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...restaurant shines with dishes such as the Antipasti Della Casa ($16) and the Assiette of Charcuterie ($18). The antipasti includes favorites like sweet and spicy sopressata, wine-cured prosciutto, and aged Parmesan, as well as less common additions like caponata, an Italian dish made with eggplant and raisins, and caper berries, which are eaten like olives. The charcuterie changes daily, according to the chef’s whim. Both are large enough to be shared by three or four people...
That evening, it's time to discover theculinary wonders of the Harvard Union. This is thedining-room-away-from-home, where is 30-minutewait for a plate of caponata spaghetti is nothingunusual, and where first years learn to dine tothe dull roar of 1,600 of their chatteringclassmates. Many believe that the Union, more thananything else, defines the first-year experience.Never again do students eat Chickwiches with agroup the size of some Midwestern towns...
That evening, it's time to discover theculinary wonders of the Harvard Union. This is thedining-room-away-from-home, where a 30-minute waitfor a plate of caponata spaghetti is nothingunusual, and where firstyears learn to dine to thedull roar of 1600 of their chattering classmates.Many believe that the Union, more than anythingelse, defines the first year experience. Neveragain do students eat Chickwiches with a group thesize of some Midwestern towns...
Paula Wolfert's World of Food (Harper & Row; $25) is a solid, serious and sensuous collection of her favorite recipes, sprinkled liberally with her usual didactic asides. A specialist in the cuisines of Morocco, southwest France and the Mediterranean, Wolfert wanders afield and offers up not only caponata, the Sicilian vegetable appetizer, and the fragrant tagine stews of Morocco but also the lusty Alsatian casserole of meat, onions and potatoes known as backeoffe...
...Tapas is being naturalized," says the trim-bearded, tall-toqued chef. "We include many non-Spanish dishes. Anything that suits the idea." He cites such Italian entries as pasta, salads of mozzarella, basil and tomato, and caponata, the Sicilian eggplant relish. Add to that the steak tartare, fish chowder and salmon with aquavit and dill served at the Tapas Restaurant located in north Cambridge, Mass., and it is clear that tapas have be come all-around citizens of the world...
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