think I have what could be a great idea. I know you compare Italian-American food to authentic Italian food. Is there any chance you can visit Argentina, with its very own Italian-Argentinian food and explore that angle? Did you know that pizza in Buenos Aires is served with slices of Farinata, because of its large Ligurian population? Also, their gelato is top notch! I think you'd love it!
Thank you Eva and Harper.. your appreciation of all things Italian and the way you express your experiences is a joy to be a part of. Thank you for taking me along as I truly appreciate seeing such places and foods with those who know all about them. ❤❤❤❤
Uno dei vostri video più belli. So che il vostro canale è orientato a un pubblico di americani che generalmente se pensano all'Italia immaginano Napoli, Roma, la Sicilia etc etc etc. Sarebbe bello quindi se faceste più video su città italiane del nord....Verona, Trieste e persino Bolzano. Complimenti per i vostri contenuti.
Yes, Verona!
Si, più tour al Nord ❤
Bologna.
i dont think anyone can understand how much flavour farinata has until you try it. it looks so simple and soft but once you start eating it builds and builds and you can't stop but to go for one more piece
Chickpeas (and thus, chickpea flower) are truly one of the best ingredients/foods you can find, in terms of flavor AND of health benefits. It's just wonderful.
@@David34981I think we need a tutorial in how to make farinata in a normal kitchen. Appeals to me as a celiac.
@@andrewplumb6544 my grandma does it all the time, it's quite simple! It's also true that she has a wood oven... Idk about a regular oven. should be good though!
You should try it with pepper and in top of pizza.
Hahahaha “Ave Maria” when the kid got his pesto!!
Marinaridley, I found it inappropriate and mocking.
I thought it was beautiful, and I enjoyed hearing it very much.
20:32 And then there are also people abroad who think that in Italy we only eat pasta and pizza ! 🤦🏻♂️ Unfortunately these are people who don't know the Italian cuisine !
I believe that no foreign tourists (with a few exceptions, of course) would order such a dish. Simply due to the fact that foreigners are not familiar with such Italian dishes. And then it may happen that many tourists in Genova or Milano order a Carbonara, because that's what they have in their minds, no matter what city they're in.
Tourists, especially American ones, have a conformist taste dictated by advertising, then they become enthusiastic about a plate of pasta with butter and cheese (pasta Alfredo) which before the arrival of tomatoes was the pasta dish of all Italian families.
I love Genova, I've had the pleasure of working at Fincantieri shipyard there while our ships were being built. I spent a lot of time there and it's amazing!
O belin! Bello vedervi a zena!!! And yes pls, don’t come…u know the Ligurian’s people ☠️🤣🤣
Thank you guys so much for giving my hometown its deserved shout out. Extra point for Eva for discouraging tourist at the end 😂 i foresti hanno rotto il belino! (not you guys, you are very welcome to come here every time you want). Also, thank you for showing Vico Palla, it's where me and my amore went for our first date 5 years ago ❤ w il pesto! 💚
At the end, when you realized your mistake and said "don't come!" you really got the authentic ligurian vibe 😂😂😂
Oh! che sorpresa. avrei voluto saperlo per incontrarvi!! Bravissima Eva per la focaccia nel latte e caffè 😂 e interessante - e condivisibile - l'osservazione di Harper: è vero che Genova sembra una città del sud trapiantata al nord!
I visited Genova for a few days this past November on a 20 day Italian solo trip. Amazing, beautiful and I can’t wait to go back. I went to Modo 21 and had the oven baked pesto lasagna. Mama Mia !!!! By far the best lasagna and top 3 dinners I’ve ever had in 48 years.
Honestly I'm sorry to write you a text. Your page posts and comments! They are so positive and amazing. Life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, and a heartfelt compliment. I'm not expecting a reply to this comment, but I will be so glad to get a response from you. Much love, Thank you, and have a blessed day!!
Jason Genova?
I was born and live in Genoa, thank you for this video and thank you for giving visibility to our typical dishes. And ,above all, thank you for showing the beauty of Genoa, which is perhaps less known than other Italian cities and absolutely deserves to be discovered ❤️
Ho visto Eva quasi commossa dopo la farinata 🤣 Grazie di cuore per questo bellissimo "premio" alla mia città. ❤
Che bello vedervi finalmente vicino alle mie zone!
Anyone can go out in the world and find Michelin Star restaurants to swoon over... but THANK YOU, Harper and Eva, for showing us that the simplest, most traditional things found in every place are the most wonderful! Grazie Molto.
I lived in Spigno Monferrato for many years; a small town North West of Genova just over the border in Piemonte. Of course everyone knew about the pesto of Genova but when we made the hour and a half drive to visit Genova it was always to seek out farinata and/or foccacia genovese.
This video honestly got timed perfectly; I'm heading to Genoa in a few weeks (currently studying in Perugia which is incredible) so I can't wait to try everything! Thanks so much guys!
Buon viaggio!
Grazie! Genova è bellissima, sono molto emozionato di andare là. Quali altri ristoranti a Genova sono buoni?
You finally went to Genova! I was there January 2024 and utterly fell in love with it.
After a breakfast like that, all I could think about till noon, would be lunch...
My Nonnu and Nonna where from Genova. My Nonna was an amazing cook. Thank you for sharing your adventures with us.
I visited with my mum Genova and surroundings for a couple of days on our trip by boat from Sydney to the Netherlands. I was nine at the time, this was in 1965 when such journeys were still possible. Genova was the home town of the ship, which only had 1 class for all, so you could roam the whole ship.
I remember not knowing what to do at the toilets, because they were just holes in the ground back then with positions for your feet.😳 I also saw my first castle and buildings far older than Australia had existed. So that blew my mind a bit. Still, it was an amazing visit that I remember to this day. Thank you for the video, there's a lot of 'new' stuff that I didn't see back then. I should try to make a visit again.
Paganini was from Genoa. I’ll say Genova when I am speaking Italian.
We have a place in Nizza (Nice) and your food-centric tour of Genoa was fantastic. The two cousin cities share some of the same foods. The farinata becomes socca (although maybe more crispy on the bottom, due to the huge copper pan and hot oven) and panissa (similar to the sicilian version) becomes panisse,
Love all of your videos, have learned a LOT and made some amazing meals. Having said that - you both just look "brighter" and happier and younger, etc. when you are in Italy, the difference is very noticeable, hope to visit myself one day. Keep being just you both!!!
Thanks for sharing Genova with us. ❤
That was hilarious. I have headphones in, so from my father's perspective, I just started singing Italian gibberish out of nowhere. "Fratelli d'Italia, l'Italia se desda. Del helmo di Scipio, se cinta la testa!"
I've travelled from Milan to Genova by train, it is really beautiful and picturesque way to get there (except the train station areas...) :)
Watching this while making pesto from my garden herbs is heavenly. Thank you!
Bravo!
I don't know how Italians can stay slim with all the amazing food, especially breads! I would love to join one of your tours to experience Italy guided by you two. Eva knows all the regions and their specialites!! You are great tour guides I'm sure!
I haven't managed to stay fit, I grow fat, too much love and attachment to Pasta.🇮🇹
Quantity makes the poison. 😉