First of all Floyd cooks pasta with squid ink in seafood and tomato sauce. He claims there "ain't no fresh pasta".
Floyd makes any number of errors. He claims pasta comes from China, he claims that most Italians make their own pasta, he dismisses spaghetti bolognese, even though bolognese sauce is a perfectly genuine recipe from the town in which he's cooking.
Next we visit Parma and see cheese making and parma ham.
After that Floyd tries to cook ravioli in the rain in a public square, with various people holding umbrellas over him. He doesn't seem to be able to make the ravioli very well and he has someone else prepare most of the ravioli for him. There are only about eight of them. Keith natters about fresh pasta.
Next Keith visits Venice and eats a salted cod dish which he claims is very, very simple to make, except Keith doesn't show how to make it.
All the ingredients are variously "fabulous", "splendid", "beautiful", "lovely" and "wonderful"
Next is a risotto dish which seems at least genuine with lobster, cognac, parmesan cheese, lemon juice, scampi.
After that Floyd hits a fish market and then cooks some fish in front of Rialto bridge.
[This is a review of an episode of a Keith Floyd cookery programme.]
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