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  • What I Ate in One Year

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  • By: Stanley Tucci
  • Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
  • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (174 ratings)

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What I Ate in One Year

By: Stanley Tucci
Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
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Publisher's summary

From Stanley Tucci, award-winning actor and New York Times bestselling author, a deliciously unique memoir chronicling a year’s worth of meals.

“Sharing food is one of the purest human acts.”

Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tucci’s life: from stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheon, to marinara sauce cooked between scene rehearsals and costume fittings, to home-made pizza eaten with his children before bedtime.

Now, in What I Ate in One Year Tucci records twelve months of eating—in restaurants, kitchens, film sets, press junkets, at home and abroad, with friends, with family, with strangers, and occasionally just by himself.

Ranging from the mouth-wateringly memorable to the comfortingly domestic and to the infuriatingly inedible, the meals memorialised in this diary are a prism for him to reflect on the ways his life, and his family, are constantly evolving. Through food he marks—and mourns—the passing of time, the loss of loved ones, and steels himself for what is to come.

Whether it’s duck a l’orange eaten with fellow actors and cooked by singing Carmelite nuns, steaks barbequed at a gathering with friends, or meatballs made by his mother and son and shared at the table with three generations of his family, these meals give shape and add emotional richness to his days.

What I Ate in One Year is a funny, poignant, heartfelt, and deeply satisfying serving of memories and meals and an irresistible celebration of the profound role that food plays in all our lives.

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An inspiration to read

Such a joy to listen to! I only wish that I could have been one of the guests at his table. There are descriptions of incredible mouthwatering recipes.. they make you want to sit down and create a meal just like the one he describes.

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What I ate in a year and related thoughts

Such a wonderful book! Love listing to his voice with all his little jokes. I’m inspired to cook more and include more people at my table

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Love Stanley

Liked the whole book and I’m glad he gave some cooking tips for some of the recipes!

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The comforting tone and daily anecdotes.

So much pasta, jokes and great moments between friends and family. I’ll always read his books

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WHO’S HUNGRY?

Fully and completely satiating both mentally and in my tummy!!! Outstanding work and performance by ST! Please open a restaurant of your own.

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Stanley is a legend!

With a plethora of great books horrendously narrated by who wrote them (who makes these decisions?) Stanley’s performance makes this a book that must be listened to … and perhaps not read conventionally. I just finished listening, and I cannot wait to listen again in the very near future.

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The Perfect Balm for Election Day Anxiety

Stanley Tucci's soothing narration and tales of cooking, family and travel have been the perfect antidote to the worries of the day. The chapters are very short, and this is an easy listen. It has been so relaxing listening to Tucci wax rhapsodic about favorite meals, shared with friends. I wish he would record some of his cookbooks as audio books also.

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Well written and well read.

Loved the personalization of this book. Learned a bit about Italian family roots and deeply enjoyed that.

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Wonderful

Thank you for sharing your culinary journey! It been wonderful to listen to. We live in Italy and will certainly revisit some of the places.

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Listening and even reading along have given me some great moments of comfort and enjoyment, especially when it comes to cooking. With the small antidotes of every day life mixed in with recipes and meals that were shared. It makes you feel like a welcomed guest over the year.

10/10 will listen again, if only for the recipes

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