Is anyone watching STANLEY TUCCI: SEARCHING FOR ITALY?

[brooklynite]

It's an interesting profile of Italian culture through the foods of each Italian region. This Sunday's episode takes place in Sicily and features an elegant dinner with an old Italian aristocrat Principessa Stefania di Raffadal in her Palermo apartment. When I saw the preview, I knew my wife and I had had dinner with her in 2014 (her family sends their kids to my school in Rome). The butler's uniform was a dead givewaway...

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. I had a Stouffer's 4 meat lasagna dish tonight...does that count?

just kidding. love Italian.

[CanonRay]

2. Yes, were taping to watch later

Great show

[kimbutgar]

3. We were in Florence in 2018 and I experienced some of that delicious foods

Every time I watch it I want to go back to Italy and get extremely hungry for that delicious food.

This pandemic sucks I want to travel again!

[Cousin Dupree]

4. Love him, and love the show!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. Gave up after the first episode on VOD. Three minutes of commercials every five minutes.

[Paladin]

6. Terrific series, highly recommended. (nt)

[George II]

7. I used to be able to drive to Rome from Brooklyn in less than four hours.

[Me.]

8. !

[lapucelle]

14. Was there a palace there where aristocratic innkeepers serve their paying guests superb seafood?

https://www.dialaflight.com/magazine/2003/04/palermo_apr03.aspx

[George II]

15. No, but there's a pretty active "Little Italy" with a number of great neighborhood Italian....

....restaurants. My favorite is Luigi's Italian Cuisine. Real Italian food in a cozy environment, decent prices.

Of course they're not as good as restaurants in Little Italy in NYC. Way back when we used to go down there after our college classes for the best pasta I've had anywhere. Great food to line our stomachs before our Friday night fraternity parties.

I miss those days!

[mainer]

9. Since we can't travel, it's the next best thing!

Although I hate getting hungry with every episode.

[SharonClark]

10. You have a school in Rome?

[brooklynite]

11. Yes; across from the Circus Maximus

Boarding and Day students; I escaped from a New England prep school for my senior year.

[whistler162]

12. Nope I already know where Italy is...

besides it is on past my bedtime.

[mnhtnbb]

13. Yes. Makes me want to go to Italy again!

I've been invited to a joint 70th birthday dinner in Lucca in early September with friends from high school, all turning 70 this year. Some of them cooked up the idea at our 50th reunion two years ago.

I'm not optimistic international travel will be ok by then. One of the women responsible for the idea has booked 3 months in Lucca at an Airbnb apartment! She and her husband love the city.

It's the kind of trip I'd make in a heartbeat if things were normal. And then I'd visit friends in France.

Sigh. So, for now, I'm visiting Italy vicariously with Stanley Tucci. Love the series!