Word: gelato
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...fridge at home) contains 355 ml of soda. Cans in Spain (or at least the ones in my fridge here) hold only 200 ml. At home, Cold Stone Creamery’s “small” portions of ice cream are five ounces. In Spanish gelato shops, a 2.5 ounce scoop is the norm. By American standards, European food portions are tiny, but living abroad, I’ve come to see things in a different light. In reality, American portion sizes are huge, not to mention that they contribute to a national obesity epidemic and they flat...
...Italy's politicians have used their institutional muscle to pile up a glut of privileges. They enjoy the highest rate of chauffeured cars among European governments, the President's headquarters cost four times as much to maintain as Buckingham Palace, and there have even been indignant demands for better gelato at the Parliament cafeteria. Adding to the public's sense that politicians are not to be trusted, 16 of the Italian Parliament's 630 members are convicted felons. All this is feeding a mounting frustration with the institutional pillars of Italy's democracy: the parties and the system for electing...
...same day. In 1993, when Batali helped launch his first restaurant, P, he brought that unaffected Italian sensibility to downtown Manhattan. (He also needlessly added an accent mark to the name of Italy's Po River.) "He was doing some things so simple--things like affogato, which is gelato [Italian ice cream] with a shot of espresso in it. It's a classic in Italian restaurants, but I had never seen it in the U.S. And there it was in the menu at P," says Faith Willinger, author of Eating in Italy and a leading expert on Italian cuisine...
...final Harvard-Yale game as a college student—I also realized I had never come across such leisurely living. Even the garbage men only grudgingly made their way onto the street at eleven, and everyone seemed to content themselves with shopping at the specialty markets, smoking, savoring gelato, and infesting the smart-car traffic with their designer mopeds...
...interrupted by loopy commercials for the Deep Valley Bed, the kind with the old-time mattress that sags in the middle, making prolonged marital discord impossible; Bertha's Kitty Boutique, where doting and guilt-ridden cat owners can find, among other cossets, a special cat ice cream called Gatto Gelato to cool kitty's tongue on hot days; and, of course, the celebrated Powdermilk Biscuits ("Heavens, they're tasty!"), which "give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done...