Can we appreciate Eva finding the energy to give a full explanation, in English, about the Moka, *before* having breakfast? It was a huge effort for someone who is "not a morning person".
Actually I find Eva sometime a little bit too snob towards American way of approaching cooking in general. After all, how many Italians ACTUALLY prepare pasta starting form flour as a usual practice? Italian towns are or are not full of questionable Japanese restaurants and horrible kebab huts?
@@paolosardi67 She might be skittish about american cuisine but the exaggerate most of their dishes. Don't get me wrong, when it's their local cuisine and it's cooked the way It Is intented american cuisine Is great! On anorher note you are right about how Italy Is becaming more more "diverse" and sometimes less traditional, but trust me when I Say that MOST Italians are still prone to italian cuisine.
@@paolosardi67 Eva: "Grazie!" (Actually I find Eva sometime a little bit too snob towards American way of approaching cooking in general.)YOU FIND WHAT?????? About 4 million Italians immigrated to America from 1880 to 1920. The majority (about 85 percent) came from southern Italy, where political and economic circumstances left the region extremely impoverished, so it would be the cuisines of Sicily, Calabria, Campania, Abruzzi and Molise (and not Venice) that would make their mark in the United States. After all, Americans are messing with their grandma’s grandma’s grandma’s recipes. What passes as “Italian” in the US has been an exercise in patience for ITALIANS!
@@paolosardi67 Well, I am glad to say that the BEST Kebab, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese food I have had has been here in Italy! And I lived ALL OVER THE USA! I SAY good for Italia to expand, FINALLY. It is up to Italians to preserve their heritage, and it CAN be done while experiencing other cultures.
“Harper, I have, always, an idea for your pasta, so don’t worry.” - the most loving words I have ever heard from one person to the other. Blessings and happiness to you both. 💚🤍❤️
Yup! I’m in my 30’s and have yet to hear such loving words from any of the females I’ve dated here in America. It’s usually, “so what are we doing for dinner?”...her/them: “I don’t know”....🙄
It's really heartwarming for us Italians to see Harper enveloped in the Italian lifestyle. Harper, for us you are an honorary Italian citizen!!! We love you. You are as much valuable to this channel as Eva. Eva provides her cooking skill but, at the same time, this channel wouldn't be the same without you! We love you!
I can't believe how similar some traditions we mexicans inherited from the spaniards, are with those italians. Italia is the heart of the latin world. I'm amazed with Eva's town. Such a beautiful place. Saludos!
Nono you mean how italians inherited traditions from MEXICO! They didnt have chilies or tomatoes prior to 1500 ad! Those are native to meso america! Thats why Mexicans use a lot of tomatoes and chiles like salsas for dishes! Maybe in North mexico its more european but in south its accually very native. Problably they wouldnt be able to tell the difference because the names are europeanised
@@iseytheteethsnake6290 good point, actually a question I have is why do southern italians like to eat spicy meals. Wondering if there was some influence from Mexico to that part of Italy. I know we gave them the tomato, quite characteristic of their cuisine. We also give to the world the avocado, chocolate and vanilla.
Well, Spain and Italy were both part of the same giant country for more than 600 years. The roots are the same. In the columbian exchange, Europeans got tomatoes, potatoes, corn, chocolate, vanilla, all beans (other than ceci and fava), chiles, turkeys, other stuff I forgot. Mexicans got pork and beer...
@@iseytheteethsnake6290 when tomatoes, peppers and chilli first came to Italy people nearly didn't now what to do with that, so they improvised and tried ending up creating what we now call tradition and traditional food; not only this but Italians selected and bred these plants generating typical local varieties so much so that initially when they arrived in Italy tomatoes were only yellow hence the italian name "pomo-doro" which translates into "golden fruit"
I love that this channel has turned into a documentary/reality tv show instead of a purely instructional video as it used to be. Harper and Eva are very much worth watching compared to all the crappy tv content these days. Genuine and always a cultural education! Thank you both for the content. Keep em coming!
Please hurry with that cook book ,I'm 100 percent Italian and my family is from Calabria, we're in New York and Arizona now and we can't wait for Eva's cook book
Rich Macero, I’m right behind you in line. I can’t wait to have her recipes in hard copy. Between Eva’s recipes and Harper’s photography, it’s gonna be a cookbook that will be on my coffee table before it goes to the kitchen. I just know it’s gonna be a work of art.
@@PastaGrammar Not soon enough! My family is from Piedmont and the episode where Ava made Bagna Cauda brought tears to my eyes. It was a New Years staple growing up. The trick is to let your vegetables soften in the "hot bath" for a minute and catch any drippings with a crusty bread.
I'm 100% with Eva. My partner also has been drinking that protein sludge every morning for 5 years now and through the testament of time....I'm still disgusted.
That caught my attention too, but I think it was just an unintentional edit. Most likely minutes would've passed between Harper asking that and Eva talking about olive trees.
Dasa, Calabria, from the Greek word for forest, dasos. Greek was spoken in this village until the mid-16th century. The Greeks and their culture were absorbed by Roman Catholicism, but the Greek light still lives on through Eva.
My best friend when I was a little girl, her mom was Italian and she had two kitchens as well, with a beautiful canning cellar, she called it, with rock pebbles as the floor and just wooden shelves meticulously filled with everything you can imagine that could be canned. I was mesmerized with it all! Love to both of you and yours, STAY WELL!
I love you so much, guys! I love the way Eva speaks english, so simple and fluent, and I'm amazed by the passion she puts in cooking and tasting food! And Harper is the perfect half of the couple, we wiewers couldn't do without his comments to Eva's cooking, and his face expressions full of wonder when he tastes Eva's works of art!! Go on like this and you'll become tv stars!!!!
I had to chuckle a bit, growing up all my Italian friends and family had 2 kitchens. I remember a lunch in Italy ... Dandelion salad, homemade cold cut meats, and Parmesan cheese chunks. Sometimes rabbit would replace the cold cuts. Nonna would sauté the rabbit in olive oil then add rosemary, loads of garlic, and white wine. Nonna was from Lake Como. Nonno was born in Pescara.
loads of garlic? It’s always been my impression that Italians doesn’ t use that much garlic. Maybe your nonna was a bit different and used more than most? Do you think so? 🤗
I thought two kitchens was the normal thang growin’ up in Sri-Lankan, until I came to Australia 😅 Mum’s home that she built over here a few years ago, thankfully has two kitchens and toilets 🚽 with BIDETS!!! 🥰🤗😅🥰🤗😅
@@lottatroublemaker6130 I usually depends on the particular dish. The chicken dish I mentioned above I enjoyed in various regions of Italy. I was born in Pescara, but when I was young, I had a girlfriend from Reggio Calabria and her mother made it with loads of garlic. They would leave the cloves whole. Again, just a particular recipe.
@@robstlace4599 The typical rural Tuscan way my family makes "brick chicken" is with tons of rosemary and loads of garlic in whole cloves. Some of the garlic inevitably gets burnt. (all the youtube recipes are wrong) Rabbit would sometimes be cooked the same way.
@@gregmuon Yes, very similar recipe, minus the cloves. They would use plenty of crushed black pepper. After browning the rabbit in olive oil they would add the wine, garlic, and lots of fresh rosemary. When the wine cooked down to nothing, the rabbit was ready.
Your channel is pure happiness. Not only are you a very nice duo, but you have a great way of transmitting Italian culinary culture. There are so many UA-camrs who massacre this heritage every day ;) thanks and long live to your channel !
As you can see, in Italy we always have something to do, also during the confination: cooking!!!! What a wonderful thing to find oranges directly on the trees
I grew up in south San Francisco,at that time the town was mostly Italian. Everyone had two kitchens. In the basement of our house we had the second kitchen where all the neighbor women women would make pasta,this is where I learned to make pasta.my wonderful grandfather also made his own wine in the basement,there was a huge wine press and so many barrels for the wine! Angelo my grandfather was a Shepard in the Italian alps so we also ate a lot of polenta.the men in the family would use the kitchen in the basement to pluck the ducks and pheasants and my mother and her sisters would make a stew of the foul and serve it with polenta and mozzarella.those days are gone,but you and Harper have brought back all those memories of a wonderful Italian childhood.thank you both for keeping up the tradition of making the most wonderful food in the world!
That's just like my Portuguese immigrant family. The basement was used for making the wine and preparing the chickens and especially pig. Every year in during the fall they would take a pig into the basement and use every part of it for food. Blood sausages, spiced sausages, pork rinds, cured meats. They would also pickle vegetables. No food went to waste
3:01 Eva's instant reaction to Harper's breakfast automatically had me click that like button! The rest of the video didn't disappoint either. The rest of the meals looked amazing.
Living in Munich, which is often called Italy's northernmost city, I always thought that the kind of Italian food we can get here at restaurants or cook for ourselves is the real deal. After having watched several videos, it begins to dawn on me that I might not be quite correct. Much of what I eat here might be "Italian style cooking" at best. Anyway, I keep learning from your videos almost every day. Keep these videos coming! :)
I have never heard Munich called italy’s northernmost city! But having been to both places that makes a lot of sense. Munich is truly one of the most beautiful and warm city’s I have ever been to. Really reminiscent of Italy
@@luked4043, it is called that for several reasons. First, many buildings were built by Italian architects that have been hired from South of the Alps. In fact, Munich's first opera house was built on the insistence of the Italian wife of some elector back in the 1650s. From 1810 on, Turin chocolatier Luigi Tambosi opened his famous café in Munich -- and it's still in business! In 1890, the first Italian restaurant, the Osteria Bavaria (now Osteria Italiana) opened in Munich's university quarter in Schelling Street. Of course many more followed after WW2, when many Italians were hired to help rebuild Germany after the war. Of course these workers did not only enrich the culinary scene, but also added more than just a pinch of the oft-quoted "dolce vita". Also, many Munich artists, musicians, writers, and other cultural figures drew their inspiration from Italy. That is probably the most important reason for Munich's nickname, because it is culture that forms the way of life of a city most significantly. I don't know if I would love my city as much as I do without all those Italian influences. Maybe it would be just another Bavarian provincial town. Which would be okay I guess, but I like my Italian Munich better. :)
@@jensmoellenhoff a magical place it has become. I look forward to visiting it again and having a bier in the englischer garten. Danke für die erklärung und ich wünsche dir ein schöne Woche!
Just wanted to let you know how much I have enjoyed watching your videos. Being a nurse and working very hard during this pandemic, your videos offer a little escape time and always make me smile! Love you both! Thank you for all you do 😊
So good to see my great grandma's province. She was from Zaccanopoli, an hour away from Dasà. She came to Argentina with just 14 years of age, and not knowing a single word of Spanish.
I love everything about this video. The food that is so simple and so good. A hike up a mountain after breakfast with the one you love. Olive trees, fresh oranges. I took a deep breath just watching. A tour of a town steeped in wisdom: it was either the Madonna who kept the people safe from the plague or their belief in her, it doesn't really matter which, they were safe. The community getting together to wash clothes, and in ancient times make their grain. Maybe 'rona is telling us this: enjoy the simple pleasures, this is the way life should be. Eva, you are an artist whose medium is life and food; Harper, you are an artist whose medium is life and storytelling.
Oooooh ecco, finalmente qualcuno che inzuppa i biscotti nell'acqua! Non potete immaginare quante volte mi hanno preso per il culo per sta cosa. Non sono solo! Btw ...che belli quei carciofi! :O
Anch'io lo faccio a volte... Vai tranqui... Buoni i carciofi, ma anche la spigola in crosta di sale è fantastica! Io di solito così, cucino l'orata. Adoroooo
I'd like to see Eva make her version of focaccia bread. I've fallen down the italian cooking youtube hole and love watching the different versions. I love your content! Thanks for posting.
We were supposed to go back and visit Italy last year, but couldn't. This year is not looking good either. Your adventures there make me miss it even more. I can't wait to go back!!!
My Mom lived with an Italian family when she was a teenager while she went to Catholic boarding school. She told me about the 2 kitchens. One on the main floor and one in the basement.
Eva! Your chicken recipe from the favorite American ingredients video is a regular dinner for us now. Delicious and we don’t know what you called it but we call it “Eva’s Delicious Chicken!” Thank you!
LOL! Italians always have two kitchens! Both my grandmother and my mother had a basement kitchen in their homes. I'm trying to convince my husband we need a kitchen in our basement. He thinks we should do an outdoor kitchen. I said we could do that too! I would totally buy Ava and Harper's cookbook. Brings back memories of my childhood from Piedmont to Chicago.
I recently discovered your channel and am IN LOVE! Not only are you wonderful, but I adore and respect the cultural exchanges and sharing. Eva, your cooking is everything I hope to achieve. Thank you for the inspiration to be a better and more creative cook.
The Met. Just brought back the feelings of anticipation and excitement from back then in 2014. I wish you every encouragement in keeping your passion alive and transmitting that to the world....it needs it!Xx
Love this! You showed us more than just your kitchen! And yet there was plenty of authentic Italian food too! The best! I hope you can take us ALL over Italy in the future!
Every real Italian home has 2 kitchens!! We had a downstairs kitchen for everyday meals. The upstairs kitchen was for holidays or more formal dinner parties! LOL I love the way Harper’s eyes roll to the back of his head when trying a new dish... quickly followed by a loving look over at Eva 🥰
fate veramente dei bei video: buon contenuto, buona struttura, buon editing, buon intrattenimento.. vi meritereste molto di più di quello che avete già! avete un format molto originale e valido a mio parere. complimenti, keep it up!
Today it is less common, but in northern Italy, up to 30/40 years ago, every farmer who had grapes prepared his own grappa by distilling the marc. It was illegal and could be dangerous because the distillate originally contained toxic concentration of methanol. Thus it was said that to make a good grappa one had to throw away the head and tail and keep only the heart.
@@MrMalagutiAle Grappa! Exactly. My cousin once removed had a still. I still remember it, next to the donkey, about 30 years ago. He knew well to discard the head and the tail.
Thank you for taking us along on your trip to Italy! Italy is definitely high on my list of places to visit eventually. It looks like one of the most beautiful places on earth, with some of the best food!
I had always wondered how both Harper and especially Eva could be so skinny eating all that stuff....They eat very little actually, just really high quality stuff.
As an Italian who loves to cook I get asked the same question all the time - - the answer is good food, nutritious and well-prepared, is satisfying. And so one does not eat endlessly looking for a satisfaction that eludes us. Also notice the scant use of sugar and the absence of any highly processed food.
Outside of America people use fresher foods. Straight from gardens. Its more nutritious and safer than the food we eat here in America. Our food is genetically modified, a lot of pesticides are used, and the cooking uses so much salt, sugar, and fat. And then there's the awful packaged, canned, frozen, and fast food. Whenever I would go back to my home country in Europe I would lose 10 or 20 pounds, and whenever my relatives would visit the states they would gain 10 or 20 pounds.
My husband and I tried making homemade pasta a while ago, but we forgot to add one extra egg “for god” like Eva instructed. Didn’t quite turn out as hoped, so we won’t forget next time! :) love the videos and the recipes!
Hey ! No wonder I like Evas recipes so much! my heritage is from Serra...right next to Dasa!! I remember when I was a kid, also the women washing the laundry in the town laundry area of Serra San Bruno. Made perfect sense.. wish it was still going.. miss it so much
I also married into a Latin family. Its incredible the weight of importance they put on their food. Whatever part of the day it is, they will be discussing and planning what to eat at the next meal, even while eating the present one. But no complaints from me! Best food in the world, even though simple most of the time.
Italians make everything look beautiful , even the old mill and place to wash clothes 😍😍😍😍 , truth be told I only knew cooking and shopping for vegetables is so pleasurable only after seeing french and Italian people 🥰 love from india
My parents are originally from Dasa and I was born in Australia. It was great seeing Dasa again haven’t been there in years especially I fume my mother always told me stories of her washing the clothes. Loved seeing the olives trees which my grandfather owned a lot of them. Thanks for the memories and hope One day I will see you in Dasa
Eva, your hometown is beautiful!! I really enjoyed you showing us where the washing used to be done, and the community grain mill. And the image of the blessed virgin, along with the history behind it. Thank you guys for sharing this lovely town with us! I love it ♥️💕🤗
Thank you for letting us all in to your lives. It’s extremely wonderful to see a day in your lives. I hope you had an amazing time in Italy. I have many relatives I will (hopefully) be visiting soon in Acri.
This is one of my favorite videos from you guys. It's nice to see you out of the kitchen, showing us moments of your life, while later we still see the cooking happening. Please do more where you go out in the town or visit other places, whole you are in Italy.
A little back story; I do not pay for content like movies or shows. Not when I can get them free online. So, I find it is important to mention that I would gladly pay to watch a show with you two touring around italy, being normal, hungry people. The juxtaposition between you guys is very enjoyable. Keep it up!
Yes, please do a cookbook. I’m allergic to dairy protein, so I will have to do things without cheese or find a substitute, but this 25% Italian lady would love to start cooking some more authentic Italian recipes.
Great seeing the city and don’t push mama Rosa to be on camera. Reminds me of my grandmothers village in Spain. Boveda was the town in Galicia. Hello to her Dad. Once a week not enough.
che poi in realta quel brand di proteine è il top, ma non è sostitutivo di un pasto, è solo un aiuto ad un certo tipo di allenamento, che nel video e nella loro giornata non c'è, anche se loro in realtà in Usa sono fissati di palestra e body building e si vede
@@tiffanyhackerspace8377 knowing English language you can go anywhere in the world, otherwise Italian language is useful just in Italy or for your own pleasure 😉 ...said that, to improve themselves in something is always good 😊👍🏻
When Eva turned her head at Harper shaking that protein shake had me on the floor laughing. I feel you Eva. My husband eats cereal so quickly and loud, I just can’t. Love your videos!
Wow thank you Eva for showing us your hometown. I just recently discovered your channel and can't wait to cook Eva's pasta sauce. :-).Harper you better be buying Eva whatever she likes for cooking all those amazing dinners lol
I’m so glad I found your channel, so informative and fun! Ava, taught me the right way to use garlic in Italian cooking, and I learn something new with every video! Thank you for everything!
Can we appreciate Eva finding the energy to give a full explanation, in English, about the Moka, *before* having breakfast? It was a huge effort for someone who is "not a morning person".
Harper: "Brava"
Eva: "Grazie!"
Harper: "Good job!"
Eva: "I know..."
The Essence of italian pride in our cooking skills 🤣
Actually I find Eva sometime a little bit too snob towards American way of approaching cooking in general. After all, how many Italians ACTUALLY prepare pasta starting form flour as a usual practice? Italian towns are or are not full of questionable Japanese restaurants and horrible kebab huts?
@@paolosardi67 She might be skittish about american cuisine but the exaggerate most of their dishes. Don't get me wrong, when it's their local cuisine and it's cooked the way It Is intented american cuisine Is great! On anorher note you are right about how Italy Is becaming more more "diverse" and sometimes less traditional, but trust me when I Say that MOST Italians are still prone to italian cuisine.
@@paolosardi67 Eva: "Grazie!"
(Actually I find Eva sometime a little bit too snob towards American way of approaching cooking in general.)YOU FIND WHAT??????
About 4 million Italians immigrated to America from 1880 to 1920. The majority (about 85 percent) came from southern Italy, where political and economic circumstances left the region extremely impoverished, so it would be the cuisines of Sicily, Calabria, Campania, Abruzzi and Molise (and not Venice) that would make their mark in the United States.
After all, Americans are messing with their grandma’s grandma’s grandma’s recipes.
What passes as “Italian” in the US has been an exercise in patience for ITALIANS!
@@paolosardi67 Well, I am glad to say that the BEST Kebab, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese food I have had has been here in Italy! And I lived ALL OVER THE USA! I SAY good for Italia to expand, FINALLY. It is up to Italians to preserve their heritage, and it CAN be done while experiencing other cultures.
Hahaha that was hilarious!!
Eva's morning look was a whole mood that I felt deep in my soul. Me every morning.
I feel you.
I don' wanna.
To early.
Go away.
Same. I snooze standing up in my shower.
That look is very much the italian look in these pandemic days.
I'm Italian. Not morning person. Noooo
You shouldn't talk to Eva, or to people in general, before they had at least a cup of coffee :-D
Eva is my new favorite person. Iconic food, iconic hair, iconic expressions, a true original.
❤️❤️❤️❤️
“Harper, I have, always, an idea for your pasta, so don’t worry.” - the most loving words I have ever heard from one person to the other. Blessings and happiness to you both.
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Great comment, supported by Eva making a dish starting with whole, fresh artichokes!
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Yup! I’m in my 30’s and have yet to hear such loving words from any of the females I’ve dated here in America. It’s usually, “so what are we doing for dinner?”...her/them: “I don’t know”....🙄
That’s because Eva is a woman who “knows what to do“! I absolutely love this quality in a person!
It's really heartwarming for us Italians to see Harper enveloped in the Italian lifestyle. Harper, for us you are an honorary Italian citizen!!! We love you. You are as much valuable to this channel as Eva. Eva provides her cooking skill but, at the same time, this channel wouldn't be the same without you! We love you!
I can't believe how similar some traditions we mexicans inherited from the spaniards, are with those italians. Italia is the heart of the latin world. I'm amazed with Eva's town. Such a beautiful place. Saludos!
Nono you mean how italians inherited traditions from MEXICO! They didnt have chilies or tomatoes prior to 1500 ad! Those are native to meso america! Thats why Mexicans use a lot of tomatoes and chiles like salsas for dishes! Maybe in North mexico its more european but in south its accually very native. Problably they wouldnt be able to tell the difference because the names are europeanised
@@iseytheteethsnake6290 good point, actually a question I have is why do southern italians like to eat spicy meals. Wondering if there was some influence from Mexico to that part of Italy. I know we gave them the tomato, quite characteristic of their cuisine. We also give to the world the avocado, chocolate and vanilla.
Well, Spain and Italy were both part of the same giant country for more than 600 years. The roots are the same.
In the columbian exchange, Europeans got tomatoes, potatoes, corn, chocolate, vanilla, all beans (other than ceci and fava), chiles, turkeys, other stuff I forgot. Mexicans got pork and beer...
@@iseytheteethsnake6290 tomatoes and chiles are traditions? 😂
@@iseytheteethsnake6290 when tomatoes, peppers and chilli first came to Italy people nearly didn't now what to do with that, so they improvised and tried ending up creating what we now call tradition and traditional food; not only this but Italians selected and bred these plants generating typical local varieties so much so that initially when they arrived in Italy tomatoes were only yellow hence the italian name "pomo-doro" which translates into "golden fruit"
I am an American living here in Italy living the good life with this beautiful food and friendly people.
How do you live there???
@@cookiemonster2577 like every people in the world, sleeping, eating and breathing
@@irenecarrillo6750 hi. I'm Carrillo too. Wondering where you from?
Your comment; hilarious!
@@Sunsea-er4nf italy, but my father is from equador, that's why my surname is carrillo
@@irenecarrillo6750 Ecuador*
You really hit the jackpot with Eva. I love how supportive you two interact.
I love that this channel has turned into a documentary/reality tv show instead of a purely instructional video as it used to be. Harper and Eva are very much worth watching compared to all the crappy tv content these days. Genuine and always a cultural education! Thank you both for the content. Keep em coming!
Please hurry with that cook book ,I'm 100 percent Italian and my family is from Calabria, we're in New York and Arizona now and we can't wait for Eva's cook book
Rich Macero, I’m right behind you in line. I can’t wait to have her recipes in hard copy. Between Eva’s recipes and Harper’s photography, it’s gonna be a cookbook that will be on my coffee table before it goes to the kitchen. I just know it’s gonna be a work of art.
Soon!!!
@@PastaGrammar yay!!!
@@PastaGrammar Not soon enough! My family is from Piedmont and the episode where Ava made Bagna Cauda brought tears to my eyes. It was a New Years staple growing up. The trick is to let your vegetables soften in the "hot bath" for a minute and catch any drippings with a crusty bread.
I'm 100% with Eva. My partner also has been drinking that protein sludge every morning for 5 years now and through the testament of time....I'm still disgusted.
You dont even have to be Italian to know that shit aint right :DD
If u mix it with fruit in a blender it tastes good
Le.proteine in polvere sono buone
Love from India!! I love Italy and Italian people!! They are friendly! I really want to learn Italian!!!
Italia Is hard good luck
Good luck my friend. I'm always glad when people from India show interest and appreciation for my country. We need friendship between us!
Good luck
I can help! :)
I want to learn Hindi
8:05. E qui si vede come Eva ha perfettamente “italianizzato” Harper...... lei un’insalatina e lui una bella padella di pasta ! 😉
Harper: "Eva ever have moonshine?"
Eva: "As you can see guys here, we are in the middle Olive trees..."
Boss Move Fatality!
That caught my attention too, but I think it was just an unintentional edit. Most likely minutes would've passed between Harper asking that and Eva talking about olive trees.
Dasa, Calabria, from the Greek word for forest, dasos. Greek was spoken in this village until the mid-16th century. The Greeks and their culture were absorbed by Roman Catholicism, but the Greek light still lives on through Eva.
Great information thank you. And we love Greek People and the food there. I'm actually trying to buy a house in Paros this year.
@@alexb.123 You're welcome. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson own a villa on the island of Antiparos. I guess that will make you neighbors.
We love Greece, love from Italy. The south of Italy is Megale Hellas still :)
Ioannis - thank you! Your wonderful insight shows culture still lives on!
My best friend when I was a little girl, her mom was Italian and she had two kitchens as well, with a beautiful canning cellar, she called it, with rock pebbles as the floor and just wooden shelves meticulously filled with everything you can imagine that could be canned. I was mesmerized with it all! Love to both of you and yours, STAY WELL!
My family too! Lol
I love you so much, guys! I love the way Eva speaks english, so simple and fluent, and I'm amazed by the passion she puts in cooking and tasting food! And Harper is the perfect half of the couple, we wiewers couldn't do without his comments to Eva's cooking, and his face expressions full of wonder when he tastes Eva's works of art!! Go on like this and you'll become tv stars!!!!
I had to chuckle a bit, growing up all my Italian friends and family had 2 kitchens. I remember a lunch in Italy ... Dandelion salad, homemade cold cut meats, and Parmesan cheese chunks. Sometimes rabbit would replace the cold cuts. Nonna would sauté the rabbit in olive oil then add rosemary, loads of garlic, and white wine. Nonna was from Lake Como. Nonno was born in Pescara.
loads of garlic? It’s always been my impression that Italians doesn’ t use that much garlic. Maybe your nonna was a bit different and used more than most? Do you think so? 🤗
I thought two kitchens was the normal thang growin’ up in Sri-Lankan, until I came to Australia 😅
Mum’s home that she built over here a few years ago, thankfully has two kitchens and toilets 🚽 with BIDETS!!! 🥰🤗😅🥰🤗😅
@@lottatroublemaker6130 I usually depends on the particular dish. The chicken dish I mentioned above I enjoyed in various regions of Italy. I was born in Pescara, but when I was young, I had a girlfriend from Reggio Calabria and her mother made it with loads of garlic. They would leave the cloves whole. Again, just a particular recipe.
@@robstlace4599 The typical rural Tuscan way my family makes "brick chicken" is with tons of rosemary and loads of garlic in whole cloves. Some of the garlic inevitably gets burnt. (all the youtube recipes are wrong) Rabbit would sometimes be cooked the same way.
@@gregmuon Yes, very similar recipe, minus the cloves. They would use plenty of crushed black pepper. After browning the rabbit in olive oil they would add the wine, garlic, and lots of fresh rosemary. When the wine cooked down to nothing, the rabbit was ready.
Your channel is pure happiness. Not only are you a very nice duo, but you have a great way of transmitting Italian culinary culture. There are so many UA-camrs who massacre this heritage every day ;) thanks and long live to your channel !
As you can see, in Italy we always have something to do, also during the confination: cooking!!!! What a wonderful thing to find oranges directly on the trees
I grew up in south San Francisco,at that time the town was mostly Italian. Everyone had two kitchens. In the basement of our house we had the second kitchen where all the neighbor women women would make pasta,this is where I learned to make pasta.my wonderful grandfather also made his own wine in the basement,there was a huge wine press and so many barrels for the wine! Angelo my grandfather was a Shepard in the Italian alps so we also ate a lot of polenta.the men in the family would use the kitchen in the basement to pluck the ducks and pheasants and my mother and her sisters would make a stew of the foul and serve it with polenta and mozzarella.those days are gone,but you and Harper have brought back all those memories of a wonderful Italian childhood.thank you both for keeping up the tradition of making the most wonderful food in the world!
That's just like my Portuguese immigrant family. The basement was used for making the wine and preparing the chickens and especially pig. Every year in during the fall they would take a pig into the basement and use every part of it for food. Blood sausages, spiced sausages, pork rinds, cured meats. They would also pickle vegetables. No food went to waste
That sounds so wonderful and reminiscent of my favorite little Italy - Sausalito 💖...I grew up in Richmond
Those days are here. In Italy 😉
3:01 Eva's instant reaction to Harper's breakfast automatically had me click that like button! The rest of the video didn't disappoint either. The rest of the meals looked amazing.
- "brava"
- "grazie"
- "good job"
- "I know"
that was the most "Han Solo" moment ever :D
The amount of Italian food I have eaten has drastically increased since I found your channel :)
How does Eva's hair always look so fantastic?!
Good food, and washing!
Good haircut !!
Italian families are a joy to watch especially around diner time is like watching a sitcom but then for real!!
Living in Munich, which is often called Italy's northernmost city, I always thought that the kind of Italian food we can get here at restaurants or cook for ourselves is the real deal. After having watched several videos, it begins to dawn on me that I might not be quite correct. Much of what I eat here might be "Italian style cooking" at best. Anyway, I keep learning from your videos almost every day. Keep these videos coming! :)
I have never heard Munich called italy’s northernmost city! But having been to both places that makes a lot of sense. Munich is truly one of the most beautiful and warm city’s I have ever been to. Really reminiscent of Italy
@@luked4043, it is called that for several reasons. First, many buildings were built by Italian architects that have been hired from South of the Alps. In fact, Munich's first opera house was built on the insistence of the Italian wife of some elector back in the 1650s. From 1810 on, Turin chocolatier Luigi Tambosi opened his famous café in Munich -- and it's still in business! In 1890, the first Italian restaurant, the Osteria Bavaria (now Osteria Italiana) opened in Munich's university quarter in Schelling Street. Of course many more followed after WW2, when many Italians were hired to help rebuild Germany after the war. Of course these workers did not only enrich the culinary scene, but also added more than just a pinch of the oft-quoted "dolce vita". Also, many Munich artists, musicians, writers, and other cultural figures drew their inspiration from Italy. That is probably the most important reason for Munich's nickname, because it is culture that forms the way of life of a city most significantly. I don't know if I would love my city as much as I do without all those Italian influences. Maybe it would be just another Bavarian provincial town. Which would be okay I guess, but I like my Italian Munich better. :)
@@jensmoellenhoff a magical place it has become. I look forward to visiting it again and having a bier in the englischer garten. Danke für die erklärung und ich wünsche dir ein schöne Woche!
München die nördlichste Stadt Italiens? Sagt wer? Nie gehört. München ist alles andere als das. Schon mal bayrische Küche gecheckt?
@@susn1987 must be an old saying?
Just wanted to let you know how much I have enjoyed watching your videos. Being a nurse and working very hard during this pandemic, your videos offer a little escape time and always make me smile! Love you both! Thank you for all you do 😊
Grazie a te per tutto il tuo lavoro e quello dei tuoi colleghi
Thank you for your sacrifices in your very tough career. I know you work hard, long, frustrating hours...
So good to see my great grandma's province. She was from Zaccanopoli, an hour away from Dasà. She came to Argentina with just 14 years of age, and not knowing a single word of Spanish.
Ava is so funny and so proud of her Italian culture
I find it very amazing on her knowledge of cooking and all of the recipes that she knows.
I love everything about this video. The food that is so simple and so good. A hike up a mountain after breakfast with the one you love. Olive trees, fresh oranges. I took a deep breath just watching. A tour of a town steeped in wisdom: it was either the Madonna who kept the people safe from the plague or their belief in her, it doesn't really matter which, they were safe. The community getting together to wash clothes, and in ancient times make their grain. Maybe 'rona is telling us this: enjoy the simple pleasures, this is the way life should be. Eva, you are an artist whose medium is life and food; Harper, you are an artist whose medium is life and storytelling.
I love this comment!
Love that you don't shy away from morning face. I feel ya!
Oooooh ecco, finalmente qualcuno che inzuppa i biscotti nell'acqua!
Non potete immaginare quante volte mi hanno preso per il culo per sta cosa. Non sono solo!
Btw ...che belli quei carciofi! :O
Pure mia sorella lo fa spesso e volentieri. Non preoccuparti: a quanto pare siete in tanti! 😉
Anch'io lo faccio a volte... Vai tranqui...
Buoni i carciofi, ma anche la spigola in crosta di sale è fantastica! Io di solito così, cucino l'orata. Adoroooo
I'd like to see Eva make her version of focaccia bread. I've fallen down the italian cooking youtube hole and love watching the different versions. I love your content! Thanks for posting.
We were supposed to go back and visit Italy last year, but couldn't. This year is not looking good either. Your adventures there make me miss it even more. I can't wait to go back!!!
I wanted to tell you guys I started learning Italian inspired by your channel. It sounds so beautiful and I can't wait to one day visit italy.
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My Mom lived with an Italian family when she was a teenager while she went to Catholic boarding school. She told me about the 2 kitchens. One on the main floor and one in the basement.
Eva! Your chicken recipe from the favorite American ingredients video is a regular dinner for us now. Delicious and we don’t know what you called it but we call it “Eva’s Delicious Chicken!” Thank you!
Can't wait for Ava's cookbook.
Right?! 🤩
Agree!
LOL! Italians always have two kitchens! Both my grandmother and my mother had a basement kitchen in their homes. I'm trying to convince my husband we need a kitchen in our basement. He thinks we should do an outdoor kitchen. I said we could do that too! I would totally buy Ava and Harper's cookbook. Brings back memories of my childhood from Piedmont to Chicago.
I am so glad I have met you on UA-cam. Love from Azerbaijan 🇦🇿❤️
My birth place. Baku💕
I recently discovered your channel and am IN LOVE! Not only are you wonderful, but I adore and respect the cultural exchanges and sharing. Eva, your cooking is everything I hope to achieve. Thank you for the inspiration to be a better and more creative cook.
I love Italia, and I'm so glad, that I found your channel yesterday. Can't wait for the borders to open. Love from Austria
The Met. Just brought back the feelings of anticipation and excitement from back then in 2014. I wish you every encouragement in keeping your passion alive and transmitting that to the world....it needs it!Xx
Love this! You showed us more than just your kitchen! And yet there was plenty of authentic Italian food too! The best! I hope you can take us ALL over Italy in the future!
Every real Italian home has 2 kitchens!! We had a downstairs kitchen for everyday meals. The upstairs kitchen was for holidays or more formal dinner parties! LOL I love the way Harper’s eyes roll to the back of his head when trying a new dish... quickly followed by a loving look over at Eva 🥰
fate veramente dei bei video: buon contenuto, buona struttura, buon editing, buon intrattenimento.. vi meritereste molto di più di quello che avete già!
avete un format molto originale e valido a mio parere.
complimenti, keep it up!
Grazie mille!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hey, don't throw away the artichoke stems. Just peel them and the inner part tastes like the artichoke heart.
Best cooking couple on youtube!
Eva's hair is one of a kind 😍
"Eva, you ever had moonshine?"
See, now I need an "Eva tries American liquor" video
Italian moonshine does exist. I've had it. Maybe they should find some, except it's illegal there too.
Today it is less common, but in northern Italy, up to 30/40 years ago, every farmer who had grapes prepared his own grappa by distilling the marc.
It was illegal and could be dangerous because the distillate originally contained toxic concentration of methanol.
Thus it was said that to make a good grappa one had to throw away the head and tail and keep only the heart.
My grandpa tried to smuggle some years and years ago from Montenegro and they took it and he’s been angry ever since 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Hdgsgdhsh damn, poor Pop Pop 🥺
@@MrMalagutiAle Grappa! Exactly. My cousin once removed had a still. I still remember it, next to the donkey, about 30 years ago. He knew well to discard the head and the tail.
Thank you for taking us along on your trip to Italy! Italy is definitely high on my list of places to visit eventually. It looks like one of the most beautiful places on earth, with some of the best food!
I had always wondered how both Harper and especially Eva could be so skinny eating all that stuff....They eat very little actually, just really high quality stuff.
They seem to eat one big meal a day and that kind of works like intermittent fasting.
All what stuff? They had two meals lol.
As an Italian who loves to cook I get asked the same question all the time - - the answer is good food, nutritious and well-prepared, is satisfying. And so one does not eat endlessly looking for a satisfaction that eludes us. Also notice the scant use of sugar and the absence of any highly processed food.
And not oily and sugary.
Outside of America people use fresher foods. Straight from gardens. Its more nutritious and safer than the food we eat here in America. Our food is genetically modified, a lot of pesticides are used, and the cooking uses so much salt, sugar, and fat. And then there's the awful packaged, canned, frozen, and fast food. Whenever I would go back to my home country in Europe I would lose 10 or 20 pounds, and whenever my relatives would visit the states they would gain 10 or 20 pounds.
Italy is DEFINITELY a bucketlist destination for me!!!
My husband and I tried making homemade pasta a while ago, but we forgot to add one extra egg “for god” like Eva instructed. Didn’t quite turn out as hoped, so we won’t forget next time! :) love the videos and the recipes!
Hey ! No wonder I like Evas recipes so much! my heritage is from Serra...right next to Dasa!! I remember when I was a kid, also the women washing the laundry in the town laundry area of Serra San Bruno. Made perfect sense.. wish it was still going.. miss it so much
No kidding! Eva has family in Serra and we went there a few times
You’ve probably heard this before, but the Food Network should create a show featuring you both! Thank you for sharing this content.
Thank you!
I loved that Eva showed the proper pasta to vegetable ratio also, salt crusted fish is one o my favorites.
I love the way Eva is cooking. You can see she love and respect food x
Thank you so much for bringing authentic Italian cooking to the rest of the world. The world needs this and you two do such a great job of it.
Aww can’t wait to see Mama Rosa even if it’s only for a minute... however short or long she is comfortable with
I also married into a Latin family. Its incredible the weight of importance they put on their food. Whatever part of the day it is, they will be discussing and planning what to eat at the next meal, even while eating the present one. But no complaints from me! Best food in the world, even though simple most of the time.
Italians make everything look beautiful , even the old mill and place to wash clothes 😍😍😍😍 , truth be told I only knew cooking and shopping for vegetables is so pleasurable only after seeing french and Italian people 🥰 love from india
My parents are originally from Dasa and I was born in Australia. It was great seeing Dasa again haven’t been there in years especially I fume my mother always told me stories of her washing the clothes. Loved seeing the olives trees which my grandfather owned a lot of them. Thanks for the memories and hope
One day I will see you in Dasa
Eva, your hometown is beautiful!! I really enjoyed you showing us where the washing used to be done, and the community grain mill. And the image of the blessed virgin, along with the history behind it. Thank you guys for sharing this lovely town with us! I love it ♥️💕🤗
Thank you!
Love seeing Italy along with the great Italian dishes!
The waving of forks! I love it.
A sincere thank you! For your delightful company!!!
4:38 Wow, that's a beautiful countryside!
I can't wait for more of Eva's Dad!! He's fantastic!!
Thank you for letting us all in to your lives. It’s extremely wonderful to see a day in your lives. I hope you had an amazing time in Italy. I have many relatives I will (hopefully) be visiting soon in Acri.
Eva's town reminds me of my grandparents town in Portugal. Very nostalgic. Love all the food xx
This is one of my favorite videos from you guys. It's nice to see you out of the kitchen, showing us moments of your life, while later we still see the cooking happening. Please do more where you go out in the town or visit other places, whole you are in Italy.
I love watching you young kids cooking and eating together so cool. well done ragazzi.
I love you both so much! This is my favorite channel right now, hands down!!
Take your time, Mama Rosa!! We will love you when you're ready for us 🥰😍🤗
I can totally relate to the morning-before-coffee look..AND mood! 😅
This will sound cheesy but, watching Eva cook is like listening to a symphony. You guys make everything look so easy.
A little back story; I do not pay for content like movies or shows. Not when I can get them free online. So, I find it is important to mention that I would gladly pay to watch a show with you two touring around italy, being normal, hungry people. The juxtaposition between you guys is very enjoyable. Keep it up!
Yes, please do a cookbook. I’m allergic to dairy protein, so I will have to do things without cheese or find a substitute, but this 25% Italian lady would love to start cooking some more authentic Italian recipes.
Quick tip: I discovered that tofu can be made with any legumes, and homemade tofu can be a good substitute for fresh dairy cheese
Thanks for sharing my pic! @triadfoodies and I will be cooking our next Pasta Grammar dish this Thursday.
If I lived in Ava’s town I would never leave.
Eva will get to enjoy wonderful oranges in Arizona. Artichokes too for you Harper! 😉
Great seeing the city and don’t push mama Rosa to be on camera. Reminds me of my grandmothers village in Spain. Boveda was the town in Galicia. Hello to her Dad. Once a week not enough.
Lunch looks amazing! I enjoyed the beautiful views of Calabria.
love how Eva used a ceramic pan for lunch and a granite pan for dinner
i'm still here with my teflon
I'm enjoying the musical accompaniment! Nice addition!
Love watching yall here in Georgia, alot of good food that we have been watching , me and the wife been wanting to go to Italy 🇮🇹
This might be my new fave channel. Great wholesome content.
La reazione di Eva al beverone proteico, mi spezza!😂😂 I absolutely love this channel!!
Davvero, condivido. XD
che poi in realta quel brand di proteine è il top, ma non è sostitutivo di un pasto, è solo un aiuto ad un certo tipo di allenamento, che nel video e nella loro giornata non c'è, anche se loro in realtà in Usa sono fissati di palestra e body building e si vede
Love it too, so fun to watch this couple adorable.
Maybe, several years down the road, when they're tired of teaching us food, they'll switch to teaching us Italian! 🤗😍🥰
@@tiffanyhackerspace8377 knowing English language you can go anywhere in the world, otherwise Italian language is useful just in Italy or for your own pleasure 😉 ...said that, to improve themselves in something is always good 😊👍🏻
When Eva turned her head at Harper shaking that protein shake had me on the floor laughing. I feel you Eva. My husband eats cereal so quickly and loud, I just can’t. Love your videos!
Wow thank you Eva for showing us your hometown. I just recently discovered your channel and can't wait to cook Eva's pasta sauce. :-).Harper you better be buying Eva whatever she likes for cooking all those amazing dinners lol
Artichokes boiled with potatoes is my favorite dish here in Greece.Lots of extra virgin oil in the end stired with lemon juice on top.
I’m so glad I found your channel, so informative and fun! Ava, taught me the right way to use garlic in Italian cooking, and I learn something new with every video! Thank you for everything!
Great production Eva and Harper. Well done.
Yea we italians don't eat a lot on breakfast.
The fish dinner looked amazing in true Italian style fresh simple & tasty, she is such a great cook .
Ava has the most beautiful black curly hair I've ever seen, I always think that when I watch these videos.
It's that inky black/blue that is amazing!
I know right! Never seen hair that beautiful before, am a bit jealous lol
Brian May
Love this couple. Love the cooking. Love Eva.