Food to me has always been dangerously fun. Growing up in an Italian house in the culinary melting pot of Queens, food was the way we showed love, the way we argued, the way we communicated in general. It was at weddings, funerals, birthdays, road trips, and every event in between. Food has had me on an adventure all my life, and just like that, I found it bringing me to another deeper, even more absurdly, potentially perilous journey.

After the success of my previous film Italy In Bocca, I got a few calls from various production companies and show-runners interested in developing it into a series which got my friend (and partner in the film) Peter Boggia and I thinking. One of the concepts was to take old dishes and revive them for a modern audience, something we called “Bring Back the Dish.”