Stanley Tucci
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Stanley Tucci is the actor who turned regional Italian cooking into appointment television, first with Big Night, then with his Italy travel series and the bestselling memoir Taste.
- Regional connection
- Calabrian roots, raised in Westchester, New York
- Food on screen
- The timpano in Big Night (1996) — a drum of pasta, egg and meat cut open at the table — is still the most requested Italian-American dish in film.
Why the food connection is credible
- Co-wrote and co-directed Big Night, the film that made timpano famous
- Wrote The Tucci Cookbook and the memoir Taste: My Life Through Food
- Hosted a CNN travel series touring Italy region by region, then a follow-up series
- Filmed a widely shared lockdown Negroni video that pushed the drink back into fashion