What I Ate in One Year Quotes

“Yes, hope is hard to find, but it can often be found at the table. And tables are easy to build.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“In so many attempts to save time, so many other things are wasted.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“The third is that we die and find that death is a table resplendently set with an extraordinary meal for us and all those we've ever loved to share for the rest of eternity”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“However, food is just there. A beautiful, varied thing waiting to bring satiety and solace and offer hope while death and arithmetic haunt me.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Home-cooked food strengthens our bonds when we are together, keeps us connected when we are apart, and sustains the memory of us when we have passed away.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“I am a soup lover. To me soup may be the greatest culinary invention. It can be made with two ingredients or two hundred twenty-two ingredients. It can be served hot or cold. It can be cooked fast or slow. It can be eaten for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. It can be vegetarian, vegan, paleo, pescatarian, or carnivorian. It can be simple or complex. It comforts, it soothes, it refreshes, and it restores. Soup is life in a pot.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Never give up. Especially when it comes to soup.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Eating a simple dish gives one clarity. Pasta with butter and cheese laughs in the face of our complex lives.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Manhattan. The city. New York, New York. The city so nice they named it twice.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“It must seem that the dish came into being because it was just meant to be. Like true love. Unfortunately, neither is easy to find. Nonetheless, we continue the search.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“I am a soup lover. To me soup may be the greatest culinary invention. It can be made with two ingredients or two hundred twenty-two ingredients. It can be served hot or cold. It can be cooked fast or slow. It can be eaten for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. It can be vegetarian, vegan, paleo, pescatarian, or carnivorian. It can be simple or complex. It comforts, it soothes, it refreshes, and it restores. Soup is life in a pot.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year:

“What’s important is they learn to love home cooking.
Strengthens our bounds when we are together.
Keeps us connected when we are apart.
Sustains the memory of us when we’ve passed away.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Rich, deep, dark, joyful, melancholic, comforting; a flawless liquid fermented in history and myth.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year:

“The place was packed with shoppers buying books for Christmas presents, which was a reassuring and literal sign that literature is indeed a gift.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“...the idea of communing through food is beautiful and something to be celebrated.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“They have their day jobs but cull from what they cultivate to create the basis of their diet. I would like the kids to experience that. Not such a bad way to live.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Human beings need one another because we can give each other so much, especially hope, but we often forget this... We also need the earth and what it gives us, but we often forget this too... Yet the two are inextricably linked. Communing with one another with what is given to us by the earth, meaning its bounty, is one of the most crucial components of the life cycle. This communion can ameliorate, unite, elate, stave off conflicts, and create long-lasting bonds of friendship and love.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Time cooking with someone you love is time well spent.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“...his characters are so unhappy because they all live the way they think they should live but not how the want to live, and how their ideas of life get in the way of action and truth”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Movement is life affirming and life extending”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“...so I went alone. (I'm so brave.)”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“And besides all that, I miss the actual act of cooking. Choosing the recipes, finding the produce, prepping it, cooking it, serving it, and eating it. The satisfaction and joy that those simple acts bring is made even greater when what is served is shared. Sharing food is one of the purest human acts.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“It's like the second performance of a play that's gone well on opening night. Any attempt to repeat the same performance fails dismally because it's an idea of a memory”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Quite simply, I am drawn to the past more than I am the future... I am physical kinesthetic, tactile. Through touch, I take in information... I want to dig a hole in the earth and find the remains of something that was once something of importance, no matter how minor, to someone many years ago and imagine what their life was like.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Anyway, whether we indulge them a bit or not, what's important is that they learn to love home cooking. Home-cooked food strengthens our bonds when we are together, keeps us connected when we are apart, and sustains the memory of us when we have passed away.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“[He] loves good food and drink, which might be the most important criteria for a friendship.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Like my father, an art teacher, did with us when we were children, I have always encouraged my children to draw and paint. Though you all may be working separately, there is a bond that is silently happening between you. Sharing each other's drawing when you've finished is the completion of that bond.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“I am a soup lover... It can be simple or complex. It comforts, it soothes, it refreshes, and it restores. Soup is life in a pot.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“Being a part of a group of strangers from all over the globe, brought together by food, our voices raised in song beneath the fading splendor of sixteenth-century frescoes on a cold Roman night, had a profound emotional effect on all three of us... I didn't want the singing to end, but like all good things, it did because it had to.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year

“It was evident that the chef was vying for some kind of recognition from the entities that give recognition to chefs. I find this unfortunate. In film and theater, one can feel an actor trying too hard... They are showing us how well they are acting, instead of simply just being. They believe that this behavior will garner them awards, and unfortunately sometimes it does. But no person should ever do what they do to win awards, because their work will reek of desperation and therefore never ring true. Or, in the case of a chef, taste good.”
― Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year