New Food Travel Collection With Stanley Tucci

What much better host than Stanley Tucci to get viewers on a regional culinary tour of Italy? The avowed meals lover is of Italian heritage, on each sides of his spouse and children.

And what greater timing than now? With a lot of restaurants shuttered and many others with confined hours and seating potential, many Americans have acquired a pandemic-induced obsession with cooking. They pine to journey as shortly as more individuals are vaccinated and borders reopen. Several want to take a look at or revisit Italy.

Tucci’s new six-section CNN collection, Looking for Italy, will premiere on Valentine’s Working day, Sunday, February 14, 2021 at 9PM EST. The initial episode can take viewers to Campania, located in the southwest portion of the Italian peninsula. 

“During a time when everyone needs they could journey, the collection will transportation you through Italy’s cultural earlier and current by means of its extraordinary cuisine,” stated Tucci in announcing the new collection. “The meals tells the story of this country’s exclusive history and I’m thrilled to provide as a tutorial via this journey.”

In Italy, all food recipes, traditions and solutions are regional (or even a lot more community than that)—whether it’s breads, pastas, cheeses, pastries or anything else. Wine is also generated in every one particular of Italy’s 20 locations. Each individual episode has been filmed in a diverse region (or city) including Tuscany, Sicily, Milan, Rome, Bologna, and Naples/The Amalfi Coastline. Viewers get launched to local cooks, winemakers, farmers, food stuff producers, historians and guides. 4 episodes had been filmed in the slide of 2019 (just before the pandemic) and the past two in the fall of 2020.

An award-successful actor with a lengthy listing of motion picture, tv and theater credits, Tucci is also  acknowledged as a proficient author, director and producer. This definitely is not Tucci’s initially food-associated foray, and his passion for Italian foods and society appears to be in his blood. He grew up in a massive Italian-American relatives in Westchester County, New York, that continued the custom of multigenerational Sunday dinners. 

He worked at dining establishments and even opened just one (later on sold) in North Salem, NY. He has written several cookbooks, the first with his mother and sister (actress Christine Tucci). He co-wrote (with his cousin, Joseph Tropiano), co-directed, and starred in Significant Night, just one of the most unforgettable foodstuff movies of all time.

“Stanley’s partaking personality, wit and charm make him the fantastic suit to take CNN’s viewers on an intimate voyage to his beloved Italy,” claimed Amy Entelis, EVP for Talent & Content Growth, CNN Globally. “We know our audience will come to feel encouraged as they knowledge, by Stanley’s eyes, the meals, lifestyle and folks of a country that has provided the earth so substantially joy from its cuisine.”

Just after this jaunt up and down the boot, the lush surroundings, 1-of-a-variety figures, and delectable dishes Stanley Tucci has learned will go away you craving for much more.