This book is filled with food (hence the title), love of family and travel stories. I very much enjoyed this book.
Straight off I wanted the salad of cannellini beans, canned tuna, red onion, tomatoes, basil and olive oil. I wish I had added cucumbers but I will do that next time. (please excuse my poor photograhy skills)
His love of soups - "it's the greatest culinary invention which can be made with two ingredients or twenty ingredients. It can be served hot or cold. It can be cooked fast or slow. It can be vegan, vegetarian, paleo, pescatarian or carnivorian. Soup is life in a pot."
The entry for April 27 was poignant with the memories of his former home, the life he and his first wife Kate created with their children. Memories of raising their children there until her death in 2009. "The house he watched his children leave for the first days of school, where they learned of their mother's illness, where Kate passed away and where the magnolia tree where some of her ashes are scattered."
The stories in the October entry about working with Ukrainian refugees was very moving to me. Hearing the women talk about what was left behind and how they are managing with young children but wanting nothing more than to be home.
So much food and so many ideas I am inspired to prepare from reading this. It is after all called What I Ate in One Year. I liked the diary like format and descriptions of life with his family and his working projects as well.
This book is shared with Shelleyrae at Book'd Out for the 2025 Nonfiction Reader Challenge. Category: Food
This sounds like an emotional but very good read. I put it on hold at my library.
ReplyDeleteVicki, I hope you like it. It was neat reading about some of the celebrities he has shared meals with and movies he is working on/in as well.
DeleteI listened to another book by Stanley Tucci and enjoyed it but I really love the sound of this one. A lot of his food doesn't appeal to me (I'm not a big fish eater and have a shellfish allergy) but I love the way he talks about food.
ReplyDeleteKatherine, he is a true lover of food for sure. Love the way he talks about cooking with his wife and now his younger son getting interested. The diary type format is also appealing to me.
DeleteI wonder if I would enjoy this more in print. I tried to listen to the audio, but got tired of hearing Tucci. I love him as an actor, but felt he sounded a bit snobby/elitist as he read his book.
ReplyDeleteLes, could be his tone put you off but we all have different tastes. I like the format and hearing about his everyday life which is, of course, very different from mine!
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