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Antonio Carluccio

lines on the record: 45
first: 2008-07-06
most recent: 2008-07-06
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Now there's a point, one that lasts very long. It would be very difficult probably. I would have the pleasure for a few days and then that's”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Piece of music. My final piece of music is very funny. I like animals and this is dedicated to them, the carnival of the animals by Sansong. Fantastic”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A little bit at the time, yes, the other day I took one to stealing. I can tell you that in foraging for things you don't refrain for stealing a little bit.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's where the island is. Oh yes, I would, yes. Anything herbs and roots and whatsoever. Even the top of Tistle is it well pronounced?”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The next piece of music is a wonderful one Dance of the Knights Prokofiev remind and I was there in the celebration of the birthday. Do you know that I have an office answering all the letters of the lovers in the world?”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's a fantastic thing to play with your hand and transform material, to produce something valuable. Either transform a piece of wood into something lovely to look at it or useful as well because the walking stick you walk with it the rest, the clay that gives me a lot of satisfaction, but I still have to find time for that. I have a lot to do.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“First of all, it doesn't go into my head at all. I think that probably there are many, many other people that could have done the same, only they didn't have the occasion. It's very difficult, you know, to judge yourself and say what makes, you know, ticking, you ticking. I believe that I have the patience to show to others without arrogance that food is a good thing, you can prepare it without being the king or feeling the king. And if incidentally they give you prizes for that, it's fine.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Equivalent of a knighthood for your services. Oh, no, no, very, very sort of. And they're very sour that the local paper, they didn't discover me yet. But I don't mind. In fact, I am known all over the world with the exception of Italy.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not really, I can tell you one thing that the umbelligal cord is cut forever when your mother and your father died. So I go to Italy now and I see my brother and sister then on top of that after fifty years in Ivrea the last time I lived there was Ibrea. I don't know anybody anymore. So you are relatively solo and alone there.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The next piece of music is yesterday. Now I am enough in England to appreciate all the music and this is a gentle, gentle, wonderful song. For me it's a classic not pop at all.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They're not dictators or something like that. That's a lovely thing to do with cooking. So why do you translate it in slavery sort of kitchen with a whip?”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Everywhere now. Everywhere. Some of them, no, not really. Some of them it's still positive, but most of them is so banal that it's, you know.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, to communicate with others, it's fantastic. I did it in television, and when I do something like that, I really communicate to other. I don't like to, as we said before, to be the teacher or something like that, because I can't be the teacher. I am one like you like anybody. And that's it?”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The mother that cooks seriously food for her family she gives love to them through cooking You know that cooking is sometimes quite heavy, you know the preparation and this and this and that and who would do it for nothing You know you do it just because you want to make people happy and this is my sort of twist that sometimes make happy myself when I cook it's”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“While I'm doing this thickly and very seldom think of something else because I concentrate to the person that I do it for because I give some as a present some collection of three hundred of those but I make some for people that I like and I give it to them.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And you have to have patience for that, otherwise you don't know the result, and similar thing is food. I tried with clay and is exactly the same I did once the head of the Duado Palozzi stood model for me for two hours. You didn't find that in the world.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well that comes a point in life where you have to draw the line and say wait a minute what are you looking for? Are you looking for a little thing? No, you're looking for an intelligent person nice and beautiful and that's what I find”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“one in Germany one is not mentionable because it was only very very few months and this is twenty six twenty seven years now”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, at the time not, she became involved then when we started to open next door I want to have a little shop which was the initial thing of Carlucha's and initial shop delicate. She collaborated on that very much and she was very good at it.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was an idea, it was a sort of believing in food, and most of the sort of restaurants are run by accountant and I didn't want that. It was run by me and it was just the pleasure to bring something to the customer.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, because we were on holiday together in Sardinia, I remember, and he saw that I could cook, and we agreed that I would run it only under the Pont of food, and Pierre nothing else, because I am very bad in administration. And so it is, and so I for three years I was managing director, and then I bought it of him. and then became what I wanted to become a real Italian restaurant. So practically from'81 I took over in'84.' And very sad to disclose. Yes”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Italian wine and here the first two or three years I was working in a similar situation, then my brother in law offered to me to run the Nielshield restaurant.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Now I was in Indiana and I was listening to this music there are sort of local music that they sing in the Heidigen and usually it was a which he was singing all the melodies of Vienna. One of them was ready to nourish a Castanbaum. It's the story of a tree which all of a sudden sprouts and flowers in August. We should have done it about two or three months before, and he believes that the tree believes that he want to show off it's a very similar thing to man, obviously. A sad but lovely story, and the Melody is lovely.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah quite sometimes and a couple of times I broke it myself but mostly it was me that was suffering that's funny one assumed you know you macho man you know nobody can hurt you have quite”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Ayamantik, and the girls there for me at the time had no something to bring on one palm of the hand always has been actually.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, in Vienna I was making a company Vienna by night with a bus going with the tourists in Moulin Rouge and this and this. By the way, I discovered for the first time that the people behind the Moulin Rouge, they are wonderful human beings, all of them family, mothers, doing the job because they wanted money.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I denied at the time I thought it was completely normal for me to cook. It's only later than that it specialized in insisting insisting during the year afterwards.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And in fact they tried to achieve those flavours in memorizing them, but it was very interesting because I called the other day actually a chap called Michael von Wolkenstein and at the time he didn't have very much money. And in fact I lived for a month or two in his flat and I was cooking that it was my first cooking. I was cooking past and he was the happy recipient of that, and then we discovered that with that we could invite people on board, and it was a fantastic thing to do. So I became a sort of cook. And I remember that I was calling my mother because I wasn't very knowledgeable and I create recipes. Oh yes, that would go this way days.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Chaikovsky, Vladimir Ashkenazi, I met Ashkenazi people in Vienna, the Chaikovsky piano concerto was given to me also together with Moldova. I don't know if Inge wanted to make me cultured”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, no, exactly the opposite. Then you have your paper and you have your cafe. They have about twenty five different type of cafe Einspen and Kurz and Brown and all possible because Vienna was the recipient of the Turkish invasion and the cafe was brought there.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's wonderful. I spent so much time in the cafe. Because in Vienna, if you go into a cafe, you don't go, and they are almost all empty table. That's one or two people. You don't go on an empty table. You go to a table with some person to have a discussion.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That lived in Vienna, she came first to Ivre where I was living there at the time, and then we decided both to go to Vienna because I didn't finish my A levels, and I did it in German. I was very proud of that because I had to learn German and do the examining.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Mama and papa too number six came ten years after me and it was very funny because nobody was expecting As in a family like that, the bigger brother or sister take care of the next one, and it was my turn of taking care of him. I saw in him a little bit my image coming up because it was athletics and so on. It was very nice.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“First of all it was given to me as a disc in Vienna, I remember by a girl until then I had the Caruso disc and all of that in a big gramophone that I was playing all the time about Italian opera and so on. But that was the first piece for me of foreign music. The Moldau is the story of the river that goes to Poland. And it reminds me from the beginning exactly the same in Austavali where we used to live the little regulates of water coming from the glacier and then enlarging enlarging and larging. And that was my memory. And I find it really fascinating.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“plenty there in the railway dandelion when it was the time in March. Then I had the luck to know somebody picking truffles, and I went with him and I was coming home with a little truffle that very proud, and I was very proud to come home and bring something to the family. That was the sense. Tommy”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Cook them or where you just arrived? It wasn't a teaching. It was an involuntary teaching. We were just watching, tasting. We were engaged in getting produce. For example, I was engaged in getting Rukola rockets. And you would go and search for it. Yeah.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We could cultivate a little bit of cabbage in this nearby the station. We could keep some few animals. You see the pig for an Italian family, it keeps you the whole year practically with the fat, with lardo, with ham, and with sausages. The fresh part they are eating, those that can't be preserved, they are eaten immediately like liver and heart and all that with wonderful ragus. What?”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“interest and underlying passion for the fact that my mother was a genius in the kitchen without wanting to be a genius, but she had to cook food for six people with six children, and wartime was pretty difficult, but he always managed to do something fantastic. What?”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, papa was station master of the railway, and I was born by pure coincidence in Beatri Summar on the Amalfi coast because papa was there at the time. So I was a happy child actually. I grew up then in an area where there was truffles moscato, and the mosquato is such a sweet wine that can ferment in your tummy, and very often I was coming home a little bit. It was very funny”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The lady who introduced me. In the 50s and 60s, in the time after the war where perhaps English food which is fantastic, so the ingredients are fantastic here. They could have been treated a little bit better. No, it was the foreign Greek, French, Italian that had the novelty. And doing so people forgot the own dishes.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I tried and that she can give was quite a good idea, but it wasn't Italian somehow. But the British cuisine that was a little bit sad for me because it wasn't there. So it was a bit of French and Chinese and Indian, but no British and I was wondering why. I blame a little bit Elizabeth Davies also for the rest of the thing.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then what did I hear? Well, he has avocado pira gambereti. They discovered the avocado pear, and they put in the gambaretti with prunes, and the aurora sauce, which was nothing else but mayonnaise with a bit of ketchup.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I find it very sad actually. The Italians were offering this sort of classic for ages food, just chicken, kiev or paldos or praise of it. When you pierce it, butter comes over the place. The Arancho Carmelat was a dessert, which was what they were.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, easy to remember. It's that I've been reading them are rather intricate. Even if it's just a very simple dish, even if it's only if it does for you, and I do it for myself. I can take all the cares to choose the best and to treat it as best. You see, when you taste something that your mother cooked about twenty, twenty five years ago, I assume that is the age where you were very small? Yes. Then immediately the taste pots they react. and it's not the look of the food that you remember but the taste.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What's the difference? There's a big difference. If you transmit to other you enthusiasts, there's much better. It comes down simpler, and the people receive it and then they adopt that. My personal motto is moth moth, which is minimum of fuss, maximum of flavor.”
2008-07-06 · Desert Island Discs · Antonio Carluccio · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source