soția mea, Kate, a fost o bucătăreasă minunată și generoasă. Copiii noștri - Isabel, Nicolo și Camilla - și cu mine am făcut tot ce ne stă în putință pentru a recrea multe dintre felurile sale de mâncare pentru că, din păcate, cu excepția câtorva, nu au fost niciodată notate. Când le gătim acum o păstrăm mereu prezentă în viețile noastre și, deși erau delicioase, ceea ce le-a făcut cu adevărat speciale a fost faptul că erau parte din ea și că ea le-a preparat pentru noi. Each recipe comes with a fun little story that introduces the people in Tucci's life, and makes you feel like you know them too. It made the recipes seem more personal, as though this book wasn't mass produced, but given to you as something special. There's a fair bit of humor in this book as well, which made it very easy to flip through for recipes. It's clear that this book was written in love. The series concludes in Sicily, where he finds Michelin-starred chef Tony Lo Coco, winemaker Ariana Occhipinti, and Princess Stefania di Raffadali in Palermo. He then travels hundreds of miles to the island of Lampedusa for sardines before arriving near the base of Mount Etna for a few more meals. Stanley Tucci is an actor, known for his roles in The Devil Wears Prada and Julie & Julia. In 1996, Tucci co-wrote and starred in a movie called Big Night, about two brothers who have one night to save their Italian restaurant. The movie has achieved cult status, earning many fans for Tucci and his costar Anthony Shaloub. From his late friend actress Natasha Richardson, whom he said was "an extraordinary cook who threw some of the best dinner parties I have ever attended', he shares her Pissaladiere, topped with anchovies, onions and olives.

This was a beautiful book that captures the magic of eating together as a celebration of what we mean to one another in the sharing a meal. Stanley Tucci says it best: Featuring 100 luscious new full-color photographs, The Tucci Table captures the true joys of family cooking. Buon appetito!Featuring family-friendly recipes and stunning photography, a cookbook filled with traditional and modern Italian dishes from New York Times bestselling author, beloved actor, and respected foodie Stanley Tucci. I've got to say, this book has a really wide variety of recipes, and a high volume of them too. This cookbook is a nice blend of "a little bit of everything", but draws heavily on Italian, British, and American cuisines. There's a lot of dishes in here that I was familiar with, which helped to set the familial tone that Stanley Tucci wished to give to the reader. Few actors can look so at ease or so convincingly distraught in restaurants, dining rooms, and bars on screen. His real-life obsession with cooking comes out in the “foodie” movies for which he is best known, like Big Night (1996), starring Isabella Rossellini and Tony Shalhoub, and Julie & Julia (2009) with Meryl Streep. Growing up, I remember watching movies with the bald guy with the glasses who looked super smart. As I started to select genres that I liked and prefered as one does with age, I was still able to find him in even the strangest of movie selections- of the top of my head, He was reassuring as the doctor in a movie I found utterly boring: The First Avenger, Captain America. He was the reassuring Head designer in that cult classic The Devil Wears Prada. He was frightening in a quiet and menacing way in The lovely Bones and for a while I was hesitant to watch anything else he was in - the mark of a great actor.

One of the things that’s fascinating about Italy is where it’s situated geographically, he says. “If you think about that alone— the influences over millennia, the topography, and the climate, how diverse it is from Lampedusa to the Alps — it’s just staggering. There aren’t many countries that have that kind of diversity.”

The recipes are carefully written so that they can be followed easily. But more than the food, there is a strong and powerful sense of family throughout.