But beyond all of that, “The Tucci Cookbook,” in which the recipes are interlaced with reminiscences from two generations of Tuccis, suggests the meaty, saucy ways in which a love of food can bind and govern a family. That love has certainly shaped Stanley Tucci’s life and career, in which cooking and eating seem to be the glues for every relationship, the sidebars to every adventure, the grace notes of every achievement.

“Big Night,” an exuberant celebration of culinary obsession, helped put him on the map in Hollywood. More than a decade later, “Julie & Julia,” in which he played Julia Child’s husband, cemented his reputation as one of the movie business’s nimblest character actors.

He recalled that before that movie was shot he told Meryl Streep, who played Ms. Child: “You and I need to cook together. I don’t mean to be a nudge and I don’t mean to be Method-y, but we need to be in a kitchen together.” At Ms. Streep’s apartment in Manhattan, they prepared a proper French dinner, with a main course of blanquette de veau and, for dessert, a tarte Tatin.

Mr. Tucci, 51, is a proud and avid cook, and at his home in northern Westchester County, not far from Concetta Tropiano’s old stamping grounds, his arsenal of equipment trumps what many restaurants have on hand. In addition to the six burners and acres of counter space in his kitchen, there’s a mammoth stone pizza oven, made in Italy, on the patio outside, along with a gas grill as large as a Fiat, a free-standing paella pan the size of a wading pool, and a coffinlike wood-and-aluminum roasting box, called a Caja China, that can accommodate up to 100 pounds of meat. He likes his dinner parties populous and his friends carnivorous.

Widowed in 2009, he remarried in August, and when he and his bride, Felicity Blunt, 31, tell the story of their courtship, it’s a bloody, gristly narrative.

He first got to know Ms. Blunt, a literary agent, at the wedding on Lake Como, Italy, of her younger sister, the actress Emily Blunt, with whom he and Ms. Streep had appeared in “The Devil Wears Prada.” When he subsequently traveled to London to shoot “Captain America: The First Avenger,” Felicity, who lived there, showed him some of her favorite restaurants.