Catherine Raynes: An Inside Job and What I Ate In One Year

An Inside Job by Daniel Silva  

Gabriel Allon has been awarded a commission to restore one of the most important paintings in Venice. But when he discovers the body of a mysterious woman floating in the waters of the Venetian Lagoon, he finds himself in a desperate race to recover a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci. 

The painting, a portrait of a beautiful young girl, has been gathering dust in a storeroom at the Vatican Museums for more than a century, misattributed and hidden beneath a worthless picture by an unknown artist. Because no one knows that the Leonardo is there, no one notices when it disappears one night during a suspicious power outage. No one but the ruthless mobsters and moneymen behind the theft—and the mysterious woman whom Gabriel found in a watery grave in Venice. A woman without a name. A woman without a face. 

  

What I Ate In One Year by Stanley Tucci  

‘Sharing food is one of the purest human acts' 

Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tucci’s life: from stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheon, to marinara sauce cooked between rehearsals and costume fittings, to home-made pizza eaten with his children before bedtime. 

In What I Ate in One Year Tucci records twelve months of eating, in restaurants, kitchens, film sets, press junkets, at home and abroad, with friends, with family, with strangers, and occasionally just by himself. 

Ranging from the mouth-wateringly memorable, to the comfortingly domestic, to the infuriatingly inedible, the meals memorialized in this diary are a prism through which he reflects on the ways his life, and his family, are constantly evolving. Through food he marks – and mourns – the passing of time, the loss of loved ones, and prepares himself for what is to come. 

 

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be time to catch up with our book reviewer
Katherine Rains for her recommendations this weekend. Hey you, Catherine,
Hi Jack. Two very different sounding books for us this morning,
but both of them tantalizing in their own ways. Let's
begin with the latest from Daniel Silver An inside Job.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
So Gabrielle on and his last few books, had resigned
from Massad and his favorite activity is restoring paintings. So
together with his wife Chiara and his two children, they
live in Venice and they run a company that's about
restoring art, and life's pretty good for him. He's kind
of worrying about his daughter Irene a little bit. He's
a bit of an activist streak, and his son Rafael,
who's great at mathson but also has his father's talent

(00:51):
for art. And then all of a sudden, life, of course,
becomes less peaceful when he finds a body floating in
the waters of Venice and it turns out to be
a restorer of art who used to work in the
art department at the Vatican. And Gabrielle of course still
sees and remembers things that others don't and make mental
connections that others miss, and he gets involved in situations
that he just won't let go of until he works

(01:12):
out what has gone on. And questions lead Gabrielle to
this unknown Leonardo da Vinci painting which the role was
in a financial scandal and concerns the Vatican and it
might become a real disaster for the Church. So he
follows the threat of the story from its lead to France,
to art experts, to multiple countries, to organized crime, to
the in the workings of the Vatican. And it's not

(01:33):
so much now a spy novel. It's more an art
heist novel, and it's really focused on that financial world
and the world of art, and it's fast paced and
the secrets and art history and the Vatican and lots
of beautiful localities and planning your twists and turns and
the action unfolds you around you like almost like you're
on a cinematic journey.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, well that sounds fantastic. He's so good A Daniel Silva. Yeah, yeah,
there's a reason he's ye taught the best seller this
how many times? So that's an inside job. His latest
read next up, What I Ate In One Year by
Stanley Pucci.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
So Stany Tucci is an actor and he's starred in
various movies. Probably the one he's most well known for
is The Devil. Weres Prouder. And this is a foody memoir.
And he writes this from January the second, twenty twenty
three to January the second, twenty twenty four, and there's
recipes and things about his travels and about his family
and his children and friends and friends of friends sharing meals,

(02:27):
and that reads like diary entries with the actual dates
throughout the year, and he sometimes actually talks about what
his wife and kids ate on a particular day and
the other life happenings that are going on. And there's
these beautifully mouth watering details of the meals and those
simple home cooked dishes to these extravagant feasts at high
end restaurants. And he has this reliability to connect food

(02:50):
with personal memories and cultural insights. And you get recipes
throughout the book that invite you to try some of
those dishes. And he knows his food, and he relishes
food and the role that it plays, and you know,
he just reflects, but on his personal life and his
parenting and his children and his wife Felicity, and he
balances worth humor and a bit of self reflection and yeah,

(03:11):
and those memorable meals that he has. And it's not
just about food, it's about connection. But it almost almost,
I might say, inspires you to spend some time in
the kitchen experimenting with new foods and recipes.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Almost almost. Yeah, Yeah, you weren't pushed over the edge. Yeah,
because he's had he's had one of two TV shows
doing the same thing. Yeah. Yeah, he has memoir kind
of yeah, sorry you go.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
He's written a memoir before Taste as well, so it
kind of follows along from that.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
It's fantastic, all right, looking forward to both of those.
Thank you, Catherine. So what I Ate in one year
is the new read from Stanley Tucci. An Inside Job
is Daniel Silver's latest. We'll make sure all the details
for both of those are up on the News Talks
the website for

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