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Gino's Italian Escape Season 7 Episodes
Season 7 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2019 - 2020
Episode 1
Gino's Italian Express: The Alpine Express (Nice - Turin)
23 mins
This season, Gino is on a train journey through Northern Italy to see its beautiful vistas and cook in fantastic places. He visits the vineyards of Cuneo, The Italian Job (1969) set in Turin and the racing rooftop of Fiat's headquarters.
Episode 2
Gino's Italian Express: Tuscany by Steam (Siena - Asciano)
22 mins
Gino is on a magical steam train tour through Tuscany. He sees Siena's street horse race, Asciano's donkey race, makes a chocolate panforte cake, takes a wine bath in Chianti Region, and makes farfalle pasta with mushrooms and spinach.
Episode 3
Gino's Italian Express: The Riviera by Rail (Monterosso - Vernazza)
22 mins
Gino takes a train to visit three of five centuries-old picturesque seaside towns on the rugged Italian Riviera (aka Cinque Terre). In Corniglia, he visits the town market and has a duet with a local florist. In Manarola, he visits the town's popular hillside terraces and prepares minestrone soup with cheesy ciabatta bread. In Vernazza, he visits the town's famous hillside vineyards and makes his own version of lemon tiramisu.
Episode 4
Gino's Italian Express: A Train of Two Cities (Bologna - Verona)
23 mins
In Italy's food capital, Bologna, Gino tries the city's famous mortadella sandwich (or panino). In the rice growing region of Mantova (or Mantua), Gino makes tasty chocolate rice pudding for the chefs cooking for the guests of the traditional local rice festival. In the city of love, Verona, Gino poses for young art school students, picks who sketched him the best, and prepares actual Italian meatballs for them.
Episode 5
Gino's Italian Express: Dolomite Mountain Express (Verona - Bolzano)
23 mins
Gino visits the majestic Lake Garda near Verona, joins a rowing practice for the annual regatta and cooks sausage and bean casserole for the rowers. In Bolzano, a former German town at the foot of the Dolomites, Gino learns about the local culture, folk dances and German sausage. After a harrowing cable car ride up the mountain, he jumps on the 100 years old Renon train line and, inspired by the German apple strudel, prepares his own version of the apple crumble for the engine driver.
Episode 6
Gino's Italian Express: The Renaissance Rail Route (Pisa - Florence)
23 mins
Gino visits Pisa, the home of the leaning tower and Vespa, cooks two asparagus dishes for a violin maker in Lucca, the home of Puccini, and prepares chicken thighs in beer sauce with a cooking teacher in the city of culture, Florence.
Episode 7
Gino's Italian Express: The Grand Lombardy Line (Milan - Bergamo)
23 mins
Gino visits the cult coffee shop that introduced cocktails to Milan, the famous bicycle factory in Treviglio, where he cooks Veal Milanese for bicyclers, the ice cream shop in Bergamo that invented stracciatella and the local restaurant that offers second chance at life to young troubled Bergamese, where he prepares tasty limoncetti biscuits for the guests.
Episode 8
Gino's Italian Express: The Lakes by Locomotive (Bergamo - Lake Iseo)
22 mins
Gino wraps up his exciting train tour of Northern Italy by focusing on the picturesque lake Iseo of the five great lakes area and the Train of Flavours which circles it. He spends a day with the local fishermen, prepares grilled agone fish with tomato salad for the train's passengers, visits the family of traditional boat makers on the tiny and cosy lake island town of Monte Isola and cooks delicious pears poached in vine and vanilla for them.
