Stanley Tucci records 12 months of eating in his food diary 'What I Ate in One Year'

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🗓️ 6 November 2024

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Stanley Tucci of Searching for Italy and The Devil Wears Prada fame loves food—especially the comforting taste of home-cooked Italian cuisine. But in 2017, when Tucci was diagnosed with oral cancer, he temporarily lost his sense of taste. A year later, following treatment that included six months on a feeding tube, he became cancer-free. Since then, Tucci has thought and written a lot about death and his desire to freeze time. In today's episode, Tucci joins NPR's A Martinez to talk about what makes a great meal, how life revolves around food, and his new book What I Ate in One Year.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day.
0:03.6	I'm Andrew Limbong, and I am here to tell you that today we are offering you what's known
0:08.5	in the biz as counter-programming.
0:11.2	Is there news going on right now?
0:13.3	Undoubtedly, yes.
0:14.5	But what if you took a break from the news for a few minutes and instead hung out with
0:18.1	Stanley Tucci?
0:19.8	You know him from The Devil Wears Prada or maybe that
0:22.2	viral video of him making a Nogroni or maybe his TV show where he eats his way through Italy.
0:28.3	He's got a new book out called What I Eat in One Year. And I'll just say this conversation with
0:32.7	NPR's A Martinez was surprisingly deep. I went in thinking it was going to be, you know, a fun and
0:39.1	breezy-seleb interview, but it turned out to be a really thoughtful conversation about time,
0:44.8	aging, love, and appreciating the life we're in right now. That's ahead.
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1:15.3	When actor Stanley Tucci isn't on a film set, there's a good chance you'll find him in a
1:19.8	kitchen somewhere rustling up something tasty.
1:22.4	Italian cuisine features heavily in his diet, as you might know, from his TV program
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