From Stanley Tucci,award-winning actor and New York Times bestselling authora deliciously unique memoir chronicling a yearΓÇÖs worth of meals. ΓÇ£Sharing food is one of the purest human acts.ΓÇ¥ Food has always been an integral part of Stanley TucciΓÇÖs life: from stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheonto marinara sauce cooked between scene rehearsals and costume fittingsto home-made pizza eaten with his children before bedtime. Nowin What I Ate in One Year Tucci records twelve months of eatingΓÇöin restaurantskitchensfilm setspress junketsat home and abroadwith friendswith familywith strangersand occasionally just by himself. Ranging from the mouth-wateringly memorable to the comfortingly domestic and to the infuriatingly inediblethe meals memorialised in this diary are a prism for him to reflect on the ways his lifeand his familyare constantly evolving. Through food he marksΓÇöand mournsΓÇöthe passing of timethe loss of loved onesand steels himself for what is to come. Whether itΓÇÖs duck a lΓÇÖorange eaten with fellow actors and cooked by singing Carmelite nunssteaks barbequed at a gathering with friendsor meatballs made by his mother and son and shared at the table with three generations of his familythese meals give shape and add emotional richness to his days. What I Ate in One Year is a funnypoignantheartfeltand deeply satisfying serving of memories and meals and an irresistible celebration of the profound role that food plays in all our lives.