Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci

I’m not a huge fan of Stanley Tucci nor have I watched his wildly popular travelog plus cooking show. So I was not expecting to love this memoir much. But I got swept up in his descriptions of his Italian-American childhood in upstate New York. As Tucci describes his career, he keeps the focus unwaveringly on his personal religion—food. From the first quarantine shutdown to his struggles with cancer that temporarily robbed him of his sense of taste, this is an engaging memoir told in an entertaining (if occasionally too saucy) voice. I ate it up in two large bites.