Tucci, S. (2021). Taste: My life through food. Gallery Books.
Stanley Tucci is an actor and a filmmaker. He brought his love of food in the series Searching for Italy where he took viewers on a food tour of Italy.
I tend to like books that talk about food and Stanley Tucci's memoir was wonderful. His description of pasta left my mouth watering to the point that I made spaghetti that very night. He begins by talking about his mother's love of food: "there was a daily, almost obsessive focus on the quality of the ingredients, their careful preparation the passing on of family recipes, and cultural and culinary traditions." Weaving stories, recipes, and descriptions of food experiences and traditions we learn about Tucci as a young man, actor, and family man. We also learn about his values. For example, his mother exhorted, "You can't know if you don't like something if you haven't had it. You have to try it. You have to try everything." He described food as "connective tissue" bringing people together. Tucci noted, "if you're a food lover, there is always something gratifying about connecting with the vegetable, the fruit, or whatever animal, whether you've grown it, raised it, or hunted it, before it becomes your food. But to make that connection and then connect with someone else simultaneously is an exalted, almost spiritual level of foodie intimacy." He reserved his experience of throat cancer until the chapter. It was as though, the prior chapters were the prelude to fully understanding how threatening oropharyngeal cancer would be to a man who clearly loves food. His diagnosis meant that for almost two years, he primarily ate easy to swallow foods. Reflecting, he said: "Food at once grounded me and took me to other places. It comforted me and challenged me. It was part of the fabric that made up my creative self and my domestic self."
This would be a wonderful book to discussion food culture, the sociology of food, and hospitality - food as a weaver of the social fabric.
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Tucci, S. (2021). Taste: My life through food. Gallery Books.Stanley Tucci is an actor and a filmmaker. He brought his love of food in the series Searching for Italy where he took viewers on a food tour of Italy.I tend to like books that talk about food and Stanley Tucci's memoir was wonderful. His description of pasta left my mouth watering to the point that I made spaghetti that very night. He begins by talking about his mother's love of food: "there was a daily, almost obsessive focus on the quality of the ingredients, their careful preparation the passing on of family recipes, and cultural and culinary traditions." Weaving stories, recipes, and descriptions of food experiences and traditions we learn about Tucci as a young man, actor, and family man. We also learn about his values. For example, his mother exhorted, "You can't know if you don't like something if you haven't had it. You have to try it. You have to try everything." He described food as "connective tissue" bringing people together. Tucci noted, "if you're a food lover, there is always something gratifying about connecting with the vegetable, the fruit, or whatever animal, whether you've grown it, raised it, or hunted it, before it becomes your food. But to make that connection and then connect with someone else simultaneously is an exalted, almost spiritual level of foodie intimacy." He reserved his experience of throat cancer until the chapter. It was as though, the prior chapters were the prelude to fully understanding how threatening oropharyngeal cancer would be to a man who clearly loves food. His diagnosis meant that for almost two years, he primarily ate easy to swallow foods. Reflecting, he said: "Food at once grounded me and took me to other places. It comforted me and challenged me. It was part of the fabric that made up my creative self and my domestic self."This would be a wonderful book to discussion food culture, the sociology of food, and hospitality - food as a weaver of the social fabric.
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Tucci, S. (2021). Taste: My life through food. Gallery Books.
Stanley Tucci is an actor and a filmmaker. He brought his love of food in the series Searching for Italy where he took viewers on a food tour of Italy.
I tend to like books that talk about food and Stanley Tucci's memoir was wonderful. His description of pasta left my mouth watering to the point that I made spaghetti that very night. He begins by talking about his mother's love of food: "there was a daily, almost obsessive focus on the quality of the ingredients, their careful preparation the passing on of family recipes, and cultural and culinary traditions." Weaving stories, recipes, and descriptions of food experiences and traditions we learn about Tucci as a young man, actor, and family man. We also learn about his values. For example, his mother exhorted, "You can't know if you don't like something if you haven't had it. You have to try it. You have to try everything." He described food as "connective tissue" bringing people together. Tucci noted, "if you're a food lover, there is always something gratifying about connecting with the vegetable, the fruit, or whatever animal, whether you've grown it, raised it, or hunted it, before it becomes your food. But to make that connection and then connect with someone else simultaneously is an exalted, almost spiritual level of foodie intimacy." He reserved his experience of throat cancer until the chapter. It was as though, the prior chapters were the prelude to fully understanding how threatening oropharyngeal cancer would be to a man who clearly loves food. His diagnosis meant that for almost two years, he primarily ate easy to swallow foods. Reflecting, he said: "Food at once grounded me and took me to other places. It comforted me and challenged me. It was part of the fabric that made up my creative self and my domestic self."
This would be a wonderful book to discussion food culture, the sociology of food, and hospitality - food as a weaver of the social fabric.
Stanley Tucci is an actor and a filmmaker. He brought his love of food in the series Searching for Italy where he took viewers on a food tour of Italy.
I tend to like books that talk about food and Stanley Tucci's memoir was wonderful. His description of pasta left my mouth watering to the point that I made spaghetti that very night. He begins by talking about his mother's love of food: "there was a daily, almost obsessive focus on the quality of the ingredients, their careful preparation the passing on of family recipes, and cultural and culinary traditions." Weaving stories, recipes, and descriptions of food experiences and traditions we learn about Tucci as a young man, actor, and family man. We also learn about his values. For example, his mother exhorted, "You can't know if you don't like something if you haven't had it. You have to try it. You have to try everything." He described food as "connective tissue" bringing people together. Tucci noted, "if you're a food lover, there is always something gratifying about connecting with the vegetable, the fruit, or whatever animal, whether you've grown it, raised it, or hunted it, before it becomes your food. But to make that connection and then connect with someone else simultaneously is an exalted, almost spiritual level of foodie intimacy." He reserved his experience of throat cancer until the chapter. It was as though, the prior chapters were the prelude to fully understanding how threatening oropharyngeal cancer would be to a man who clearly loves food. His diagnosis meant that for almost two years, he primarily ate easy to swallow foods. Reflecting, he said: "Food at once grounded me and took me to other places. It comforted me and challenged me. It was part of the fabric that made up my creative self and my domestic self."
This would be a wonderful book to discussion food culture, the sociology of food, and hospitality - food as a weaver of the social fabric.
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