The Tucci Table by Stanley Tucci: Cooking with Family and Friends

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His recipes are fun in the sense that the instructions and ingredients may contain "a glug of olive oil, followed by a good pinch of fresh parsley.

The Tucci Table | Book by Stanley Tucci, Felicity Blunt The Tucci Table | Book by Stanley Tucci, Felicity Blunt

The photography in this book is lovely, and while there's not a picture for every recipe, there are a lot of photographs. Stanley Tucci is an accomplished actor, he is also an accomplished chef; so the writing of a cook book is not so far out of the realm of what should be expected. Flowing between ancient and contemporary, rural and cosmopolitan, and English and Italian, Tucci investigates familiar and lesser-known dishes and customs.

Academy Award–nominee Stanley Tucci is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award–winning actor who has also been nominated for a Tony and a Grammy, among countless other critical and professional accolades.

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The Tucci Table is full of recipes that are based on simple, quality ingredients and traditional flavors. The series is a little bit to dispel myths, bring clarity, and show people that Italy is not always warm and sunny and all about the sea and tomatoes,” says Tucci, who can’t resist the red fruit, and feels more at home in the colder climate of the north. Some cookbooks are visually inspiring but don't deliver on the recipe front and are cool in tone; others are like a glimpse into someone's life - warm and inviting, with recipes that make you want to join the family party.

This is a book for confident cooks, more casual cooks who like to go more by instinct than exact measurements. Italian and British food at their finest, complete with easy-to-follow recipes and suggested ingredient brands + alternatives for those of us who don’t live near a true gourmet market who don’t want to invest in an expensive seasoning for just 1 recipe. With my weakness for cookbooks, I could not pass up The Tucci Table: Cooking with Family and Friends by Stanley Tucci.

The Tucci Table : Cooking With Family and Friends - Google Books The Tucci Table : Cooking With Family and Friends - Google Books

But mostly, he feasted on his mother’s expanding repertoire of American, Calabrian, and Florentine recipes. So they got out the hacksaw and tried to cut off the pig's head, when their children came home from school to see the carnage. But if you think that a cookbook with a celebrity name attached to it is all that The Tucci Table is then you are about to be wonderfully surprised. When people congregate together, friendships start, ideas and emotions are exchanged, and everything feels better. There are also lovely photographs of some pretty tasty foods, some of my favorites being emily's chicken noodle soup, potato and leek soup with fried parsley, cannellini bean and tuna salad with red onion, pasta with mushrooms, basic risotto, israeli couscous with slow-roasted tomatoes and caramelized onions, and always a favorite, fried green tomatoes.The time-tested recipes include pasta alla bottarga, mushroom-stuffed trout, pork chops with onions and mustard sauce, barbeque chicken wings, and much, much more! 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's a fair bit of humor in this book as well, which made it very easy to flip through for recipes. 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.