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Must-read travel guide on Italy's Sardinia.
Stanley Tucci shares a coveted family recipe.
A look at the Murdoch phone hacking scandal.
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The ultimate Searching for Italy travel guide for Sardinia |
This Sunday at 9 p.m ET, Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy lands in Sardinia for the ultimate Italian Mediterranean experience. Equally distanced from North Africa as it is from the mainland, Sardinia is Italy’s most geographically remote region. It's not even reachable by passenger ferry.
Whether you’re super yachting off the island’s Emerald Coast or perusing the nearest restaurant for a taste of Italian food heaven, Sardinia is a promising journey, rich with adventure every step along the way. Take, for instance, the 100 Towers Path – a spectacular hiking trail that traces more than 620 miles of Sardinia’s sandy coastline. The trail's main highlights include abandoned castles and caves, ponds and desert-like dunes, unique views of the Mediterranean coast, and a 100-stone lookout tower built throughout the 15th and 17th centuries.
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It’s a hiking adventure that many describe as a “spiritual pilgrimage,” one that captures the island’s beauty and countless waves of conquests – Roman, Phoenician and Spanish, to name a few.
For the more food-inclined travelers, the island is abundant with gastronomic experiences, promising authentic Sardinian cuisine. In Sunday’s episode, Tucci travels to the Sardinian town of Oliena, looking for a hard cheese called pecorino. The cheese is a staple in culurgiones – a handmade ravioli dish typically stuffed with mashed potatoes, garlic, chopped mint and topped with a drizzle of olive oil.
And if that wasn’t enough to thrill you, may we suggest Sardinia’s medieval village of Bosa, a kayak lover's dream? Here colorful artisan dwellings are juxtaposed with lavish palazzos of shiny pink magmatic rock.
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VIDEO: The Tucci family's unique twist on a must-have Italian treat
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Sweet and savory: Stanley Tucci indulges an 'addictively delicious' family recipe brimming with memories |
Nothing quite brings a family together like a homemade dish made from the heart – or, in the case of the Tucci family, a zeppole, a beignet-like doughnut.
For even the pickiest eaters, the Italian deep-fried doughnut comes in all variations and forms: hazelnut, chocolate, and cream for the classic sweet tooth or served with salami and a dash of salt for the more savory type. The Tuccis unequivocally prefer the latter, often incorporating their spin on the dish by deep-frying anchovies into the dough.
"Whenever my mother would begin to fry them, the whole family would unconsciously start edging more and more closer to the stove until we were all huddled around her, practically panting with a hunger we didn't know we had until she started cooking," Tucci wrote in his food memoir, Taste.
It’s no wonder Stanley Tucci describes the dish as “addictively delicious.”
Click here to learn more about the deep-fried Italian delicacy and the Tucci family's recipe.
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A look at the infamous Murdoch phone hacking scandal |
The Murdoch family's legacy will be forever clouded by the UK phone hacking scandal that led to almost two decades worth of investigations, court litigations, convictions, lawsuits and settlements.
News of possible phone hacking first erupted in 2005 when the Murdoch family’s now-defunct tabloid News of the World printed a story about Prince William injuring his knee. Two years later, News of the World editor Clive Goodman and a private investigator were convicted for illegal phone hacking in a court proceeding that would be the first of many. From Hugh Grant and Jude Law to J.K. Rowling and the families of 9/11 victims, the list of phone hacking targets increased over the years.
The paper also hacked the voicemail of 13-year-old murder victim Milly Dowler who went missing in 2002. "There was an intense police investigation and it took 6 months to find her remains. News of the World hacked into Milly Dowler's phone within days of her disappearance. They did this, not because they wanted to find her; they did this because they wanted to sell stories," Amelia Hill, senior reporter at The Guardian, said in the CNN Original Series The Murdochs: Empire of Influence.
The scandal forced the closure of News of the World, Britain’s top-selling paper. Looking back, most view the scandal as a testament to the Murdoch family’s uncontrollable ploy for political power, access and influence.
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The seven-part documentary series, The Murdochs: Empire of Influence, airs this Sunday at 10 p.m. ET. You can stream it now on CNNgo or watch the past two episodes on CNN this Saturday at 9 and 10 p.m. ET.
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