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Book Review...

Taste: My Life Through Food as you devour these pages at a hungry pace. (Tucci also through his mouth
assumes you won’t mind his occasional use of the four- again. Having
By Nils A. Shapiro letter “F___” word whenever he deems it appropriate!) lost his first wife,
Of the many hats fit Born in Westchester County, a suburb of New York Kathryn, to cancer,
to be worn by Stanley City, Tucci was raised by parents who had immigrated he describes
Tucci—actor, writer, from the Italian town of Calabria and carried on the old the experience
producer, director, with traditions, most especially the closeness of family and of fac i ng t ha t
70 films to his credit plus the importance of homemade meals from the recipes of medical diagnosis,
scores of performances in the old country and enjoyed together around the kitchen the decisions he
television series, Broadway table ... with a special fuss on holidays. had to make, and
shows, Grammy-winning The early pages of this book warm the reader with the six months of
recordings and more—it’s Tucci’s memories of his days growing up among family treatment.
a safe bet that the hat he is and friends, and when he describes the many dishes such While Tucci’s
most comfortable wearing, as Ragu Tucci, Spaghetti with Lentils, Timpano, or a memoir ends
and most enjoys, is the white chef’s toque. deceptively simple-sounding Tomato Salad, he presents be fore t he
That is abundantly clear to anyone who has the the recipes right there in the book for you to try! production of his
good fortune to experience Tucci’s delicious and richly In all, there are almost two dozen recipes included latest television
rewarding memoir that quickly, and deservedly, landed in these pages, most of them his family’s own favorites, success, we know
on the national bestseller lists and has been there for the but he has added several from among his world-famous the result of such
past several months. restaurant chef friends, and added his versions of such treatment from the fact that he recently took home an
I had not realized that this is actually Tucci’s third drinks as a Negroni up, an old-fashioned, and the martini. Emmy for his six-part television documentary series,
published book, the first two having been The Tucci One friend from his high school days, Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci: Searching For Italy, in which he tours the
Cookbook and The Tucci Table. But, as the opening text is the son of actors George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst, regions of that country bringing viewers a taste of their
of this new book’s dustcover’s flyleaf explains, “From who, when she was starring on Broadway, got the two famous foods and cultures.
award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci young men roles as soldiers in her play. That was in 1982, To say that I devoured this book after just a few bites
comes an intimate and charming memoir of his life in Tucci’s start in show business after he had majored in of the first several pages in an understatement. I finished
and out of the kitchen.” drama in college. its 286 pages in only two sittings — and there are several
I have italicized the above words because they are Since then, this formidable talent has racked up more good reasons.
what is the very heart of this book. While food has always than 35 nominations at such wide-ranging festivals as To begin with, Tucci has a self-deprecating sense
been a big part of his life—from his childhood growing the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Emmys, Tonys, of humor that is quite charming. The following brief
up in a warm, loving immigrant Italian family to the Grammys, Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild, Film excerpt that ends the book’s Introduction section offers
world travels made possible by his star-studded career— Critics Circle and others, and he has taken home top prize an example of this, and makes him such an endearing
there is so much more to this man, and it is reflected in 14 of those times. companion in print that one can’t help but feel he must be
the down-to-earth, easygoing writing style and sense of As one would expect in a book about as prolific a fun guy to know, and wish that you could spend some
humor that cannot help but give you the feeling you are an actor as Tucci, he counts many A-listers among his time with him in person over a few good meals:
having a deeply personal conversation with a close friend personal friends, and they turn up in these pages from time focusing on food than I do on acting, as is evidenced by
“... I probably spend more time thinking about and
to time, but only in appropriate and interesting settings
It’s The Law! during discussions of career experiences that make it clear some of my recent performances; it seems appropriate
that this primary passion take yet another form: that of a
he is not into name-dropping just for the sake of it.
But Taste is more than just a story of a life filled with memoir of sorts. The following pages offer a taste of such
Did You Know That, pleasure and success. Tucci’s first wife, Kathryn, whom a memoir. I hope you find them palatable. (More puns to
he married in 1995 and with whom he had three children,
follow.)”
In Florida… died of cancer in 2009. Secondly, I myself was born in The Bronx, a borough
A little over a year later, actress Emily Blunt, with of New York City, and, together with my brother Don,
By Adam S. Gumson, Esq. whom Tucci had appeared in an earlier film, introduced was raised by deeply loving parents in the same kind of
If a child support him to her sister, Felicity, an agent residing in London. tight, close-knit family, with nearby grandparents, uncles,
order has been violated, They got to know each other and were married in 2012. aunts, cousins, almost always enjoyed home-cooked meals
the nonpaying party may With her two children from a previous marriage, theirs is from European Jewish recipes ... so I related completely
be in contempt of court now a family of seven. Tucci, who despises Los Angeles to Tucci’s descriptions of his growing-up years.
if the failure to pay is and avoids it as much as possible, now calls London home. And, finally, I can only add that the very first pages of
deemed willful by the court. Knowing all of the above about Stanley Tucci, what this book after the Introduction and the book’s very last
However, even if one party do you think would be a terrible punishment to inflict pages are brilliantly tied together in a way that brought
isn’t paying, he/she still has on him? At Christmastime of 2017, Tucci was diagnosed tears to my eyes as I closed the cover ... and just sat there
a right to see his/her child with a large cancerous tumor at the base of his tongue. for a while, so grateful for having gotten to know this very
so the other party cannot Surgery would mean that he could never eat nor taste special man. You should do the same.
deny time sharing due to
nonpayment.
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