Simply Italian: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Michela Chiappa is Welsh but comes from a massive Italian family who all hail from Northern Italy. She and her sisters have been making traditional Italian dishes and pasta for as long as they can remember.

Over four weeks, Michela demonstrates that home-made pasta is the stuff of celebration and can completely transform any mealtime.

The series will take you from the basics of making the dough and rolling it, to learning how to make authentic Italian sauces, mouth-watering filled pasta and fantastic celebratory dishes.

Michela travels from her home in South Wales to Emilia Romagna in Northern Italy where her family come from to find out all there is to know about this Italian staple.

Series details

• Title: Simply Italian
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: Food
• Premiere date: 2012-07-30
• Final broadcast date listed: 2012-08-20
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Channel 4
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 29830
• IMDb ID: tt3221304
• TVDB ID: 261092

Cast and credited roles

• Michela Chiappa — Presenter

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2012-07-30; final listed air date 2012-08-20; episode order: 4.

Source and licence

Adapted from Simply Italian on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.