Nadia Caterina Munno, star and executive producer of The Pasta Queen which arrives on Prime Video Oct. 24 highlighted two main ingredients that make the show unlike anything that has come before it: five generations of her Italian family and their perspective of Italy versus an American one.

Munno, who descends from an Italian pasta dynasty dating back to the 1800s and has gathered millions of TikTok and Instagram followers, will take audiences through four different regions of Italy to explore cooking. The thirteen episodes of the unscripted series will take viewrs through Campania, Puglia, Emilia Romagna and Lazio, where Rome is the capital. Lazio, Campania and Puglia were whre Munno was raised, and her father’s family comes from Campania. She wanted to include Emilia Romagna because of all of the well-known ingredients that come from that region.

“Prosciutto, balsamic vinegar, parmigiano reggiano, mortadella. I mean, the biggest, most famous ingredients come from that region,...