‘Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy’ back with season 2 & More News Here

Stanley is back. The creator/actor/director is back in Italy in season 2 of his fashionable present. The enjoyable begins simply as I’ve begun my on-line “Speaking Italian.” It’s not precisely a coincidence, however it’ll assist listening to Stanley as he chats with his Italian company.

Stanley has been bouncing round Italy since he was a child, and now he’s masking the entire enjoyable spots we have now all longed to go to in Italy this summer time.

Oh, I’m reminded that there can be no summer time in Italy for me or any central Mainers this yr, courtesy of the various forms of pandemic roadblocks to confront.

I do know, I by no means had any actual plans to dine in Tuscany, Milan, Sicily, Rome and Naples, or wherever else on that fabulous “boot.”

So it’s a delight to affix our favourite Italian America actor (“Julie & Julia,” “Devil Wears Prada”) as he hides us in his backpack and smuggles us into a brief, (4 segments) however thrilling season 2.

It’s nonetheless good to see Italy within the firm of Tucci, as he takes us aboard a camera-heavy gondola to go looking Venice. This is the place, after a couple of bites and slugs of vino, I needed to go back to the lodge and take a nap.

I proceed to benefit from the pasta meals in all of the areas, the wines in all of the cities, the strolls by way of the plazas, however the Venice Opening is probably not your favourite.

It opens on a cheerful observe. We’re handled to Cicchetti with its tapa parade of bacalao (codfish, not my favourite) Fegato (liver), moeche (mushy shell crabs) sardines and hams and various cheeses, laid gently on tiny items of fried polenta. Yum.

Then we paddle throughout the canal to the 1,000-year-old Rialto fish market to choose up the octopus and squid, and be taught to make the following dish. Brace your self.

First, Stanley has to take away the ink sacks from the cuttlefish to stain the dish black. Black pasta? Yes, Stanley squeezes the black blood from the fish whereas we shut our eyes.

We’re advised you will get your individual squid and do your individual squeezing. Don’t let the children watch.

But we do get my favourite calamari, Hugo d’anatra, duck rags with cinnamon orange, blessed with white wine and tossed with pappardelle pasta. Hungry but?

My favourite? Golden Spaghetti, topped with an precise leaf of edible gold. Don’t sweat, Stanley all the time picks up the tab.

There’s extra. We get to look at Stanley crunching down on one thing that appears like a big benign praying mantis, and we hear the crunch.

Later on, we be part of Stanley, shivering from the chilly, as he follows the bearlike Igor Biacini, deep within the woods as he hunts for truffles, and we be taught {that a} uncommon white truffle can promote for $105,344 at public sale in Hong Kong, and perhaps slightly cheaper at Hannaford.

Don’t rush out, you received’t discover them within the woods of Maine.

Sadly, there are solely 4 segments of this Tucci delight seen on CNN Sundays at 9 p.m. Enjoy.

J.P. Devine of Waterville is a former stage and display actor.

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