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# Italian
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/mind-chef/episode/mind-chef-mind-chef-italian/
- Published: 2025-06-06T15:51:33.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-22T21:03:02.000Z
- Description: Explore April Bloomfield’s deep love for Italian cuisine and its influence on her cooking.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: The Mind of a Chef, Season 2, Episode 12, #ZZZ_Episode_60b727b7-f680-4ca2-a6e7-94fff9ae3328, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_4e99c539-b264-43d4-8cbf-fa764ea8bada, #v1.16

April explores her deep love for Italian cuisine and its influence on her cooking. She visits Marcella Hazan and cooks a dish that reinvigorated her love of cooking. Chef Ruth Rogers makes walnut tagliatelle; in San Francisco Chef Mike Tusk makes extruded pasta; and April makes her famous gnudi.