No shortage of treats for the foodies in your life this Christmas. Actor and director Stanley Tucci’s Taste: My Life Through Food (Fig Tree, £20; Tablet price £18) should satisfy cinephiles with a passion for food through exuberant and tender descriptions of Tucci’s early meals at home with his Italian American family, and recipes woven into the text. He humorously chronicles the different types of on-set catering and name-drops with abandon, drawing parallels between the “schizophrenic behaviour” of restaurant workers and actors. Towards the end, Tucci intimately reveals how his eating habits changed after a cancer diagnosis.