Anyone familiar with good local food, especially with an Italian flavour, will be attracted by the name Stanley Tucci.
Tucci graduated as an actor in 1982 and has been a fixture on our screens ever since: writing and directing the cult hit Big Night in 1996.
Join Slow Food Noosa for an evening of quality food and cinema in one of Noosa’s most charming and rustic settings for a special film with food evening.
On the bill Sunday, 17 November, at 4pm will be food produced by Josh Smallwood of Noosa Cartel offering a three-course dinner of Italian cuisine with locally sourced produce.
Big Night will be the film featured and shows how Tucci has been linked with food throughout his career.
He appeared with Meryl Streep in Julie and Julia, in 2009. This was the heart-warming movie set in France and based on the true story of a culinary legend providing the inspiration for a disillusioned amateur to find a new recipe for life.
Tucci’s best-loved role was opposite Streep in The Devil Wears Prada, as he has also appeared in The Hunger Games series.
Having earned numerous accolades, including six Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Tony Award, he has expanded his career to take in writing – a diary called What I Ate in One Year, about supporting a close family spanning in age from six to 94.
Then there his other great love – food. His show, Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, took him from Milan to Venice, cooking, eating, basking in the grand pleasure of discovering the foods of the different regions.
Big Night is an American comedy-drama film co-directed by Campbell Scott and Tucci.
Set in the 1950s on the Jersey Shore, the film follows two Italian immigrant brothers, played by Tucci and Tony Shalhoub, as they host an evening of free food at their restaurant in an effort to allow it to gain greater exposure.
The film’s supporting cast includes Minni Driver, Ian Holm, Isabella Rossellini and Allison Janney.
Local chef Josh Smallwood of Noosa Cartel will prepare a three-course dinner in keeping with the movie’s theme.
Josh is just back from Italy as one of four Slow Food Noosa delegates sponsored to attend the Slow Food international festival Terra Madre Salone del Gusto in Turin.
The menu for the night with film comprises:
Entrée: Locally sourced antipasto including house made focaccia by Noosa Cartel chef Josh McLucas, Slow Food Victoria’s James Mele’s The Meat Room salami, and cured meats from Brisbane’s Saison Smallgoods; buffalo mozzarella from Brisbane’s Cassa Motta; and organic marinated olives from Victoria’s Mount Zero.
Main: Abbacchio alla romano – Victorian Sovereign Lamb slow-cooked in simmering white wine with Noosa Red tomatoes, sage and rosemary, polenta and Buderim’s Good Harvest Organic Farm sauteed leafy greens.
Dessert: Kenilworth Dairies yoghurt panna cotta and Amrita Park Meadery honey and blood orange confiture served with an amaretti biscuit.
Doors and bar open at 4pm. Movie starts at 5pm. Dinner 6pm.
Bookings: Majestic Theatre – www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1309895
