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...pork roast in pizza dough was invented by Bettoja's husband Angelo, who also prescribed the wines throughout. There are surprisingly few game dishes, but Angelo did contribute a rustic pheasant pate. Desserts include a chocolate and amaretti pie from Parma and one lavish sweet, Sicilian cassata: lemon cake lopped with a heady mixture of rum, chocolate and ricotta. The baking of this elaborately decorated cassata is so distracting a labor that in 1575 the Roman Catholic Church forbade nuns to make it during Holy Week...
Maida Heatter's New Book of Great Desserts (Knopf; $17.50) has two equally good apple tarts: one, with an apricot glaze, might belong on the Thanksgiving or Christmas table. The book's most celebrated item will undoubtedly be her French chocolate loaf cake, the result of "a lifelong search" for the recipe for a particular gateau sold at a French pastry shop in New York City...
Heatter's re-creation of this chocoholic's dream may not be "the ultimate chocolate cake," as claimed by her publisher, but the moist, dense, candy-like confection has one virtue: it is too rich to be addictive. The same could be said of Pearl's Southampton fruit cake, in which eleven varieties of fruit must be allowed to marinate for at least a week in cognac and Grand Marnier...
...there is good news for the calorie-conscious. For them, Heatter proposes a fruit survival cake and a whole-wheat yogurt date-nut gingerbread from Central Europe. One minor coup is the secret of the nut crescents for which the Austrian embassy in Washington, D.C., is renowned. Other fairly easy to make entries include Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' chocolate cookies, chocolate pepper pretzels, Joe froggers cookies (named for the inhabitants of a Marblehead, Mass., frog pond) and an inviting array of souffles and mousses, notably a sour lime mousse with strawberries. Frozen desserts vary from San Francisco ice-cream...
...They [NFL scouts] feel that if I put on a good 20 to 25 pounds, then I'd stand a good shot at playing," Corbat said. "Right now, playing in the NFL, would only be the icing on the cake. If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school I could have gotten more exposure there...