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Joseph Margliaro describes his Highland Avenue business as an "old-fashioned Italian neighborhood bakery," the lifeblood of local college cannoli fans. La Contessa is a humming factory of sweet morsels like macaroons, almond bars and biscotti which emerge from the barn-sized oven perfectly crispy and begging to be devoured. All of the sumptuous pastries follow traditional recipes which can be traced back to the kings of Italy. Joseph began learning the trade as a young child and has been polishing his baking technique for 68 years (La Contessa itself has been tempting palates for four decades.) While other bakeries...
...fashioned white van graced with a goofy baby-blue rabbit comes rolling up playing Pop Goes the Weasel. But the trip is mostly in vain. Kids have long ago learned that a nickel in their pocket is hardly enough to purchase a Popsicle, let alone a toasted-almond...
...worth paying eight dollars to go see, but it's good enough to warrant renting it and rounding out the rest of the ticket price with a nice pint of Swiss Almond Haagen Daaz. Split the cost with friends. The best of both worlds, the perfect 24 hours. Sleep-overs with your girls filled with Ricki-Lake-style outbursts of "Leave him" and "Should've stabbed her when you had the chance"'s, followed by righteous indignation after confronting your male peers in the morning about the illnesses of patriarchy. Better yet, call the boys up in the middle...
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. Mark Twain...
Leslie Chamberlain came to Wilmington from St. Louis, Mo., to escape suburban sprawl and find a pretty little place where she could live a neo-Victorian fantasy as the proprietor of a gracious bed and breakfast. Nobody in Wilmington thought the ebullient, almond-eyed woman had a chance of making a B and B work; the town had never had one before, so people assumed it couldn't be done. But in 1990 Leslie and her husband Rick, a physician with good business sense, bought an ornate 1869 brick Victorian house on South Street. After six months of painting, wallpapering...