Stanley Tucci 2 Books Collection Set (Taste and What I Ate in One Year [Hardback])

This two-book collection brings together Stanley Tucci’s food writing in Taste and What I Ate in One Year. Across both titles, Tucci reflects on meals shared with family, friends and strangers, drawing on experiences from home kitchens to film sets and travel.

In Taste, he looks back on growing up in an Italian American family where evenings were spent around the table, and revisits the passion for Italian cuisine explored in Searching For Italy. What I Ate in One Year follows a different approach, recording twelve months of eating in restaurants and kitchens, during press junkets, and at home and abroad, capturing the variety of settings and company that shape everyday life.

Included titles

• Taste
• What I Ate in One Year (Hardback)

Key details

• Two-book collection set by Stanley Tucci
• Includes Taste and What I Ate in One Year
• What I Ate in One Year is in hardback format

Synopses

Taste

Tucci shares stories from a lifetime of meals, from family dinners in an Italian American household to experiences connected with films such as Julie & Julia. The book is filled with anecdotes about growing up, falling in love across the table, and cooking for his family, reflecting on food and life through both memorable and imperfect dishes.

What I Ate in One Year (Hardback)

Food has long been central to Tucci’s life, from stracciatella soup in the shadow of the Pantheon to marinara sauce made between rehearsals and costume fittings. Here, he records a year of eating across restaurants, kitchens, film sets and travel, sometimes with friends and family and sometimes alone. The meals range from duck à l’orange shared with fellow actors to home-made pizza with his children, and multi-generational family dishes made and eaten together.