Season 1

1. Umbria

1994-08-02

Floyd takes a train ride through rolling landscapes, goes fishing at Lake Trasimeno and cooks up beef and mushrooms. Plus, he gets behind the wheel of a Ferrari.

2. Tuscany

1994-08-09

Floyd cooks a pigeon dish in a busy square, visits Sienna where he cooks a winter dish, and gets to stay in a castle converted to a hotel.

3. Sicily

1994-08-16

Floyd starts off on the west coast in Marsala, he visits and cooks a pizza from the salt fields south of Trapini, before heading to the island of Maretemo for a festival.

4. Puglia

1994-08-23

Floyd visits the pre-dawn fish auction in Molfetta and checks out the Romanesque cathedrals and Swabian castles built by Frederick II, the Norman conqueror.

5. Liguria and Piedmont

1994-08-30

Floyd takes a journey through Cinque Terre, where fishing villages nestle in the seaside cliffs on the Ligurian coast. He also goes to a chocolate factory.

6. Calabria

1994-09-06

Floyd joins the cheesemaker Gino, whilst he does the rounds of a handful of smallholdings in Marano, and then cooks up marinated wild boar.

7. Emilia Romagna & Venice

1994-09-13

Floyd visits Bologna, the capital of Emilia, which is full of beautiful buildings, medieval towers and churches. Then it's onto the home of Parmesan cheese.