In Stanley Tucci's travel series on CNN, he eats, and talks about eating, and visits the farmers and producers and venders providing those marvellous meals. “Italy is beautiful,” hels writes. “Not insignificantly, Stanley Tucci is beautiful, too.”
Several episodes of the CNN series “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy” open with a message that’s part apology and part warning: “The following episode was filmed prior to the start of the-19 outbreak.” For the couch-bound viewer, any travel show is a portal to fantasy. But a show like this—airing in a time like this—is escapism of another order.
“Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy,” which concluded its first season this past Sunday, is ostensibly educational. Each episode takes viewers on a tour of a specific region, and in each Tucci spends a bit of time with scholars and activists, discussing some aspect of the region’s history or politics or social strife. But mostly he eats, and talks about eating, and visits the farmers and producers and venders who provision his marvellous meals.is beautiful. The food of Italy is beautiful.
Tucci has returned to food often in the course of his career. He’s authored two cookbooks and played Julia Child’s adoring husband, Paul, in “Julie & Julia.” A culinary memoir, “,” is due out in the fall. Sure, Tucci has played other roles as well: supervillain, serial killer, fashionista, wizard. In his most recent film, this year’s tender “Supernova,” he plays opposite Colin Firth as a man navigating early-onset dementia.
“He’s no Bourdain,” one CNN devotee in my life said, of Tucci, unprompted, a few weeks ago. I suppose I agree, though that’s sort of like saying that a langoustine isn’t a porterhouse. Like Tucci, Anthony Bourdain was rich in charisma and possessed unlikely sex appeal. But Bourdain the travel-show host served as a spotlight, fondly illuminating the people and places around him. Tucci is an electromagnet.
is a staff writer at The New Yorker. In 2016, she won the James Beard award for personal-essay writing.
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