There’s a recurring theme in the second season of Tucci in Italy where someone tells Stanley Tucci he must eat more. <\/p>\n
Usually it’s a nonna (grandmother), sometimes it’s a chef, and occasionally it’s an entire family placing more food on the table in spite of his protests.<\/p>\n
It reminds me of when I visit my own nonna’s house in Rome; I’m immediately ushered to the dining table and presented with enough pasta, bread and favourite dishes to feed an entire family.<\/p>\n
And before I’ve even finished my first plate, I’m encouraged to help myself to seconds.<\/p>\n
Such moments are instantly familiar to any Italian, because being Italian means understanding that food is affection, hospitality and identity rolled into one.<\/p>\n
Watching the new season of Tucci in Italy, which is released on Disney+ on 12 May, you might find that second portion hard to resist. <\/p>\n
The series sees the Devil Wears Prada 2 star travel across the country – from Sicily to Sardinia to northern Italy – exploring regional cooking traditions, local communities and family-run kitchens.<\/p>\n
It features plenty of glistening seafood, market produce and local delicacies, alongside Tucci telling the story of a people for whom family and rituals hold communities together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There’s a recurring theme in the second season of Tucci in Italy where someone tells Stanley Tucci he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-14655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-italy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}