Big Night: Stanley Tucci Eats Hollywood

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Stanley Tucci shares his life through food—on- and off-screen. He takes us behind the scenes of “Big Night” and “Julie & Julia," reveals why catering on an Italian movie set is surprisingly bad and recounts dining disasters with Meryl Streep. Plus, Dr. Jennifer Mathews uncovers the secret history of chewing gum; Grant Barrett and Martha Barnette reveal the origin of the couch potato; and we whip up plush yogurt flatbreads from Crete.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Rosie, the director of education at Milk Street.
0:03.6	Viola Buitoni and Marika Contaldo Seguso know everyone, everywhere in Italy.
0:08.7	If you want to visit a tiny Parmesan producer working with a breed of cows almost extinct,
0:13.6	Viola's friends with him.
0:15.1	Have you heard about Venice's most famous and glamorous cookie baker on the colorful island of Burano?
0:23.0	Marika is welcomed into Carmelina's jewel-like shop like family. Marika and Viola have spent their lives cultivating these relationships,
0:28.9	and now they're willing to share them with you on our new culinary travel trips. With Marika,
0:33.7	we visit seven islands in the Venetian lagoon to meet farmers, winemakers, bakers, and fishermen.
0:39.1	And with Viola, we meet her friends and cook all together in Campania and Emilio Romagna.
0:44.2	There is exactly one spot left on each of the three trips this fall.
0:49.5	Join us. Head to www.177Milkstreet.com slash tours to see the full itineraries.
0:58.1	Hi, this is Christopher Kimball.
1:00.1	Thanks for listening to Milk Street Radio.
1:02.5	You can go to our website, 175Milkstreet.com, to get our recipes, to stream our television show, or to get our latest cookbooks.
1:10.1	Here's this week's show.
1:16.4	This is MostJate Radio from PRX.
1:18.7	I'm your host, Christopher Kimball.
1:21.7	Stanley Tucci is known for bridging food and film.
1:25.4	He played Julia Charles' husband Paul and Julie and Julia,
1:28.5	and also directed and starred in Big Night,
1:31.5	which follows two brothers trying to save their Italian restaurant.
1:35.0	His latest venture is a food travel show set in Italy.
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