TV show aired in Italy based on 2007 John Dickie's book "The Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food ".

In this series, Historian John Dickie takes us on a romp through Italy to tell its history through its food. He will expose the secrets of pasta's origins and pizza's near death; how lavish cuisine determined papal elections and the fate of dynasties, why Mussolini put the country on a diet, and how an American scientist put Italian food on the world map.