Have you seen Stanley Tucci’s Searching for Italy?
So if you’re looking for a new job for the new year, maybe you’ll find inspiration here?
1. Limoncello maker / lemon grower
Live on a cliff on the Amalfi coast, grow big juicy lemons, turn them into limoncello, drink in the sunshine? Sign me right up!
2. Food consultant
I will be honest with you here: I don’t really know what this involves.
But from what I can gather, it involves being best friends with Stanley Tucci and talking about foodie things on films?
I happen to think I make a decent friend, and I can certainly (probably?) consult on food — I could eat the food, for sure.
3. Prosciutto di Parma DNA-tester
In 2017, a fake prosciutto di Parma scandal rocked the Italian ham industry, and was eventually cracked in a phone-tapping and undercover surveillance operation that seized and confiscated a million fake hams: eat your heart out, The Wire.
As a result of this, they carefully DNA test all the hams now — as far as I can tell, this also involves lots of sniffing of prosciutto, and tasting it, too. See you there, Stringer Bell.
4. Parmesan-whisperer
In the Rome episode, off they trot to a parmesan producer to watch them wash the giant cheeses, baby them in a salt bath, whisper sweet nothings to them — before cracking them open and taking a nibble. I might need help lifting the giant wheels, but I’d be excellent at the rest of it. Just think of the cheese boards we could make!
5. Stanley Tucci (being, not doing)
Is anyone hiring in this department? I feel like I’d be great in this role.
I have some passable Italian, I have his good cheekbones, I’m just as good a cook, I look great in chinos (maybe, I dunno, let’s try it), I enjoy friendly banter, I’ll travel anywhere — and I’m really, really good at eating.
My date let me drag him to the cocktail bar that Stanley Tucci goes to in Milan 🥰 and we were rewarded with the best. Repeat: BEST. Cocktails. Ever. pic.twitter.com/jpw0TBLwug
— Rachel Fox 🇬🇧 London + FMTY (@RachelFoxLondon) October 8, 2023
Don’t worry, your favourite brunette foodie isn’t hanging up her dancing shoes just yet — but if you don’t want me to run off to a truffle farm in Italy, I’d get in touch pretty pronto… it’s really very tempting…
Rachel
