Stanley Tucci is an award winning actor and filmmaker. Nominated for an Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA for The Lovely Bones (2009). The list of outstanding performances is endless, The Hunger Games, Burlesque, The Terminal, and of course The Devil Wears Prada and Julie & Julia, alongside the inimitable Meryl Streep.
Not content with being brilliant on the big screen, Stanley has also won an Emmy for his TV show Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy.
Nick nervously serves Stanley a negroni and Angela prepares one of his favourite meals, spaghetti alle vongole, with clams, white wine, garlic, parsley and crispy pangrattato (toasted breadcrumbs). Stanley is a man of taste, he talks Italian cooking with Angela, the importance of a leather shoe with Nick and casually drops names like Ryan Reynolds, Cher and Judi Dench into conversation. Stanley Tucci is the epitome of a dream dinner party guest.
This episode was released in November 2022 and was the sixth episode from Series 2 of Dish from Waitrose.
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Pre grated parmesan is cheaper for us lower class people so sorry for your snobbery
Still working on my ragu, haven't quite nailed it – too bland, but I'm going to use tagliatelle as we're having this tonight. Carbonara – have never used cream but I do use bacon & parmesan, hear me out. As I understand it guanciale & pecorino were used as they were cheap, plentiful & available; so I use bacon & parmesan in that same original spirit even though that's not authentic. Same reason I use a green bell pepper for Turkish menemen.
Who’s the chav bird ?
Not an Italian restaurant or dish but the too much sauce was my meal of shrimp and grits tonight on our vacation. The meal tasted great but it was a giant sloppy greasy bowl of a white cheese sauce over flowing and you lost the girts completely. It had 3 different sizes of shrimp! I loved it but my family kept questioning because they thought it looked awful, and it did, but the taste was above average. I fished the shrimp out to take home and left the soupyness to be cleaned up.
I think the Neapolitans still argue with the Bolognese about spaghetti tho. It’s a thing down there!
Snobs
There is NO CREAM in Carbonara EVER!
Emily Blunts sister??
Yup… do all of those things!🫣
I love spaghetti with Bolognese
So Pizza with pineapple 🍍 passes 😂🥳
Where does spaghetti bolognese originate then? Which pasta should we eat with bolognese?
You can use cream, you can use whatever you want to reach the taste you want. Don’t let pretentious people gatekeep food, food is good and can be made in many ways. Try it all and don’t be so damn judgmental.
Well theyr are italian both , they know better
For me there is no such thing as too much sauce.
Tucci's shiny head annoys me
Spaghetti Bolognese can’t be Spaghetti Bolognese without Spaghetti and Parmesan is great but so is cheddar, Italian food is enjoyable it’s not baking, every grandma has her own recipes. If you want Hawaiian pizza with pineapple, have what you enjoy and not what someone else tells you what they think is right. When the waiter asks shall he explain the menu, it’s time to go!
Life of the privilege..so many annoyances in there life
All carbonaras are good regardless of milk
What about what 90% of what Americans think Italian food is. Like a deep fried breaded chicken cutlet throw on to a bowl of spaghetti 🤣
I mean it's awesome. But it's not Italian food .