Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy

 

Simply scrumptious!! Stunning food and locales!!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Tucci:_Searching_for_Italy

< Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy is an American travel and food show which premiered on February 14, 2021, on CNN. The series follows Academy Award-nominee Stanley Tucci, who travels around Italy visiting each region and exploring their cultures, cuisine and history.[1]

The series has received seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning Emmys for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series in 2021 and 2022.[2] Its second season premiered on May 1, 2022.[3]

CNN canceled the show in December 2022 as part of the network's revamp and canceling all original programming because of Warner Bros. Discovery's cost cuts, Tucci says that he will continue to do the show without them. >

 

Series 1 (2021)

1 Naples and the Amalfi Coast

2 Rome

3 Bologna

4 Milan

5 Tuscany

6 Sicily

 

Series 2 (2022)

7 Venice

8 Piedmont

9 Umbria

10 London

11 Calabria

12 Sardinia

13 Puglia

14 Liguria

 

https://edition.cnn.com/shows/stanley-tucci-searching-for-italy

 

 

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/the-name-s-orlick-why-stanley-tucci-nails-the-spy-who-loves-nuance-20230501-p5d4i5.html

 

regards Ian

starts on SBS Thurs 13 July 8:30pm!

 

Was an enjoyable series, well worth watching.

It is not Italy, but it might be close.

 

https://www.mercatocentrale.com.au/il-mercato-centrale-melbourne-celebrating-food-culture-and-community/

 

Friday is Date Lunch with the wife. I'm calling into Mercato today for a look. We have been to the Firenze version, which is brilliant. I think we ate there three times when we last visited Firenze.

 

Regards Cazzesman

 

 

great background reading

 

Taste: Stanley Tucci

 

https://www.penguin.com.au/books/taste-9780241501009

 

< From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and irresistible memoir of life in and out of the kitchen

Before Stanley Tucci became a household name with The Devil Wears Prada, The Hunger Games, and the perfect Negroni, he grew up in an Italian American family that spent every night around the table. Taste is an intimate reflection on the intersection of food and life, filled with anecdotes about growing up in Westchester, NY, preparing for and filming the foodie films Big Night and Julie & Julia, falling in love over dinner, and teaming up with his wife to create conversation-starting meals for their children. Each morsel of this gastronomic journey through good times and bad, five-star meals and burnt dishes, is as heartfelt and delicious as the last. Written with Stanley's signature wry humour and nostalgia, Taste is a heartwarming read for anyone who knows the power of a home-cooked meal. >

 

Regards Ian

 

On 07/01/2025 at 11:51 AM, Ian McP said:

great background reading

 

Taste: Stanley Tucci

 

https://www.penguin.com.au/books/taste-9780241501009

 

< From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and irresistible memoir of life in and out of the kitchen

Before Stanley Tucci became a household name with The Devil Wears Prada, The Hunger Games, and the perfect Negroni, he grew up in an Italian American family that spent every night around the table. Taste is an intimate reflection on the intersection of food and life, filled with anecdotes about growing up in Westchester, NY, preparing for and filming the foodie films Big Night and Julie & Julia, falling in love over dinner, and teaming up with his wife to create conversation-starting meals for their children. Each morsel of this gastronomic journey through good times and bad, five-star meals and burnt dishes, is as heartfelt and delicious as the last. Written with Stanley's signature wry humour and nostalgia, Taste is a heartwarming read for anyone who knows the power of a home-cooked meal. >

 

Regards Ian

 

I'm glad I read the reviews of "What I ate in one year". I'm going to borrow it from the library instead. I believe the first few pages are the best of the book, by all accounts.

On 16/01/2025 at 10:28 AM, Cloth Ears said:

I'm glad I read the reviews of "What I ate in one year". I'm going to borrow it from the library instead. I believe the first few pages are the best of the book, by all accounts.

Referring to his Taste book, wait till you read about the health problems he had to endure, luckily he has fully recovered!

Edited January 20, 20251 yr by Ian McP

On 16/01/2025 at 10:28 AM, Cloth Ears said:

I'm glad I read the reviews of "What I ate in one year". I'm going to borrow it from the library instead. I believe the first few pages are the best of the book, by all accounts.

Yes, doesn't sound that exciting a read

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/15/what-i-ate-in-one-year-stanley-tucci-review

 

recommend Taste

Stanley has a new show Tucci In Italy on Disney+

 

https://www.disneyplus.com/en-au/browse/entity-68fcadba-4a10-41ed-8aa5-67fa24ebc372#:~:text=LifestyleDocuseries-,GET DISNEY+,Starring:Stanley Tucci

 

< Stanley Tucci believes that the best way to understand a country is through its food. Nowhere is this truer than in Italy, where the shape of your pasta and the sauce you serve it with speak directly to identity—and differentiate each region from the next. In this new series, Stanley’s on a culinary quest to explore the connection between the food, the land and the people of the country he loves. >

 

 

My next Italian Trip is just going to follow his trail and go everywhere he went.   Just a glorious show.  Glorious.

 

Regards Cazzesman

...He vowed to continue the experience despite CNN dropping the original production after two series.  I guess when you're an A-list American actor finding a new production company isn't that hard :).  The Nat Geo series is simply a continuation under a new name and altered graphics, possibly the most sensible approach ever applied to a TV cultural food program given everything else about the design and execution is almost flawless.