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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45 Comments
Everything is a capital offense for an italian if you talk about food.
Talks about Michelin Stars and faff…then slides this one in.
Sorry Stanley. I will put whatever sauce on whatever pasta I may happen to have on hand and won’t be giving it a second thought.
Has anybody ever willingly hung out with Stanley Tucci?
A huge misconception is that he thinks Italian food is all quick preparation
From a nation that complains if you put milk in your coffee after midday and then put fries on their pizza 🤷♂️ no other nation cries over how their Nonna does it as much as Italians. We all could, but our minds are a mile more open.
Live in Italy, and see how long it takes to get sick of Italian food!
About 6 weeks. Any other nation,
You have a far greater variety of food choices at your fingertips
As far as I know, I’m not Italian, but suspect there must be some somewhere in my lineage because my girlfriend decided she was going to make “bolognese” and so she snapped the pasta in half before boiling it and when it was boiled she threw it in a pan and then added pasta jar sauce to the pan and mixed it around. I know in general that’s a pretty terrible way of cooking, but I got genuinely angry and refused to eat it. It actually caused an argument.
He's absolutely right..
Stanley is a great actor
He's talking like an authority on pasta whilst using a spoon…
Grimmy still thieving a living I see…🙄
The misconception that Pasta is Italian when it was stolen from the Chinese
Nope!
Yea
Tucci uses olive oil in his pasta water !!!!!!!! No one in Italy does this
As he says "bolognesE" which no italian has ever said😂. He not only pronounced it wrong but no italian would call ragu "bolognese" just because it came from bologna.
I will tell you misconception about italian food. That its a good, or one of the best cuisines.. i mean apart from maybe pizzaa everything else is barely above avg.
He’s such a tool
Just the single worst host of any show. Somehow worse than Michael McIntyre.
Ahh yes. Eating with there mouth open again.
So elegant.
The misconception is that you should do anything other than what tastes good to you.
FINALLY someone agrees with me!!
I am not Italian, but my father brought me up like I was. Overcooked pasta, and spaghetti (or fusilli) with everything were capital sins 😅
discussing food as a serious topic makes me vomit and stick a tea spoon into my eyesocket at the same time. what is this guy doing?! he used to be a great actor. what's next? he'll open a barber shop?!
Preaching about Italian food but then calling ragù bolognese sit down
Poverty is like a dream for most people
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How pretentious
If i make one shape pasta with another pasta's dough, would the average Italian be able to tell the difference? I doubt it.
Why dont you ask a real italian?
I cannot stand any pasta. My parents would force it on me. It has no flavor. The sauce did but why am i swallowing down this gloopy slug of garbage ! My comeback..can i just have a salad? I still hate pasta, all, don't care about its shape, its like …eating a garbage bag. No offense to all who like it, I know I'm in a minority.
What a load of meatballs!
Bullshit. If you like it, it's right.
What pasta do you serve with bolognaise if not spaghetti?
italian food is extremely overated . all pastas go with all sauces. eat and enjoy what and how you like, not what some pretentious nobodys try to tell you
Don t eat with a spoon!
What r they eating here
I'm not Italian, but I've always thought that certain types of pasta sauce naturally pair better and you can't just throw your sauce around Willy nilly.
It can.
Its a capital pretense.
Watching Tucci trying to get that pasta on his fork was infuriating
ST can't cook wnd he has no clue
i literally almost ordered spaghetti bolagnese the other day. i like meat sauce with cappellini, big whoop!
The fact that he is eating them with a spoon is the main misconception.
Tomatoes come from mexico.. thats it
That’s ridiculous, I grew up with Italian immigrants parents and grandparents and we regularly ate spaghetti with bolognese sauce. 🙄
Eating spaghetti with a spoon and having snobs conversations. 😅
It's already a big misconceptions to call "Bolognese" !!! No one in Italy calls it that. It's called "ragù"!!! 😉👍🇮🇹