Amazingly, after watching four episodes of Tucci in Italy I have not booked a ticket to Italia to try some of the delicious food that has been showcased. I’m resigned to longing for it from the TV screen, though Tucci in Italy episode 4, “Abruzzo,” is not making it easy. 

An isolated region because of its difficult topography — Tucci himself said that this was a region in Italy that he had not been to — but there was plenty of comfort food that caught my eye in this episode.