The Tucci Table by Stanley Tucci: Cooking with Family and Friends

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His son Nico's Pasta with Proscuitto, Onions, Peas and Pancetta looks like a winning dish to me, and I appreciated the detailed instructions on the carbonara finish to the dish.

Many of the recipes here were out of the ordinary, and you could probably find much of this in another cookbook. Now, in a completely new, family-focused cookbook, Tucci captivates food lovers' imaginations with recipes from his traditional Italian roots as well as those of his British wife, Felicity Blunt, tied together with a modern American ribbon. But mostly, he feasted on his mother’s expanding repertoire of American, Calabrian, and Florentine recipes.In Lombardy, he enjoys the recipes of the Missoni family, glides through a Milanese aperitivo hour, fishes on Lake Como, and meets an Alpine cheesemaker to taste ancient Bitto. The Tucci Table is full of recipes that are based on simple, quality ingredients and traditional flavors. Happy to report that not only was I not disappointed - I am famished and headed to the kitchen to make a wholesome mess, drink wine and chuck some of it into the pot while simmering something delicious. Featuring 100 luscious new full-color photographs, The Tucci Table captures the true joys of family cooking. With my weakness for cookbooks, I could not pass up The Tucci Table: Cooking with Family and Friends by Stanley Tucci.

You have to know how to stay out of the way,” he says with a reverence that recognizes the demanding nature of restaurant work. Note that you don't need to chop the veggies in a food processor after sauteeing them - they'll be just fine as they are. These were the surprising impressions Stanley Tucci remembers from that formative year as a 13-year-old boy living in Florence, Italy, during his father’s teaching sabbatical. And then, I discovered his books and as an amateur cook (doing well I might say) and an amateur baker (doing rather poorly I'll admit) I was eager to dive right into whatever he had writing.

We were watching Stanley Tucci's Italian series on CNN when I admitted to having two of his cookbooks, but being unsure if I'd ever cooked from them, so obviously I had to rectify that. For the recipes I found for which I have ingredients, these are extremely simple recipes that most cooks already know by heart.