Italian food no-nos! | Stanley Tucci | Dish #podcast

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.

We can’t all have a Michelin star chef in the kitchen, but you can ask Angela for help.

Dish is a S:E Creative Studio production for Waitrose

[humanhelp]

I think Tagliatelle is the preferred pasta size for Bolognese. And yes, you should always grate your Parmesan fresh for optimal taste. 👅

[debrucey]

Pre-grated is fine as long as its pre-grated by you at home from a block of the real stuff, it keeps really well in the freezer.

[amandalynn]

Add Stanley Tucci to anything and 🎉 chefs kiss!

[johntilsley]

As a Yorkshireman you can't have too much sauce, or gravy. It's got to be moist.

[stonkr]

Still working on my ragu, haven't quite nailed it - too bland, but I'm going to use tagliatelle as we're having this tonight. Carbonara - have never used cream but I do use bacon & parmesan, hear me out. As I understand it guanciale & pecorino were used as they were cheap, plentiful & available; so I use bacon & parmesan in that same original spirit even though that's not authentic. Same reason I use a green bell pepper for Turkish menemen.

Edit: Salt. I wasn't using any in my ragu to be healthy. Adding some brought out the other flavours markedly. And it was much better with tagliatelle. Italians please stop reading here. Adding worcester sauce and msg also added greater depth.

[chinaahpek]

i love sauces. I drown my pasta in sauces. I will finish the sauce with bread on my carb loading night

[sugarrrfree]

You have to be a pain in the ass to complain about too much sauce (if it drowning it then it becomes a soup). What will you do your scarpetta with? Ps. I’ve been living in Italy for the last 22 years

[mikalasimpson]

Please Stanly tell the uneducated that great Italian food exists in the UK. They should try going to Scotland

[kberanoyd]

Incorrect. No such thing as too much sauce.

[Jo-hrfy]

Where does spaghetti bolognese originate then? Which pasta should we eat with bolognese?

[ohdang]

Let people like what they like. If you don't like too much sauce, good for you. But others might. If you don't like cream in your carbonara that's great but I do. Being bothered by other people's preferences and trying to shame them as if they are WRONG in some way is wild.

[afallin]

Cream in carbonara! Yess! I never enjoyed pasta until i went to Italy.

[jessieboyd]

red sauce...sorry but you only had it for about 200 years or so and half that time it was considered a poison.

Tomatoes could be grown in victory gardens, you could use small amounts of meat.

So you have most garden, easy to grow and cheap to buy ingredients. Along with a simple pasta that could be made at home, with minimal ingredients. This helped people survive 2 wars and a great depression.

[joseelaberge]

They did not say that fish or seafood with cheese is a no-no, though that usually greatly irritate Italians. Which i never really understood, 'cause it can be good. Not always, but not a sin.

[stuartlydes-uings]

As a rule Italians eat both spaghetti and bolognese but not on the same plate at the same time.

[Hacienda_]

Even I don't like ore grated Parmesan and i'm A peasant

[jasonlarson]

If any of this stuff annoys you, then you have absolutely run out of real problems.

[hugh]

Spaghetti Bolognese can’t be Spaghetti Bolognese without Spaghetti and Parmesan is great but so is cheddar, Italian food is enjoyable it’s not baking, every grandma has her own recipes. If you want Hawaiian pizza with pineapple, have what you enjoy and not what someone else tells you what they think is right. When the waiter asks shall he explain the menu, it’s time to go!

[devout]

Oh do one. If you're cooking for a family the sauce makes a larger meal. So cooking on a budget thats what you have to do.

Snobs.

[shineysfinest]

What about what 90% of what Americans think Italian food is. Like a deep fried breaded chicken cutlet throw on to a bowl of spaghetti 🤣

I mean it's awesome. But it's not Italian food .