Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci review / Eat, drink, swoon

 

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Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci review – eat, drink, swoon

With a side order of charm and anecdotes, the actor and gourmand makes our reviewer crave a plate of his zeppole

Rachel Cooke
Monday 11 October 2021

Zeppole are deep-fried balls of a dough made with flour and, sometimes, mashed potatoes. The sweet version, dusted with sugar, are often filled with pastry cream, like the more famous cannoli. The savoury version, favoured in Calabria, in southern Italy, may contain anchovies, and go down very well indeed with a martini, or a glass of something cold, fizzy and unforgivably expensive.

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With his recent hit culinary quest show, “Searching for Italy,” and food-focused cult films such as 1996’s “Big Night” and 2009’s “Julie & Julia,” Stanley Tucci has established himself as not just an actor but also a serious epicurean.