What I Ate in One Year: and related thoughts by Stanley Tucci

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From Stanley Tucci, an award-winning actor and New York Times bestselling author, a deliciously unique memoir chronicling a year's worth of meals. Sharing food is one of the purest human acts. Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tuccis life from stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheon, to marinara sauce cooked between scene rehearsals and costume fittings, to home-made pizza eaten with his children before bedtime. Now, in What I Ate in One Year Tucci records twelve months of eating in restaurants, kitchens, film sets, press junkets, at home and abroad, with friends, with family, with strangers, and occasionally just by himself. Ranging from the mouth-wateringly memorable to the comfortingly domestic and to the infuriatingly inedible, the meals memorialized in this diary are a prism for him to reflect on the ways his life, and his family, are constantly evolving. Through food he marks and mourns the passing of time, the loss of loved ones, and steals himself for what is to come. Whether its duck a lorange eaten with fellow actors and cooked by singing Carmelite nuns, steaks barbequed at a gathering with friends, or meatballs made by his mother and son and shared at the table with three generations of his family, these meals give shape and add emotional richness to his days.…

  • Product Features

    • Stanley Tucci (Author)
    • Publisher: Gallery Books
    • Publication Date: 10-15-2024
    • Page Count: 368
    • Hardcover
    • Cookbooks
    • 6.3 (w) x 8.8(h) x 1.3 (d)
    • ISBN: 9781668055687
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3 months ago
from Henderson, NV

Travel and eat, through a book

I’ve enjoyed Stanley so much as an actor. Picked this book up on sale and really enjoyed the travels and outings. Need to go back and read previous books from him. Also inspired me to watch Searching for Italy.

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5 months ago
from California

Charming

Stanley Tucci is one of those celebrities who seems to be able to do anything: act, direct, produce, write – and, yes, cook and proselytize for good food, whether in Italy, the land of his ancestors, the United States, the land of his birth, or England, where he lives now. Those who watched Searching for Italy, in which Tucci traveled about that country eating and cooking the best dishes in each region will find his new book, What I Ate in One Year as delicious as any fresh pasta dish. The book does precisely as one would expect from the title: it's a foodie's diary, with accounts of excellent dishes wherever he found them, from sandwiches to elegant feasts in the best restaurants. Italian cuisine is the star player -- hardly a day passes without at least some pasta in it somewhere -- but Tucci also talks about eating Japanese, Eastern European and other cuisines with equal gusto. But perhaps the best part of the book is that Tucci doesn't limit himself to food. He talks about all sorts of love, from his love for his first wife (who died of cancer) and his current wife, his children, his parents, his friends. He talks about growing older. He talks about loss, and the fear of loss. He talks about ambition and celebrity and exercise and acting and the fleetingness of time. One comes away from the book wishing she were Tucci's friend, or at least could get an hour or so to sit in conversation with him over an excellent meal. The book is written in short chapters that should make it easier to stop and do something else when necessary, but which had the opposite effect on me: I kept thinking I'd read just one more short entry before doing this, that or the other, and easily found myself about 50 pages down the road before I could tear myself away. He is gently humorous, self-deprecating and charming. What I Ate in One Year was a joy to read.

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