What if eating became an act of memory? This is the challenge taken up by Stanley Tucci in his documentary series “Tucci in Italy”, a journey as intimate as it is universal. In this culinary fresco by National Geographic, broadcast on Disney+, Stanley Tucci doesn’t play a role. He lives, he searches, he tastes.

Born of Italian-American parents, he conjures up childhood memories, family heritage and popular culture in a series of five episodes spanning Tuscany, Lombardy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Abruzzo and Lazio. But this journey is anything but a postcard. Each region reveals its own tensions, surprises and cross-fertilizations.