This episode is another of the growing number of failures in the Chef's Table series. It is a dreadful slog of a none-minutes biography that the Director 'squeezed' into 45+ minutes.
The subject is fairly interesting, but not nearly as the level that most of the subjects of focus through the series have been. It might even be possible that this could have been presented in a genuinely interesting way. But, this is not that episode.
This one might have the highest talking heads screentime ratio. The food content is certainly the least. They even proffer simply grilled steaks, propped up on grill, against a setting sun in the background - with slow motion dramatic camera shots - as the food beauty shots. Really?!?
I think this Director may have directed some of the genuinely excellent episodes, but I'm going to double check. I can't understand how these especially bad episodes find their way to full production. Maybe producers are getting desperate for material; maybe trying too hard to pull from wider range of countries and regions (though, c'mon, this ir Italy again). I suspect they make decisions and commit resources prior to the production season, and just run with the product, irrespective of it's quality.
This episode is an incredibly boring slog. Skip it, of watch on 4x speed.