Welcome to Litsy!

A warm, appreciative memoir that is as much a story about a love for food, and the power of food to connect us, as it is about Stanley Tucci himself. You won‘t like this if you don‘t love food and eating, but if you do, it‘s a humorous, gentle, sensory reading experience. Audio read by the author works here.

#two4tuesday @TheSpineView

1. Blueberries or peaches
2. I listened to the tagged book and it is like a love letter to food and sharing food with those you love!

@BethM @JenReadsAlot @peaKnit

This book was recommended to me by my book club friends. This is a perfect book for book loving foodies! Mix one dry sense of humor, a dollop or two of nostalgia, a large dose of insight, a handful of appreciation, and a penchant for honesty, and you end up with this delectable morsel of a book! It is impossible to listen to these sexy descriptions of food without wanting to cook and eat your way through this book. So be warned,(cont in comments)

Finished listening to this audiobook in such a cute little cafe.
This is definitely a memoir for foodies to enjoy. Tucci adores food and his descriptions of food and cooking are SO mouth watering. He shares memories around food from times spent with family, friends and on movie sets. He briefly covers his first wife‘s death and his own cancer diagnosis but this is not a memoir for sharing every emotion - and I appreciated his restraint. ⬇️

My review of this book can be found on my YouTube Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/qfSoptClOio

Enjoy!

#readingbracket2023 #nonfiction November @chasjjlee

#bookreport @Cinfhen

Finished Taste
Continued Don Quixote and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

#abouthollywood #pop23 @squirrelbrain @Cinfhen @Deblovestoread @RaeLovesToRead @Cortg @LeeRHarry @MissHel @Bluebird @AshleyHoss820 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

#weeklyforecast

Try to finish tagged, continue other 2.

1. For the most part, I do a smoothie for breakfast and a salad for lunch, so I guess dinner for the variety? :)

2. Taste by Stanley Tucci. I don't really have an emotional attachment to food, so stories that involve food don't interest me much, but I liked the way Tucci interwove the food and recipes into his life, and the revelation of how his relationship with food changed.

#two4tuesday @thespineview

#BookBinge

I decided to make the #CelebMemoir prompt become the #Celeb(Chef)Memoir 👩🏻‍🍳🤍 Here are some favorites by celebrity chefs & food personalities. The tagged book is my favorite on audio book.🎧

#FaceOnCover #MayMontage

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Incredibly approachable, nigh breezy glance at a person's life, as accompaniment to a passionate look at the food prepared, encountered and eaten in that life.
Includes recipes, admonishments on best/true versions/pairings of certain dishes, especially heritage Italian, and lamentations of vanished eateries and suppliers. 1/?

Kept peeking at these end papers the whole time I was reading the book. Discovered a real love for a sketchy line style with blurred/watercolour tinting - I think the Descender/Ascender graphic novel series art is what started it.

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Okay, thanks to media, I have heard of nuts offered in places that usually focus on serving beer, but can someone more versed in alcohol consumption confirm whether they've ever heard of 'free hard-boiled eggs' as an accompaniment? Is there a 'drinkers don't get drunk as fast' conspiracy around having a protein available at the bar? Does food science back this up?! 🤔

Suffice to say Stanley has a bit of a thing for cheese. 🧀😳

🥶😏 Foreigner's gullibility: That multi-syllabic name seems long enough to contain that sentiment!

Here's to the preservation of historical (structurally safe) architecture and (tolerant, useful) institutions.

Oh, boy, I can't believe I've never done this. Definitely trying it with the first cobs of the season. 🌽🤤

Oh yes, please. I will take more puns, thank you. ☺️

#FaceOnTheCover 👨‍🍳

#MarchMagic ☘️

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Couple of updates - finally finished the Stanley Tucci book as part of #auldlangaspine @JenReadsAlot - it was really good - and made me want to visit all those restaurants and even want to cook (and I‘m not a cook lll!)
Also the #lmpbc #groupw book is coming back to you at @BookBosomed1 - sorry it‘s so late but it was mailed today. I enjoyed our round this time @julieclair @Deblovestoread

Loved this audiobook! Stanley Tucci is fabulous reading this wonderful book about the importance of food in his life. From his childhood home in the US to his varied film locations and his new home in the UK , Stanley takes us on a culinary adventure. I got so hungry listening to him read recipes. ( the drawback of an audiobook is not being able to go back and drool over the recipes) I‘m so glad I watched his CNN series on the plane - it inspired

I have tried a few times, and food-based stories just don't appeal to me. I adore Mr. Tucci, and he is a wonderful narrator, but I just wasn't invested in his relationship with food *spoiler* if he had used the last chapter first, explaining how his recent health issues led him to be more introspective of his history with food, I might have been more interested. For what it is, it is probably great, but it is just not a genre I enjoy 🤷

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Delightful and delicious.

I love Tucci‘s voice and his acting! This was fun. Cooking and food is a strong theme of his life, and he‘s been surrounded by good cooks all the way through. Recipes included. I dare you to read this without having a major salivary response

Day 6: #Sharreadathon @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#Pantone2023 @Clwojick

Another #auldlangspine #bookspin completion. I love when memoirs are read by the memoirist in the audio edition. Tucci is a velvety and funny reader. He tells delicious and emotional stories. And he apologizes for dropping all those names — he‘ll pick them up later. 🤣🤣🍝🍷🥗🥖

Second book finished for #ALSpine! Loved this book. I definitely would have loved it more if I could eat half the dishes he discussed. I had no idea he had cancer or much about his life.

Loved his stories and how he related it all to food and drinks. I might get the print from the library to get some of the recipes and see if I can make them gluten free. Because they sounded delicious!

Second nonfiction book finished in 2023. #jumpstart2023

Stanley Tucci, will you marry me!? Ugh, this man is an absolute DREAM! He‘s funny, self-deprecating, HOT, intelligent, and most importantly THE MAN CAN COOK! 🍝 I dream of Italian vacations with authentic cuisine and this book fed (😉) my imagination. Foodies, this one is for you! Tucci‘s life experiences, as told through food. Beginning with his childhood, through movie sets, and even into quarantine in 2020. He also survived oral cancer. Love!!

Catching up on #12booksof2022. Day 1. In January, I listened to this & really enjoyed it. The last couple of hours got me partly through a trip from work to home in the snow that took 3 times as long as normal. @Andrew65

I just reread this, and loved it even more the second time. I took closer note of some of his tips and recipes, and just enjoyed the glorious descriptions of food along with his dry wit.

Listened to this while making all sorts of goodies today. Even though he read the text himself this probably would have been better in print so I could see the recipes.

This book was delightful. I switched between audio and library book. Stanley reads the audio and it‘s well done. I enjoyed hearing his story and learning new recipes. My family is going to have to endure my new obsession with Italian recipes!

It‘s taken me a while to get through this (my #booked22 pick for with a recipe - I‘m seriously behind!) pacing was a bit hit and miss for me but loved this food led autobiography overall. Recipes, film gossip and a step through so many great restaurants made it a good read

Guess I was hungry while browsing the thrift store today? 😁
I stop in once a week, mostly to look for textiles and wool for arty projects (but I‘m also a down blanket magnet and find one almost every time I go thrifting. Maybe ducks are haunting me?) Everyone in my family now owns a down throw.
At any rate, food was obviously on my mind today.

I loved this…it was funny, sad, sweary, but above all, warm! Having watched Stanley‘s TV documentaries I could hear him in my head. I imagine the audio is just as good, but hard copy is better for the recipes contained within.

Thanks so much for gifting this to me! @Mitch 😘

And apologies to Mr Tucci for including French olive oils in the pic; I don‘t have any Italian oils and a bag of supermarket pasta might not have had the right effect! 🤣

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I listened to this book and really enjoyed it especially as it was narrated by the author. It makes you hungry listening to it and as some of the recipes sound good I will get a physical copy of the book

⚠️Warning: Don‘t read this on an empty stomach. 🤤

This was warm and full of passion. Fabulous food with a great host. It feels like you‘ve been invited around your favourite uncles and the table is laden with the best of feasts! It‘s a fast read and leaves you dashing into the kitchen!

Pausing this to watch Aussie Masterchef! I wish I had some appropriately decadent and yummy snacks to hand!

Bookmark pairing working out well for this one! So far…Yum to everything on every page!

This one has been on my radar for a while. I adore Stanley Tucci.

I‘ve looked at this book a few times. Today I worked at my daughter‘s school fair where books were $1 each and I got this stack! I have read a few of them. Crossing to Safety is brilliance. Shuggie is too. I eagerly anticipate Cloud Cuckoo Land

I wasn‘t planning to read this, but then I heard Tucci on a podcast and decided to check it out. I‘m so glad I did, because this book is completely delightful! The focus here truly is food and he‘s really funny! The audio, read by the author, is excellent.

Made me crave Italian food.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love Stanley Tucci and this was absolutely delightful to listen to on audio. It‘s all about food and how it relates to different aspects of his life from childhood until now. I loved it and highly recommend it. Even listening to him read recipes was entertaining. (I‘m considering buying a physical copy for said recipes.)