Clean with passion for now episode 5
It's one of the reasons I wanted to make the TV show about regional cuisine. But certainly you're going to use that, you're going to use lasagna and make a lasagna with it. In Bologna, they'll use a homemade tagliatelle. So you need something formidable that's going to stand up to that sauce, the richness of that sauce. You wouldn't put a Bolognese with star pasta. Everything was about eating and cooking and preparing, enjoying food, growing food, everything. And we, I remember cooking chickens with her down there, plucking chickens down there after she had decapitated them or basically strangled them, and it was just wonderful. She would make her bread dough down there. She would make her pizza dough down there. And if we had a really big party in the winter, we would often just eat down in this basement and it was just fantastic. And that was where she did a lot of prep work. I'm not a religious person, but if there is one thing that's holy, it would be food. So I grew up with really, really amazing food, but not just the food, but it was also the sort of enthusiasm for food and the interest in food. about 50 miles north of the city, and my parents were both Italian American and their parents had come from Italy, and they were all great cooks. I grew up in Westchester County - Katonah, N.Y. On the Sunday dinners his family shared growing up And finally, the tumor became so large that it was quite visible to this one doctor who happened to be a salivary-gland guy. I tried a whole bunch of different things, and nothing worked. They thought it was a million different things, except for what it was, which was cancer. They thought it was trigeminal neuralgia. It was at the base of my tongue, but the pain was referred pain up in my jaw at the back of my jaw. On being diagnosed with oral cancer three years ago "And I can taste things much more quickly, like I'm much more hyperaware of what things taste like now." I never would have been able to smell before," he says. His sense of taste has returned - and is actually heightened. After an intense radiation treatment, he is now cancer-free. Luckily, Tucci's cancer had not metastasized. "I couldn't even drink water because it burned my mouth so much." He lost his sense of taste and smell, and his mouth became so ulcerous that he was on a feeding tube for six months. "I'm not a religious person, but if there is one thing that's holy, it would be food."īut three years ago, Tucci was diagnosed with oral cancer, and the cancer and its treatment nearly robbed him of his ability to enjoy food. " everything revolved around what you were going to eat that night, what you were eating for lunch," he says.
#Clean with passion for now episode 5 series
Stanley Tucci hosts the CNN series Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy.įor actor Stanley Tucci, food isn't just sustenance it's also a way to connect to his roots - to the backyard gardens of his Southern Italian ancestors, to the basement kitchen where his grandmother plucked chickens, to the delicious Sunday meals of his childhood.