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In Stanley Tucci‘s culinary imagination, there is one recipe he holds in special esteem, which he often cooks for his celebrity friends and family. It is cod with tomatoes, capers and olives, which, he says, covers many flavour bases, is very healthy and easy to make.
The actor and chef immortalises this very preparation in his new book ‘What I Ate in One Year’, which brings together a year’s worth of meals based on his mantra: ‘sharing food is one of the purest of human acts’. And food has always been part of Stanley Tucci‘s life: from the stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheon, to the marinara sauce cooked between scene rehearsals and costume fittings, to the homemade pizza he eats with his children before bedtime.
The Oscar nominee then recalls in his memoirs and recipes the baccala alla Livornese, a fish dish cooked with tomatoes, olives and capers. It is a star recipe that, as she recounts, she would prepare for a special occasion with Harry Styles one evening in September. I had cod livornese for the first time in a little restaurant in Little Italy, New York, about 40 years ago, and it was perfect. I’ve been trying to match it ever since,’ the actor tells PEOPLE.
Tucci recalls the British singer coming to dinner at his London home with his wife Felicity Blunt. ‘It had been a long time since we’d seen him,’ Tucci wrote. We were ‘just the three of us’. Styles had finished his sold-out tour and was ‘taking a well-deserved break’. To accommodate Harry’s pescatarian diet, Tucci prepared leek and courgette risotto, carrot salad and an ‘easy to make’ fish and tomato dish.
Tucci recalled that they drank tequila and wine, and that Harry brought one of the best single malt whiskies he had ever tasted. The conversation that went with it all was also varied. ‘We talked a lot about books and love. Harry is a voracious reader,’ Tucci wrote.
