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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43 Comments

  1. Excellent! I love Stanley Tucci and am about to make his zucchini pasta dish..The beauty of Italian food ( e.g. Piemonte, Lombardia) is that it is healthy and can be made relatively quickly. Bravo for your great show! 🙄😍😍

  2. Waitrose have hopeless wine, I ordered a case of my favourite Italian wine a couple of weeks ago, and the wine merchant told me I would get a call to pay the duty! Because we were not EU!

  3. My mother's mother was a Spain's civil war survivor, and she had a relationship with leftovers very similar, the only food I saw her throwing in the bin was bread when there was a big stale chunk of a loaf (many people don't nowadays, but when I was young most people bought the bread daily) and she kissed the bread before dumping it. She loved simple food, a favorite of hers were Oranges, she was a kid during the siege of Madrid, she and her sister were stranded there with no adults and they had a really hard time to get food, once a relief convoy from Valencia arrived and they managed to score some oranges. She always told us that was the best food she ever had.

  4. I am a neapolitan but I never heard in my life of pangrattato (bread crumbs)I f I understood it well,on spaghetti a vongole.Must be an american thing and,by the way,italian food is much more than pasta.

  5. Love and Stanley Tucci . Angela eats clams the way I do. no fussing w cutlery. Great episode .

  6. Omg second time watching I saw the disembodied hand with the wine bottle. Reminds me that many lovely people are making this wonderful podcast. This is one of my favourite episodes. Thank you!

  7. He really is one of the best – clever, funny (so funny!!) and his show is outstanding – it really is!!

  8. I learned how to make spaghetti carbonara by watching Stanley Tucci. I always used to add extra stuff to it. But all it takes is spaghetti, spaghetti water, good parm cheese and pepper. Simple, simple, simple but SO freaking good.

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