Actor Stanley Tucci has built a culinary identity one project at a time, from Big Night to Searching for Italy, social media virality and a cookware line. Stanley Tucci was trying to do too much. He was cooking dinner for a friend, and he should have just made a cod with rice or potatoes.
Instead, Tucci had to add pasta. How could he not? It was fresh pasta he had bought at the farmers market, so how could he not cook it with some onions, leeks, asparagus, green beans, butter and cheese to make something delicious? This should work. It didn’t work.
The pasta didn’t come together for reasons he can’t explain, which resulted in overcooked fish. His mistakes upended the meal so much that he’s still thinking the next day about what might have been, if he had only edited himself. “It was .
.. ehhh .
.. It wasn’t good,” Tucci says in a Zoom interview.
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