Our bi-monthly zoom book club continues this month and – as is usual for us – we have the theme (however loosely applied) and choices ahead of time.

Our 2023 Choices Theme – Delicious Reads

This year we will mostly be reading books – fictional and non – that feature or are about food.

• 21 Jan – Heartburn – Nora Ephron
• 18 March – Recipes for Love & Murder – Sally Andrews
• 20th May – Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto
• 15th July – One Hundred Foot Journey – Richard Morais
• 16th Sept – Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Stout
• 18th Nov – Taste – Stanley Tucci

Taste

From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen.

Before Stanley Tucci became a household name with The Devil Wears Prada, The Hunger Games, and the perfect Negroni, he grew up in an Italian American family that spent every night around the table. He shared the magic of those meals with us in The Tucci Cookbook and The Tucci Table, and now he takes us beyond the recipes and into the stories behind them.

Taste is a reflection on the intersection of food and life, filled with anecdotes about growing up in Westchester, New York, preparing for and filming the foodie films Big Night and Julie & Julia, falling in love over dinner, and teaming up with his wife to create conversation-starting meals for their children. Each morsel of this gastronomic journey through good times and bad, five-star meals and burnt dishes, is as heartfelt and delicious as the last.

About the Author

Stanley Tucci is an actor, writer, director, and producer. He has directed five films and appeared in over seventy films, countless television shows, and a dozen plays on and off Broadway. He has been nominated for an Academy Award, a Tony, and a spoken word Grammy; is a winner of two Golden Globes and two Emmys; and has received numerous other critical and professional awards and accolades.

A lover of all things culinary Stanley wrote and directed Big Night, the critically acclaimed movie about two brothers running a failing restaurant, starred in Julie and Julia and is the host of Emmy nominated Searching for Italy. He is also pretty adept with a cocktail shaker. 

He is the author of Taste: My Life Through Food and two cookbooks, The Tucci Table and The Tucci Cookbook.

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I think I’ll be getting the audiobook of this. I believe Mr Tucci narrates it!