Word: cornetto
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...table. I shook my head. “Baptized by fire then. Literally. Ha! Well don’t worry. If Giuseppe is still here, you’ll be okay.” He pointed to a gangly 20-year-old stuffing his face with a day-old cornetto. Giuseppe waved, and the powdered sugar stuck to his puffed cheeks blew into the wind. The chef handed me a double-breasted uniform when I showed up that night for the dinner shift. After a brief tour of the kitchen, he introduced me to the other cooks in the kitchen...
...film teems with lines and situations from Shaun of the Dead. "What's the matter, Dann - never taken a shortcut before?" says Pegg to Frost before vaulting over some backyard fences; same as in the earlier film. Or, one guy: "You want anything at the shop?" Other guy: "Cornetto." Or, Frost (with inane bravado): "I'll drive." Also, on a quick trip back to London, Nick enters a store where the clerk is a zombie. Apparently the plague from Shaun hasn't quite been eradicated. Or maybe the two films are parallel stories in the same temporal universe...
...menu is perhaps more important to Italian cuisine than to any other this side of China. This can be a twice-a-day exercise, since most Italians still favor the three-course midday repast. Italian Cooking in the Grand Tradition (Dial; $24.95), by Jo Bettoja and Anna Maria Cornetto, addresses itself primarily to seasonal family meals and honors the year's special occasions. The two fare ladies, Bettoja from Millen, Ga., and Cornetto from Rome, are former models who run a celebrated Roman cooking school called Lo Scaldavivande (the covered dish). Jo married into an old Roman family, Cornetto...
...wind players, the sackbut was mellow but distinct; it was very effective as part of the continuo at the end of the Magnificat. The recorders suffered from lapses of pitch endemic to the instrument (in the Ave maris stella), but recovered in the next movement. The three cornetto players overcame an instrument infamous for its difficulty. Their stunning passages of imitation in the Magnificat were the most impressive instrumental display of the evening...
...processional based on Heinrich Isaac's La Mi La Sol exhibited the lavish potentialities of cornetto, sackbut and shawm. The intricate syncopation of this piece is akin to the spirit of many of Gabrielli's horn canzone...