You just need to get over the fact that he's not Anthony Bourdain. No one is. Give this show a chance. Episode 1 was turning into the typical show about Naples and pizza and tomatoes and the volcano, and whatever. Not too interesting, but then he went up into the mountains to cook rabbit.
He had me at rabbit. Why Americans don't eat rabbit (except hunters) is a mystery to me and anyone who has ever cooked it in any way, shape, or paella. Let there be a rabbit in every pot! In truth, I want to like this show more than I do, but times are hard now and my cupboard of possible videos is empty. I may have to even break down and watch that series of the tiger guy with the mullet. Save me!
From there they made a zucchini dish that I have to replicate. Bourdain rarely cooked on his show. I'm not complaining, I'm just passing along a fact.
"Oh my god." He needs another superlative, or just skip that part. It starts to get really annoying and someone in the production process should have pointed this out to the host. I'm usually annoyed when on food shows they heap praise on a dish. We can't taste it, so, just shut your trap and eat.
I hate to be a stickler, but Tucci needs a lot of work on his Italian. He certainly speaks it better than his predecessor Bourdain who had an Italian wife and could barely say "please" and "thank you." However, Tucci should be completely comfortable in this language as he's Italian-American and rich (at least richer than I). He tries to make out like he's fluent while it's painfully obvious that he's severely limited in his Italian conversational skills. That is no crime, but dude, hire a tutor!
There are some great moments on the program and it looks spectacular at every corner bar and landscape.
He had me at rabbit. Why Americans don't eat rabbit (except hunters) is a mystery to me and anyone who has ever cooked it in any way, shape, or paella. Let there be a rabbit in every pot! In truth, I want to like this show more than I do, but times are hard now and my cupboard of possible videos is empty. I may have to even break down and watch that series of the tiger guy with the mullet. Save me!
From there they made a zucchini dish that I have to replicate. Bourdain rarely cooked on his show. I'm not complaining, I'm just passing along a fact.
"Oh my god." He needs another superlative, or just skip that part. It starts to get really annoying and someone in the production process should have pointed this out to the host. I'm usually annoyed when on food shows they heap praise on a dish. We can't taste it, so, just shut your trap and eat.
I hate to be a stickler, but Tucci needs a lot of work on his Italian. He certainly speaks it better than his predecessor Bourdain who had an Italian wife and could barely say "please" and "thank you." However, Tucci should be completely comfortable in this language as he's Italian-American and rich (at least richer than I). He tries to make out like he's fluent while it's painfully obvious that he's severely limited in his Italian conversational skills. That is no crime, but dude, hire a tutor!
There are some great moments on the program and it looks spectacular at every corner bar and landscape.