Meryl Streep), the chef who introduced French cooking to America. He is the author of two cookbooks himself, The Tucci Cookbook (2012) and The Tucci Table: Cooking with Family and Friends (2015) and is working on a food memoir.
On the day we meet, he’s hosting a Zoom ‘cookalong’ for the literary agency Curtis Brown, where his wife Felicity Blunt works (Tucci is one of her clients). ‘I’m doing a fettuccine con funghi,’ he says. ‘Mushrooms.
A little onion, shallot, vegetable stock, a little butter, parmigiana, a little parsley over the top… Delicious!’In a career spanning some 35 years, Tucci, 60, has made more than 80 movies – from art-house chamber pieces to popcorn blockbusters, from The Devil Wears Prada and The Hunger Games to The Lovely.
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