Taste: My Life Through Food

An acting memoir? A cookbook? Both!

Food is not just an important part of my life. It is, in principle, my life. Food keeps me grounded and leads me on adventures. It both calms me and challenges me. It is the material that made me creative and homely. Food allowed me to express my love for people and to meet people I later loved.

Before becoming “the same actor” from The Devil Wears Prada, The Cute Bones, or The Hunger Games, as well as the creator of the perfect Negroni, Stanley Tucci grew up in an Italian-American family that spent every evening at the table. This book is his reflections on the relationship between life and food, a gastronomic journey into the past, both happy and painful, written with love and generously seasoned with his trademark humor.

Why you should buy it:

This book combines interesting facts about the actor's life, touching stories from childhood, and funny portraits of family and friends - and all this through the prism of food.
"Taste" also contains more than 20 recipes for various dishes, both familiar and quite exotic. These are cocktails, meat and fish dishes, and, of course, pasta. This is not just a selection of favorite recipes - behind each of them there is a certain story and interesting experience.