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welcome to Italy today we are in

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beautiful Venice at the stunning ciprian

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hotel to walk you through a very special

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cultural tradition the operative

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experience

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I'm Adelina fostati from condana's

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traveler Italia and I'm a professional

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expert of aperitivo

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these hours between the end of the work

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day and dinner are a time when Italians

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enjoy pre-gener drinks and live snacks

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to unwind after a long day though it's

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widely recognized that modern aperitivo

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began in Northern Italy all roads lead

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to Rome when it comes to the roots of

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this tradition ancient Romans practice

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gustatsu which was a bountiful first

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course served at the Roman banquet this

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course could last for hours and allowed

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ample time for socializing the origins

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of Italy's modern aperitivo culture are

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difficult to trace reports suggest that

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the invention of Vermont in 1786 by

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touring-based distiller Antonio

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benedetto carpano kicked off the

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tradition with its new aromatic herbal

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flavors vermouth quickly became a

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popular and affordable prisoner drink in

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the region after the success of Vermont

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other Italian distillers were quick to

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create their own apparatus such as

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Martino Rossi and Campari both created

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in Northern Italy this led to the

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development of our basis cocktails we

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are in bhargaviano one of the legendary

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spot in Venice for aperitivo let's see

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what the bartender recommends

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welcome to the bar I'm Thomas and today

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I prepare for you the Bellini the

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bellini is a cocktail invented from

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Giuseppe Cipriani the founder of the

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hotel

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is made with fresh white peach puree

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is homemade and made just in season and

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mixed with the Prosecco our local wine

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foreign

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enjoy your operative although we are

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sampling several drinks today Italians

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find it a bit taboo to drink without

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eating we'll try some snacks together

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very soon it's very nice your bellinino

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the apartheid usually is made with a

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wine or bitter because stimulated the

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appetite for for dinner some of these

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most popular bitters are Pearl and

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Campari both native to Italy are usually

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ordered in a spritz or a Negroni let's

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try an apple Spritz next

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some ice in a wine glass we use the

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aperolo our local bitter from Padua

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then we add some prosecco our local

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sparkly wine

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and just a touch of soda

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with steer and then a fresh orange and

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your Apple Spritz is ready

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so the upper Spritz is invented in

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Beneto originally is made just with a

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white wine and soda then the local

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people are the the Apple we have to take

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another cocktail so we use the Italian

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red vermouth

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from carpano

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Campari

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our Beetle from Milano

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and a nice Italian London dry Gene a

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product in Tuscany

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spiritual

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this cocktail de Negroni is my favorite

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fresh orange and your Negroni is ready

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reminder that we are just sampling today

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Italians usually have one maybe two

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drinks during a peritivo you don't want

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to overdo it if you are not a fan of

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cocktails feel free to order a glass of

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wine Vino beer beer or a non-alcoholic

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beverage an alcoholico now that you have

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your drink come with me outside for some

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chicken Andiamo

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chain

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actually we can say Chin Chin Chin

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salute we have different way of saying

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the same thing chin is more casual Chin

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Chin it's okay salute is very classic

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maybe with your grandpa and your grandma

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you say salute instead you know because

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apparativo drinks are typically bitter

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and carbonated they pair perfectly with

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salty snacks which come complementary

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with your beverage order here I have

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some chicken it's a typical name for

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finger food in Venice you know in Bonita

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you walk a lot there are no Cars it's

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everything on the water so you were

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walking around and you had a little bite

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around the city this is one of them

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that in English we can say fried

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mozzarella I would say yes and then we

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have bakala called we can have sardines

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sour that is like sugary and salted fish

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very very nice the peritivo time is a

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moment of relax it's not just a moment

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where you want to just drink for example

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mozzarella

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it's very very yummy it's something that

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you have since your childhood and it's

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very nice to have a small amount

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otherwise how can we have dinner La

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Chena it's so common Deputy China or of

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course a peritivo buffet with large

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unfair for additional fee this is for

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Italians who choose to forgo dinner and

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make this their meal we call it

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aperitable in forzato event where you

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eat a lot and you drink but the real

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thing is to eat not much food and not to

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drink too much so one two glasses no

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more than that

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aperitivo start from six five is more

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for tea or late coffee and it's very

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important when we have a peritivo to

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enjoy the moment and to enjoy the food

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enjoy where we are and the people we are

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with you know did you try this it's

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really good aperitive is a cultural

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tradition meant to be enjoyed by

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everyone prices can change of course and

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this is a high-end experience but expect

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to pay around 8 to 10 euros for your

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appetitivo in general thank you so much

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have a nice day tipping in Italy I mean

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it's not a must you don't have to but

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it's nice too five percent of the the

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bill is perfect but just if you like and

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if you like the service participating in

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this tradition is a great way to

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experience a culture socialize and

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unwind much like this country's other

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forms of gastronomic Excellence Italians

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are turnability into a form of Art

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