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john green, the teenagers in your life do. >> hi. >> wertheim: as an author, he dominates the young adult bestseller list. >> good morning, hank it's tuesday. >> wertheim: online he has millions of youtube subscribers, but here's what some john green fans don't know and will learn tonight, he has a serious mental health condition. >> i had a lot of self-destructive impulses and i felt scared all the time. >> wertheim: what were you scared of? >> the short answer is everything. >> stahl: the restaurant ranked number one in the world is in a little-known town of modena, italy, osteria francescana, where you have to wait months to get a reservation. >> caesar salad in bloom. >> chef massimo bottura says it wasn't always like this. those are flowers? >> all flowers, edible flowers. >> that his avant-garde eatery might never have become number one if not for a simple and spectacular dish of old- fashioned tagliatelle. so that turned everything around?

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>> scott pelley: last night, brett kavanaugh was sworn in as the 114th justice of the supreme court of the united states. the bitter confirmation debate in the senate ended with the closest vote in well over 100 years. when the roll call was taken, two senators cast votes that could threaten their careers. they were undecided until the final days and might have voted either way. these two women, a democrat and republican came out of the battle with opposite views. heidi heitkamp, democrat of north dakota, and susan collins, republican of maine, sat down with us to explain their view of judge kavanaugh, his accusers, and why they may have voted against their own political interests. >> november is coming! november is coming! we believe survivors! we believe survivors! we are the majority! the majority dissents! >> pelley: yesterday, outside

the capitol, more than 160 protestors were arrested. >> the clerk will call the roll. >> mr. alexander? >> i am a mother and i am a patriot! >> pelley: inside the senate, the vote was interrupted again and again-- >> restore order in the gallery. >> pelley: vice president pence, in his role as president of the senate, tried to control the chamber-- as late-deciding senators attempted to vote. >> shame! shame! shame! >> pelley: among those voting through the protest was republican susan collins of maine. >> miss collins! >> pelley: senator, you came to this interview on capitol hill with a security detail. what has all of this been like for you? >> susan collins: well it's been very difficult. i have had the honor of serving in the senate for nearly 22 years and this is as ugly a situation as i have ever seen during that time. >> don't put a liar on the court!

don't put a liar on the court! >> collins: i have had to have security because of threats against me and family members and staffers, and this has been unlike anything i have ever been through. >> pelley: senator susan collins had been the hope of both parties. she is the most moderate republican who often votes against the g.o.p. >> collins: thank you mr. president. >> senator collins, please vote no. >> pelley: friday, protestors shouted for a "no" at the moment collins revealed her decision. >> collins: i will vote to confirm judge kavanaugh. i am comfortable with the decision that i made. i spent an enormous amount of time in the first part of the confirmation process studying the judge's 12-year record as a circuit court judge. i was satisfied at that point,

started working on the speech, and then these devastating allegations are made that sends the whole thing into a tailspin. >> i believed he was going to rape me. i tried to yell for help. >> pelley: it was the testimony of dr. christine blasey ford that left republican collins with severe doubts. >> collins: i had read her anonymous letter, or her redacted letter, and questioned judge kavanaugh about it over the phone in a subsequent interview. >> pelley: when you talked to judge kavanaugh privately on the phone about the letter, what did he say? >> collins: he categorically and emphatically denied the allegations. >> pelley: when you saw dr. ford's testimony, what did you think? >> collins: she was clearly terrified, traumatized, and i believed that a sexual assault had happened to her.

what i think she is mistaken about is who the perpetrator was. i do not believe her assailant was brett kavanaugh. >> pelley: democratic senator heidi heitkamp is close to republican collins, but far removed from her friend's decision. >> heitkamp: when this nominee was announced, i had a completely open mind. had a change to meet him. in fact, i liked him. i had a chance to begin to review his judicial record and there was really nothing at that point that i believe was disqualifying for him to serve. >> pelley: you were going to vote yes? >> heitkamp: probably, yeah. >> i do. >> pelley: that is, until the fateful hearing. >> heitkamp: two things stand out. first off, i think that her story was completely believable. and i found his performance to be disturbing. >> this is a circus! >> heitkamp: i think you know, you can understand the anger, especially if you believe you're wrongfully accused. but as the questioning went on and really, at the point that he

had his interaction with amy klobuchar, it was jaw dropping for me. >> so you're saying there's never been a case where you drank so much that you didn't remember what happened the night before, or part of what happened? >> it's-- you're asking about, you know, blackout. i don't know. have you? >> could you answer the question, judge? i just-- so you-- that's not happened. is that your answer? >> yeah, and i'm curious if you have. >> heitkamp: and i thought, "i have a responsibility not only to find somebody academically and intellectually qualified, but qualified by temperament, impartiality and by, you know, what we-- what we see, empathy." do you believe brett kavanaugh assaulted you? >> 100%. >> heitkamp: i think when senator durbin asked her how certain she was and she looked at him and she said, "i'm 100% certain," i believe her. >> pelley: the senators who have decided to vote in favor of

judge kavanaugh's nomination seem to believe that he was wrongfully accused. >> heitkamp: everybody's going to make their own judgment. and i have to tell you, my judgment on her experience is based on a lot of experience working with domestic assault victims, domestic violence victims. >> pelley: did you read the f.b.i. report? >> heitkamp: i did. but i didn't find the information there particularly enlightening. >> collins: even after the f.b.i. has interviewed everyone whom dr. ford has named as present that horrible night that she remembers, every single one of them, including her best friend, has no recollection of anything like this. >> pelley: democrat heitkamp and republican collins often meet in the middle on common ground they also share a political vulnerability. heitkamp is a democrat in conservative north dakota. collins is a republican in a state with many independent- minded voters.

your decision is not going to play well back home in maine. >> collins: that is likely true. i did not try to weigh a political calculus to this decision. it's too important for that. i just had to do what i think is right. >> pelley: a website went up over these last couple of weeks collecting funds for whoever your opponent may be in 2020. and the deal was that if you voted for kavanaugh, then the credit card pledges would be processed. if you voted against kavanaugh, they wouldn't process the credit card numbers. and something over $2 million was raised. >> collins: this is a classic quid pro quo as defined in our bribery laws. they are asking me to perform an

official act, and if i do not do what they want, $2 million plus is going to go to my opponent. i think that if our politics has come to the point where people are trying to buy votes and buy positions, then we are in a very sad place. >> pelley: collins doesn't face reelection for two years, but democrat heitkamp's situation is much more perilous. she's up for reelection now. and in august, judge kavanaugh's support in north dakota was running 60%. at this moment, about four weeks before the election, you are running behind your republican challenger in north dakota. a political consultant would've told you that voting for kavanaugh would've been better for you. >> heitkamp: yeah, i don't think there's any doubt about that. i think that the politically expedient vote here was a-- a "yes" vote. >> pelley: why not then? >> heitkamp: because this isn't about politics. this is about a lifetime

appointment on the supreme court. this is about a responsibility that we have as leaders, a responsiblity that we have to exercise the judgement that we were sent here to exercise. i have too much respect for the institution of the supreme court. and i'm not going to be the person who makes a decision based on whether i get six more years in washington, d.c. i'm going to make the decision based on what i think about the institutions. >> pelley: that may make you rare in the senate. >> heitkamp: in 2000, when i was running for governor, i was diagnosed with breast cancer. and it was serious. you know, my doctor afterwards told me, "you have a 28% chance of living ten years." that was 18 years ago. and so i tell young people, i say, "you have you have two accounts. you have a bank account. but you have a time account. what are you going to do with your time? do i have work that i want to continue to do? absolutely. do i want to compromise my principles and my conscience for that job? no.

and do i want to compromise the supreme court for that job? no. >> pelley: you are rare for many reasons, but one of the reasons is you are a pro-choice republican. many of your opponents are going to say she's pro-choice, she's pro women's rights, and she just sent a man accused of sexual assault to the supreme court of the united states. >> collins: i would never vote for someone who had committed sexual assault, or who had lied about sexual assault, that's not a hard call for me. i would have voted "no" if i disbelieved judge kavanaugh. but given his denials and the lack of evidence that thisothink that it was fair to ruin the life of this distinguished judge and his family over allegations

that cannot be proven. >> pelley: there are many who believe that judge kavanaugh will be the vote that results in abortion becoming illegal in the united states. and i wonder if you're concerned about that. >> collins: i could not vote for a judge who had demonstrated hostility to roe v wade, because it would indicate a lack of respect for precedent. what judge kavanaugh told me, and he's the first supreme court nominee that i've interviewed, out of six, who has told me this, is that he views precedent not just as a legal doctrine, but as rooted in our constitution. >> on this vote, the ayes are 50, the nays are 48. the nomination of brett m. kavanaugh of maryland to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states is confirmed.

>> pelley: the vote was the closest for the confirmation of a supreme court justice since 1881. brett kavanaugh was sworn in hours later. the senate is left riven by partisanship. while across the street, the supreme court's new term will try to reconcile a shift in philosophical balance among the justices with the words carved above the door: "equal justice under law."

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>> wertheim: while you may not have heard of the author john green, be assured that the teenagers in your life have. he is america's answer to j.k. rowling, with his mega-bestsellers spawning blockbuster movies. green has become wildly popular thanks largely to his loyal teenage audience. green is also the rare literary talent who doubles as a

podcaster and a youtube star. his success stems from his intuitive understanding of adolescents-- his ability to meet them on their level, and on their devices. to those who consider today's teens a disaffected tribe, rarely glancing up from their phones and video games, john green offers a counter- narrative. let's talk about teenagers. >> john green: "60 minutes'" core audience, i understand. ( laughs ) >> wertheim: it's trending-- well, you know. you write a lot about teenagers. >> john green: yeah. >> wertheim: why this cohort? >> john green: they're doing so many things for the first time, and there's an intensity to that. you know, there's an intensity to falling in love for the first time, and also there's an intensity to asking the big questions about life and meaning, that just isn't matched anywhere else. >> wertheim: you've said before that adults underestimate teenagers. >> john green: well, i think sometimes teenagers maybe don't have the language to talk to us in ways that seem compelling to us. and maybe that makes it easy for

us to dismiss them or think of them as less intellectually curious or intellectually sophisticated than we are. but i don't think that's true at all. >> fan: i love the book, it's amazing. >> john green: aw, thank you so much. >> wertheim: john green's books, in the y.a., or young adult, genre dominate bestseller lists. and while the stories take place in the u.s., they echo worldwide, having been translated into 55 languages. >> wertheim: lithuanian, slovenian, croatian. >> john green: yeah, yeah. it's really wonderful to have your books travel to places you've never been. i mean, it's a weird but really beautiful experience. >> wertheim: his most famous book, "the fault in our stars," was a bestseller for more than three years... and adapted to a hit film in 2014, that grossed more than $300 million. tinged with tragedy, the story follows two teenagers with cancer who fall in love.

heavy, and heady, stuff for an adolescent audience. the subjects you deal with are quite weighty. death and suicide and cancer. a lot of teenagers haven't had these experiences per se, but these books resonate with them. how is that? >> john green: maybe lots of teenagers haven't had these particular experiences, but i do think they know of loss, and they know of grief, and they know of pain. maybe the particulars of an experience aren't universal, but the feelings are. >> okay, i'm going to need you to hit this button. >> wertheim: one reason he connects so well with teenagers? at age 41, green is still a kid at heart. >> i love how you're just staying in that corner. >> wertheim: his youthful spirit drives more than book sales. it made him a youtube star. >> john green: hi there, this is john green. >> hank green: and i'm hank green. and we are the vlogbrothers on youtube. >> wertheim: in 2007, the early days of youtube, john green and his kid brother hank began sharing videos as a way to stay in touch with each other. >> john green: good morning, hank, it's tuesday! >> hank green: good morning, john!

>> wertheim: in short order, and in lockstep with the growth of youtube, the greens' videos amassed a huge audience, now nearly a billion total views strong. this online video platform in turn fueled john green's readership. they play off each other. >> john green: yeah. in a way, they're different sides of the same coin, right? because what interests me really is the idea of connecting with a viewer or with a reader without having to, like, actually talk to them and look at them and all that. >> wertheim: this preference, green said, is the legacy of his own socially-awkward adolescence. who do you envision are your readers? >> john green: i don't envision a reader. >> wertheim: you don't? >> john green: i think in some ways i'm writing back to my high school self, to try to communicate things to him, to try to offer him some kind of comfort or consolation. >> wertheim: who was that guy? >> john green: i had a difficult time in high school. i wasn't a very good student and i had a lot of self-destructive impulses and i felt scared all

the time. >> wertheim: what were you scared of? >> john green: the short answer is everything. >> wertheim: he explores those fears in his most recent book, "turtles all the way down," a bestseller for 50 straight weeks since it debuted at number one. its theme: obsessive compulsive disorder, o.c.d., based on green's own. for this book, he obeyed that time-honored rule of the craft: write what you know. >> john green: i wanted to try to give people a glimpse of what it is. i wanted to try to put them, you know, at least a little bit inside of that experience. >> wertheim: you use the word "thought spiral." what does that mean? >> john green: the thing about a spiral is that it-- it goes on forever, right? like, if you zoom in on the spiral, it can keep tightening forever. and that for me is the nature of obsessive thought, that it's this inwardly-turning spiral that never actually has an end point. so it might be, i'm eating a

salad and it suddenly occurs to me that somebody might have bled into this salad. now, they probably didn't... >> wertheim: this is what you're thinking? >> john green: ...but this is what i'm thinking. and instead of being able to move on to a second thought, that thought just expands and expands and expands and expands. and then, i use compulsive behaviors to try to manage the worry and the overwhelmed-ness that that thought causes me. >> wertheim: so how do you get out of this coil, and how do you break this infinity? >> john green: i have a few strategies. i exercise, that's probably the biggest thing. exercise is pretty magical in my life. i don't enjoy it. ( laughs ) i don't relish the thought of going for a run, but it is very helpful, because i can't think. i do feel lucky to have some distance from it sometimes. >> wertheim: john green lives in indianapolis, where his life comes short on stress, long on anonymity. he and his wife, sarah urist green, a curator and online art

educator, are parents of a son, age eight, and daughter, five. sarah began reading his manuscripts when they started dating 14 years ago. >> sarah green: and i was really nervous, because i really liked john, and i knew that if the book was bad, it wasn't going to work. ( laughter ) >> wertheim: the relationship wasn't going to work. not, the book wasn't going to work. >> sarah green: no, no. the book might have worked or not, but i couldn't be dishonest about, about that, and if i didn't like it, sorry. >> john green: i mean, i'm super glad i didn't know that at the time. ( laughter ) i don't think i could've handled that pressure. >> wertheim: unfiltered criticism. >> sarah green: yeah, yeah. >> john green: yeah. >> wertheim: john, do you remember when you told sarah about your o.c.d.? >> john green: i don't know that it was an event so much as it was a process. and part of getting to know me was understanding that i had problems with anxiety. >> sarah green: there was never a moment where john kind of sat me down and said, "i have o.c.d." it was more of a gradual

process, where we were able to kind of put this label on it. and so i can't say that i would ever wish it to go away, because it's a-- it's a part of him. >> john green: i-- i'd like it to go away. ( laughs ) for the record. >> wertheim: so much so that, in 2015, fresh off the spectacular success of "the fault in our stars," green decided to take a chance and go off the anti- anxiety medication he'd been taking for years. >> wertheim: why did you do that? >> john green: well, because i bought into this old romantic lie that, in order to write well, you need to sort of, like, be free from all of these mind- altering substances or whatever. and the consequences were really dire, unfortunately. and, and i-- i'm lucky that they weren't catastrophic, but they were serious. and coming out of that experience, i found myself wanting to try to give some sort of form or structure, to this fear that i had lived with for my-- most of my life. >> hello, and welcome to the

annual nerdfighter gathering. >> wertheim: these john green fans call themselves "nerdfighters," part of a community that now includes hundreds of thousands of members around the world. the nerdfighters formed in response to green misreading the name of this video game, "aerofighters." >> john green: this game seems to be called "nerdfighters." that's my favorite kind of fighters. >> wertheim: what's a nerdfighter? >> john green: a nerdfighter is a person who fights for nerds. >> wertheim: not against nerds? >> john green: no. >> wertheim: these are empowered nerds. >> john green: yeah. obviously, we're pro-nerd. ( laughs ) really, what it's about is being enthusiastic. being nerdy is really about how you approach what you love. >> wertheim: unabashedly. >> john green: yeah. >> wertheim: all five of you, proud, unapologetic nerds. >> presley: oh, yeah, yep. >> ben: we take the name with pride. nerdfighters last june. they were attending the ninth annual vidcon, a youtube conference john and hank green created to help online video fans and creators meet in person. these five told us they were

especially grateful to john green for writing about his anxiety in "turtles all the way down." >> becky: it's reassuring, for sure. >> jack: for someone who does experience anxiety, he, like, articulates things i could never articulate before. which both, like, makes me feel seen but also helps me, like, understand and sort of, you know, feel better from different things. >> presley: yeah, there's this metaphor of a spiral in the book, and that was one of the most useful things i've ever come across in describing my own anxiety. and we use it in the house all time. and being around this community of people that was so loving really made me grow to be a better person than i would have without it. >> i am a home-schooled child, >> wertheim: this was her, presley alexander, when she was just seven years old. and she first came into the john green orbit, not by reading one of his books, but by watching him on "crash course." >> john green: hi there, my name is john green and this is "crash course," world history. and today... >> wertheim: the educational youtube series that he started

with his brother hank, in their manic signature style. >> john green: writing and the ability to read it are so-called markers of civilization. >> wertheim: the videos offer lessons in the humanities and sciences. >> john green: our nervous system is divided into two main networks that work in harmony. the central nervous system... >> wertheim: with more than eight million subscribers, they are now offered as part of the curriculum in classrooms around the country. on account of his popularity across platforms, green cuts a figure he never would have imagined when he was a teenager: something akin to a rock star. >> wertheim: i want to know what your high school self would have thought, if, if they saw you now. >> john green: my high school would be very-- very happy and excited. ( laughs ) i'm embarrassed to admit. i wish that weren't the case. >> hank green: that's a great-- that's a great way to put it. i agree completely. >> wertheim: the green brothers are exceptionally supportive of each other, especially when it comes to john's o.c.d., described so vividly in his

latest book. "turtles all the way down." what was it like for you to read that? >> hank green: it did help me understand john better. and, and, but-- but in general, be more empathetic toward people who deal with anxiety and o.c.d. >> wertheim: what'd you learn about him? >> hank green: the extent to which sometimes he is at the mercy of his own mind. >> wertheim: but did it cause you to re-examine or re-assess moments in your childhood? >> hank green: yeah, i mean, there-- there have definitely been times in, you know, when john had a less stable life where i think, like, the family was worried about him. you know, those, the-- the-- >> john green: with good reason. ( laughter ) >> hello! hi, everybody. >> wertheim: lately, there's a lot less to worry about. with his multimedia, multi- million-dollar empire, john green is using his pen, his keyboard and his video camera to normalize teenage social awkwardness and also to de-stigmatize mental illness. you've said that it's important for young people to be able to see successful, productive

adults challenged by mental illness. >> john green: yeah. >> wertheim: expand on that. >> john green: well, i have a really wonderful life. i have a really rich, fulfilling life. i also have a pretty serious, chronic mental health problem. and those aren't mutually exclusive. and the truth is that lots of people have chronic mental health problems, and still have good lives. >> the john green glossary explained. >> dftba stands for what? >> it stands for don't forget to be awesome. >> go to 60minutesovertime.com. that can disrupt your life for weeks. in severe cases, pneumococcal pneumonia can put you in the hospital. it may take weeks to recover making you miss out on the things you enjoy most.

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>> stahl: today, when chefs can be as famous as movie stars, and their creations in the kitchen as admired as original works of art, there are few who rival the success and celebrity of massimo bottura. his restaurant, osteria francescana, has three michelin stars and ranks number one on this year's list of "the world's 50 best restaurants." it's located in northern italy in a city called modena, where the great tenor, luciano pavarotti, was born. when we went to modena to meet chef bottura, we were struck by how operatic he is... >> massimo bottura: imagine, imagine, imagine, dream. you have to dream about food, okay? so-- >> stahl: do you dream about food? >> bottura: i always dream about food. i always dream. >> stahl: we first met massimo bottura shopping for food in modena, the home of italy's finest balsamic vinegar and parmesan cheese. he buys the freshest vegetables,

like green tomatoes, that he likes to top off with 25-year- old balsamic vinegar. >> bottura: are you ready? >> stahl: i can't wait. >> bottura: okay. it's an experience that is going to stay with you for the rest of your life. i'm telling you that. >> stahl: this is a huge moment, massimo. >> bottura: yeah, it's a huge moment for you. >> stahl: the whole thing, just like that? >> bottura: just one bite. and close your eyes, connect your mental palate, and understand. your perception, your receptors are talking to you right now. >> stahl: there are so many different things gng on y h.n'believ. it is. complexity. >> stahl: and that's his signature as a chef... and what's he making? toasting rice, with, look, orange juice. >> stahl: ...dishes that are complex mixtures of unexpected flavors. >> bottura: due persone, due mini-soupe, no marza.

>> crew: no marza! >> stahl: in his kitchen at osteria francescana, he oversees a staff of 35, as they build his beautiful, avant-garde masterpieces that he says are inspired by contemporary art. his creations are like canvasses, and he christens them. he calls this "camouflage," made of wild hare, juniper berries, and cocoa powder. >> stahl: oh, that's spectacular. some of his dishes are beautiful, some are whimsical. and then, there's his version of popular italian cuisine. >> stahl: that's chicken cacciatore? >> bottura: so, this is chicken cacciatore. >> stahl: oh my god. you wouldn't recognize most of his italrunchyt bottura: spaghetti with tomato, spaghetti with parmigiana, spaghetti with fresh herbs. >> stahl: bottura is one of the most successful chefs in the so-called deconstruction school, where food is presented like abstract art.

what do you call this dish? >> bottura: ah, i don't know. >> stahl: his culinary creations are rooted in the traditions of northern italy and his hometown, modena, an ancient city of narrow streets and grand piazzas, where they've been making parmesan cheese and balsamic vinegar the same way for centuries. it's where bottura's love of food began, when he was just a little boy, hiding under the kitchen table. >> bottura: i remember my grandmother was rolling pasta. in the meantime, what i was dog, i was steg the tortellini from-- from under the table, and eat the raw tortellini. >> stahl: that's how you were beginning to develop your palate, was from raw tortellini. >> bottura: i think so. yeah. from a raw tortellini, you can understand a lot. you can understand the amount of spices they use, the amount of parmigiano, the amount of ham, you know, those kind of things.

>> stahl: even as a little kid. >> bottura: balance. balance. >> stahl: how old are you at that point? you're a kid. >> bottura: yeah, like seven, six. >> stahl: and you're falling in love with food. >> bottura: in that moment. >> stahl: yeah. >> bottura: exactly. >> stahl: he started cooking for his friends when he was in high school, but his father wanted him to become a lawyer in the family's lucrative fuel business. >> bottura: i have to show my dad he was wrong. because he tried to convince me not to get into that business. >> stahl: of being a chef. >> bottura: yeah. >> stahl: he didn't respect that as a serious profession. >> bottura: he didn't, no. no, no, no. no, no, he didn't. >> stahl: no more money from daddy. >> bottura: nope. >> stahl: that was it. >> bottura: no, no. that was it. >> stahl: cut you off. and you're saying to yourself, "i have to show you." >> bottura: i don't want to vee" is a very strong word. it's more like-- >> stahl: show him-- show that you were right. >> bottura: show that i was right. >> stahl: but he wasn't right, right away. when he and his american wife

lara gilmore opened osteria francescana in 1995, amidst all that tradition in modena, they were offering bottura's minimalist rendition of a bowl of tortellini-- just six little pieces of pasta. >> stahl: so, six little, tiny, and that was it. >> lara gilmore: so, the biggest provocation of all. >> stahl: yeah. ( chuckle ) >> gilmore: a tortellini is something-- it's comfort food for, for modenese. it's like a religion. if you don't believe in god, you believe in tortellini. but you don't want six. you want a nice, big abundant bowl of tortellini with the hot broth. and he was serving this sort of warm, room-temperature broth gel and the tortellini were there. there were six of them. and the modenese were, like, putting their hands, like-- "what did i come here for? ( laughs ) why am i here?" >> stahl: food critics asked themselves the same question. >> bottura: a very important modenese food critic came, and he... >> gilmore: the modenese food critic. >> bottura: ...and he-- the modenese food critic-- ( laughter ) came and eat at our restaurant. like the-- the--

>> stahl: oh god. ( laughter ) >> gilmore: of course, the review was terrible. >> bottura: the review was, like, "please don't go there." >> stahl: oh! >> bottura: "don't go there." >> stahl: and hardly anyone did. his food was seen as a sacrilege in a country that reveres mothers and their home-cooking. did you ever say to yourself, "okay, i'm going right back to the old italian cooking? i can do it. i know how to do it." >> bottura: never. >> stahl: never? >> bottura: no, you can't do that. >> stahl: but after six years of bad reviews and empty tables, he gave in and introduced a handful of traditional italian dishes, including an old- fashioned tagliatelle. and then, a prominent national food critic happened by, ordered the tagliatelle... and wrote-- >> bottura: "these are the best tagliatelle in the world." >> stahl: he said that. >> gilmore: yes. >> stahl: so that turned everything around. >> bottura: totally. >> stahl: you are known as the maestro. >> bottura: now.

before, they want to crucify me in the main piazza. now, they call me maestro. that's the difference. >> stahl: some of the maestro's dishes are improvisations born out of accidents, like his "oops! i dropped the lemon tart." >> bottura: that's a classic. ( laughter ) >> stahl: the story begins when his pastry chef, taka, was making a lemon tart. >> bottura: i saw taka completely white. he drop one of the two tart in the plate, upside down, just like that. >> stahl: oh, god. >> bottura: taka was, like, ready to kill himself. and, and i said, "taka! taka, no! please, no." >> stahl: "don't kill yourself." >> bottura: "don't, don't. look at that. that lemon tart is so beautiful that we have to serve the second one exactly the first one." we did it. , erfect way, the imperfection. we smashed the other tart exactly as the first one.

i can't believe-- i can't believe we did that. if i think now, i-- like, we were crazy. i was like, totally out of mind. >> stahl: "oops, i dropped the lemon tart" is jackson pollack on a plate! and it's one of the most popular dishes on a tasting menu of 12 courses that, with wine, can cost more than $500 a person. they serve lunch and dinner five days a week, and it's always booked. reservations open three months in advance, and fill up in minutes. >> bottura: are you prepare for the best salad of your life? >> stahl: he invited us to sample some of his other signature dishes in his well- stocked wine cellar. >> bottura: caesar salad in bloom. >> stahl: those are flowers. >> bottura: all flowers, edible flowers. >> stahl: all edible flowers? >> bottura: 27 elements in that dish. >> stahl: it takes two chefs to build the salad, leaf by leaf, petal by petal.

and for this dish, it takes a splash of sea water. >> bottura: this is seawater transformed into paper. >> stahl: you make paper out of seawater? >> bottura: yes. >> stahl: it may not look like it, but this is bottura's filet of sole, topped off with wisps of dehydrated seawater. he calls it "mediterranean combustion." >> stahl: how am i ever going to eat normal food again, ever? >> bottura: but you feel how light you feel. >> stahl: very light. but totally delicious. how long did it take you to create this one dish? was it months? was it-- ? >> bottura: 32 years. >> stahl: come on. >> bottura: 32 years of experience. >> stahl: now 56, after all his hard work, bottura is riding high-- sometimes on his customized ducati motorcycle. but a few years ago, he began to feel something was missing in his life, that serving fancy food to international foodies wasn't enough. so, like other celebrity chefs,

he began to think about helping the poor, by feeding them. >> gilmore: this is late 2013. we had just sort of- one year into having our third michelin star. we had worked 20 years to get. and i'm thinking, "now, you want to start doing this?" i thought it was a terrible idea. tahl: t she relented, and helped him open a number of what he calls refettorios- kind of souped-up soup kitchens. but he didn't want them to feel like down-and-out, stand-in-line cafeterias. so, partnering with local charities, he created warm, inviting dining rooms in old abandoned theaters or unused spaces in churches, where the working poor and homeless italians and refugees from africa sit side-by-side, with volunteers who serve them three- course meals, like in high- quality restaurants. the food, donated by local grocery stores, would've been

thrown out because it's slightly-damaged or near its sell-by date. >> bottura: we are italian, so we're going to make pasta. >> stahl: he's opened six refettorios so far: in london, paris, rio de janeiro and three in italy, with more to come. where did that inspiration come from? >> bottura: the numbers, are math. numbers: 33% of the world production are wasted every year. 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted every year. you know, think about one trillion of apples goes in the garbage.k ho, apple pie you could create with those trillions of, you know. that's insane! >> stahl: the man who has, for

decades, insisted on the oldest balsamic, the finest parmigiano, the freshest tomatoes, now realizes there's salvation in discarded leftovers. if cooked well, they can nourish the poor, as he says-- by filling their stomachs and lifting their spirits. >> massimo bottura, number one. >> stahl: and his, as well. >> bottura: it's absolutely necessary to give back some of the lucky life you're living. so this is about giving back. it's what we need. we need dreams. if you don't dream and you don't dream big, you know, you cannot change the world. >> cbs sports h.imment is presented by progressive insurance. i'm james brown with scores from the n.f.l. today. cleveland's baker mayfield gets his first career win as a starter.

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