Stanley Tucci Shares Tips for First-time Visitors to Italy, Favorite Food Destinations, and 1 Dish Worth Traveling for

"Farmers markets in particular are a way of understanding the people who live in any given place. Not only the produce or products that are sold, but how fresh are they, and where are those products from? Are the majority locally sourced or imported? What are the vendors like that are selling them? Who is shopping there?"

"I use Apple Pay constantly. It has made my life so much simpler, and I rely on Apple Pay when I shop at so many vendors when traveling and at home,"

"Italy is an incredibly complex country historically, politically, ethnically, and geographically, which makes it the perfect culinary melting pot. Spending so much time there over the years has allowed me to better understand who I am and who my relatives were and are,"

Stanley Tucci recommends visiting local markets to learn how important food is to local people and to observe freshness, sourcing, vendors, and shoppers. Farmers markets reveal whether products are locally sourced or imported and show vendor and shopper characteristics. Tucci shares cooking videos and market hauls on Instagram and explores regional cuisines in his travel series, emphasizing food's role in building community. He used Apple Pay to buy ingredients from local shops and to assemble a meal with Italian nonnas. Italy's historical, political, ethnic, and geographic complexity creates a diverse culinary landscape that influenced his personal and familial understanding.

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