Word: chianti
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...Lunch, finally, at Chianti, a Melrose Avenue favorite of Molly's. Her usual cuisine is less fastidious: hash browns, fried chicken strips with an orange-whip drink and, a Ringwald special, catsup-drenched onion rings from which the onions have been eviscerated--fried batter au Heinz. Today, though, she orders sliced tomatoes with vinaigrette and char-grilled chicken over shoestring potatoes...
Eisewhere Marques de Riscal, an elegant Bordeaux-like red from Spain's Rioja region, costs $4.99, and there is a $2 mail-in rebate. Rurfino, the largest Chianti producer, offers a $3 rebate on $4.49 bottles of wine. Some stores are offering Italian Dolce Vita white at $3.98 a magnum, plus a second magnum for one penny. The highly regarded Plozner Chardonnay '82 has been reduced from...
...same as they did last year. Even at that, Italy is still a relatively inexpensive place to travel by Western European standards. A first-class meal, including a succulent pasta, a main course of meat, fish or chicken, a salad, dessert, rich espresso coffee and a good bottle of Chianti, can easily be found for less than $26 per person. A meal in a more modest restaurant can go for as little as $8. Gasoline is high-$3.25 per gal.-but that is offset by fares on Italian trains: $14 for a first-class one-way ticket between Rome...
...daughter and an unfulfilled life. Eliza has little instinct for what her mother Josephine calls the "social realities." Josephine is formidable: a successful writer with another daughter and a number of former husbands left in or under the dust. She is also a hardheaded survivor of the spaghetti-and-Chianti bohemian liberalism of the '30s. "Since we are not living in a classless society," says Josephine, "there is no point in pretending that we are. I would fight for the rights of all minorities, write articles, send checks, but I would not necessarily invite them to parties...
...Tessenei, a town that the Eritreans have recently captured, we had good luck-there was a hotel, kept by an Italian, Archimede Parmigiani, 68, who has lived 42 years in Eritrea. There were no other guests. The kitchen had shell holes in the roof, the dusty flasks of Chianti were empty. His family has gone back to Bologna, but Parmigiani stays on. He asks: "What would I do in Bologna after so many years here...