Stanley Tucci is an actor, writer, director, and producer. He has directed five movies and appeared in numerous films, television shows, and plays, on and off Broadway. He has been nominated for an Academy Award, a Tony, and a spoken word Grammy and is a winner of two Golden Globes and six Emmys. A lover of all things culinary, Tucci wrote and directed Big Night, the critically acclaimed movie about two brothers running a failing restaurant, starred in Julie & Julia, and is the host of the Emmy-winning Searching for Italy. He is also pretty adept with a cocktail shaker. He is the author of What I Ate in One Year: (and related thoughts), Taste: My Life Through Food, and two cookbooks, The Tucci Table and The Tucci Cookbook.