Stanley Tucci - Taste - March 2023 Book Group discussion thread
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Mar 2023
9:49pm, 7 Mar 2023
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Ocelot Spleens
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Mar 2023
9:50pm, 7 Mar 2023
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Ocelot Spleens
January was better. |
Mar 2023
6:13pm, 9 Mar 2023
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Serendippily
An easy read and i was delighted he loved Babettes Feast. And there is actually a couple of recipes ill use. Tucci has a distinctive voice and i found it mildly annoying - mostly when he says how annoying he’s being. Unsurprisingly he’s a bit of a lovey. The final chapters i found outright interesting. Gave it an 8
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Mar 2023
7:23pm, 9 Mar 2023
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Serendippily
Gosh Ocelot Spleens are you spamming the book thread for not reading enough? Thats a bit harsh this is a very gentle thread where everyone takes it in turn to suggest something and a core wade through it earnestly with all droppers in welcomed. Im currently behind by about four months and read this out of order as it was in stock at the local library I wonder if he has been writing most of this book for some years and covid and cancer suddenly made him finish. So many stories concern earlier and his first wife |
Mar 2023
7:24pm, 9 Mar 2023
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Serendippily
The bit on keith floyd was quite endearing
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Mar 2023
7:36pm, 9 Mar 2023
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Ocelot Spleens
Serendippily No. I look occasionally in these things I also read the book thread, quite a lot actually, but say bugger all as I am not the least bit interested in most of the choices in any way at all. Tucci I thought I might be, and thought others might be. It turns out I'm not, it also looks like not many othersare either. I like a cook book. I like cooking stuff, I am not particularly bothered about the person. Virtually the only exception that is sport, quite regularly not even those after I have read them. |
Mar 2023
7:44pm, 9 Mar 2023
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Serendippily
In fairness ive hated my last few choices but I appreciate the range
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Mar 2023
7:56pm, 9 Mar 2023
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Ocelot Spleens
Yes. That's the trouble with books, what someone else likes, even if it seems they have enjoyed the same stuff as you before, is no indication as to if you would like it too. If I ever get around to sticking my list in a blog you'll see I end up going down fairly narrow paths. I also already have 4 Italian cook books. |
Mar 2023
9:00am, 19 Mar 2023
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LindsD
I don't know what it was about this that I found so bland (no pun intended). I like Stanley Tucci, I like food, I like stories. It was just so boring. It slid over the surface of my brain somehow. I didn't even care about the illness part, and usually I love a good illness tale, especially with a positive ending. I just didn't find the stories interesting. Meh. I thought I might go back and make some of the recipes but I probably won't. It will be too annoying to try and find them on my Kindle. Actually some of the footnotes were quite amusing. I gave it a 5.
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Mar 2023
9:02am, 19 Mar 2023
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LindsD
I think it was me, not the book
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