Searching For Italy: Stanley Tucci Visits Sicily

  • Date: 17-Mar-2021
  • Source: Forbes
  • Sector:Tourism
  • Country:Gulf
  • Who else needs to know?

Searching For Italy: Stanley Tucci Visits Sicily

For many of us, Sunday nights won't be quite the same. "Sicily," the final episode of the hit food travel show, Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, will air on CNN at 9PM on March 21, 2021, closing out the first season. The timing of this six-episode series couldn't have been more fortuitous. Closed borders and raging COVID-19 infection rates have put travel to Italy (and most other parts of the world) on hold, indefinitely. Even dining options close to home have been limited by the pandemic-induced spate of restaurant closures and reduced capacity limits“”encouraging more of us to dabble in the kitchen, sometimes for the first time. Forging new social connections“”while staying socially distant“”has been challenging, at best. Then Stanley Tucci, the affable host of Searching for Italy, entered our lives. Each Sunday night for the last five weeks, he whisks us away to a different region, chatting with food producers, chefs, restaurateurs, historians, winemakers, locals, guides, and other experts as he explores various aspects of Italian life revolving around its food-centric culture. So far, the culinary journey has led viewers to Naples and the Amalfi Coast, Rome, Bologna, Milan and Tuscany. On these virtual trips, we are reminded of