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Stanley Tucci is an award winning actor and filmmaker. Nominated for an Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA for The Lovely Bones (2009). The list of outstanding performances is endless, The Hunger Games, Burlesque, The Terminal, and of course The Devil Wears Prada and Julie & Julia, alongside the inimitable Meryl Streep.

Not content with being brilliant on the big screen, Stanley has also won an Emmy for his TV show Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy.

Nick nervously serves Stanley a negroni and Angela prepares one of his favourite meals, spaghetti alle vongole, with clams, white wine, garlic, parsley and crispy pangrattato (toasted breadcrumbs). Stanley is a man of taste, he talks Italian cooking with Angela, the importance of a leather shoe with Nick and casually drops names like Ryan Reynolds, Cher and Judi Dench into conversation. Stanley Tucci is the epitome of a dream dinner party guest.

This episode was released in November 2022 and was the sixth episode from Series 2 of Dish from Waitrose.

Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/SpDFGkSqWYc

All recipes from this podcast can be found at waitrose.com/dishrecipes

A transcript for this episode can be found at waitrose.com/dish

Find all Dish episodes here: https://pod.link/1626354833

We can’t all have a Michelin star chef in the kitchen, but you can ask Angela for help.
Send your dilemmas to dish@waitrose.co.uk and she’ll try to answer in a future episode.

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15 Comments

  1. i remember one of the earliest internet/social media food debate is Italian food authenticity. I believe there are a lot of misconception

  2. A capital offense. Ha! Get over yourselves. It's only pasta. Italian food is not that complicated.

  3. This is not entirely a misconception. Any kind of pasta (in terms of shape) goes with any kind of sauce. The taste will be practically the same (since the recipe for the dough is the same). However, not all pasta can manage all sauces.
    I have tried and tried many sauces with all kinds of pasta, the taste is the same !
    It's just that if one recipe historically calls for linguine, people will assume that the recipe only works with linguine.

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