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In the latest episode of CNN’s Searching for Italy, actor Stanley Tucci continued his journey in southern Italy with a stop in Puglia (POOL-ya), located, as he says, “in the heel of Italy’s boot…with 500 miles of coastline and 60 million olive trees, one for every Italian in Italy.”  The town of Foggia, he noted, is the “bread basket of Italy,” pro...

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Food evokes memories, and sparks culinary pleasures to varying degrees for all of us. Some people go the extra mile to link their food to their roots. In his memoir Taste: My Life Through Food, released late last year, actor Stanley Tucci (The Devil Wears Prada, Margin Call, Captain America: The First Avenger...) wrote: “I mean, if you can’t eat an...

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What's it like visiting a town in Italy where more than half the population has the same name as you? For actor Stanley Tucci, accompanying his elderly parents to his ancestral homeland in the southern Italian region of Calabria, it was "very emotional." The Tucci family made a pilgrimage to the town of Marzi, tucked away in the toe of Italy's boot...

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Winner of both 2021 and 2022 Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series, Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy continues its second season with four new episodes. The CNN Original Series, produced by RAW, premieres Sunday, October 9 at 9pm ET/PT on CNN. Academy Award® nominee and Emmy® Award-winning actor Stanley Tucci indulges his passion...

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A comforting presence on the big screen, Golden Globe winner Stanley Tucci has spent decades bringing fan-favorite characters to life. In the kitchen, Tucci has also brought simple recipes to life. Leaning into his Italian roots, Tucci prefers to indulge in the foods that filled his childhood, which include pasta and lots of olive oil. The author o...

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Stanley Tucci, the A-list actor and host of the hit TV show Searching for Italy, is set to star in a new TV spy thriller, Citadel, which is being developed and produced by Joe and Anthony Russo (the directors behind Avengers: Endgame). The ambitious project, bankrolled by Amazon Studios, will follow an unprecedented production concept, where multip...

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Stanley Tucci, an Italian American who is no stranger to the hustle culture in the United States, thinks Americans should take some notes from the Italian way of life. The "Searching for Italy" host told AOL that he thinks Italians "are much better at taking vacations." "Most businesses have a lot more time allotted to their employees for vacations...

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Stanley Tucci thinks you deserve to summer like an Italian. So much so that he's willing to give you $10,000 to do it. The actor, host, and avid traveler has long been known for his love of the European nation, which also happens to be his ancestral homeland. He's dropped not one but two seasons of his acclaimed show, "Searching for Italy," which...

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Americans are bad at taking time off. If you’re one of the lucky workers that does get paid vacation days, you’re likely not using them all (only 23 percent do, according to a 2017 Glassdoor study). So here is a gentle reminder from Emmy award winning actor and creator of “Searching for Italy”, Stanley Tucci, to schedule that PTO this summer. Partn...

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Stanley Tucci and Italian food go together like spaghetti and fresh tomato sauce, chianti and Florentine steak, ricotta cheese and a pastry shell (aka a cannoli) … but never pineapple on pizza. As the host of “Searching for Italy,” a show that explores the culinary history and flavors of cities and towns across Italy’s 20 regions, Tucci demonstrate...

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