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...brief stroll down Hanover Street in the North End would fool a casual observer into believing that Boston is rife with authentic Italian restaurants, each serving a credible interpretation of home cooking straight from the mother country. They would have you fancy that grandma is cooking in the kitchen, whipping up regional dishes from her youth, while her husband jovially greets customers out front and the grandkids wash plates and bus tables. But Boston is a far cry from Italy, and save a few notable exceptions, these restaurants are tourist traps, offering identical menus with adulterated American creations such...
...competitive both in quality and price." Construction companies and local laborers will benefit too, from subsidies to build roads, waste-treatment plants and other infrastructure. The young and educated will gain opportunities for study and work abroad. That optimistic thought contributes to what Estonian pollster Ainar Voog calls the "Grandma Factor" - older people, who might end up losing out from enlargement themselves, "support entry because they see it will be good for their children and grandchildren." The 80,000 pages of laws and regulations attached to the E.U.'s admission ticket are sweeping away a lot of fond familiar ways...
...like a third grandma to me,” said David S. Garsh, who is now a senior at Connecticut College. “Beside my family, I was closest with...
KRAFT'S IT'S PASTA ANYTIME Universally panned. Florence called it "the archnemesis of your Italian grandma," and Casella thought the 3-min. pasta was "starchy" and remarked the sauce was "bitter and desperately needed salt." All noted that pouring a jar of sauce over home-cooked pasta would be tastier and about as simple...
...plunked Stephanie and a cast of oddball characters--Lula, the plump ex-hooker; Grandma Mazur, who hangs out at Stiva's Funeral Home because it's "the nerve center of the news network"--in an area known as the Burb, near Trenton (also near Evanovich's hometown). "If the Burb was a food, it would be pasta," writes Evanovich. "Penne rigate, ziti, fettuccine, spaghetti and elbow macaroni...