About the Book
About the Book
What I Ate in One Year: (and related thoughts)
From award-winning actor and New York Times bestselling author Stanley Tucci, a deliciously unique memoir chronicling a year’s worth of meals.
Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tucci’s life: from stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheon, to marinara sauce cooked between scene rehearsals and costume fittings, to homemade pizza eaten with his children before bedtime.
Now, in WHAT I ATE IN ONE YEAR, Tucci records 12 months of eating --- in restaurants, kitchens, film sets, press junkets, at home and abroad, with friends, with family, with strangers, and occasionally just by himself.
Ranging from the mouth-wateringly memorable to the comfortingly domestic and to the infuriatingly inedible, the meals memorialized in this diary are a prism for him to reflect on the ways his life, and his family, are constantly evolving. Through food he marks --- and mourns --- the passing of time, the loss of loved ones, and steels himself for what is to come.
Whether it’s duck a l’orange eaten with fellow actors and cooked by singing Carmelite nuns, steaks barbequed at a gathering with friends, or meatballs made by his mother and son and shared at the table with three generations of his family, these meals give shape and add emotional richness to his days.
WHAT I ATE IN ONE YEAR is a funny, poignant, heartfelt and deeply satisfying serving of memories and meals and an irresistible celebration of the profound role that food plays in all our lives.
Audiobook available, read by Stanley Tucci
What I Ate in One Year: (and related thoughts)
- Publication Date: October 15, 2024
- Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction
- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Gallery Books
- ISBN-10: 1668055686
- ISBN-13: 9781668055687