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SCOTT CONANT'S NEW ITALIAN COOKING/ SCOTT CONANT Conant combines old World cooking and modern tastes to create a new kind of haute Italian cuisine at his New York City restaurants, Alto and L'Impero. This book allows the home cook to re-create some of his signature dishes, including a sublimely creamy polenta with a fricassee of mushrooms and roasted baby goat. But he also offers quick-cooking dishes and meals to make from what you find in the cupboard as well as informative asides about techniques and wine pairings for each dish...
...central market, framed by its delicate arches. Pick up some fruit or pungent Eritrean spices and wander through the back lanes toward the Catholic cathedral, an imposing red-brick edifice that dominates the skyline. Nearby Liberation Avenue, Asmara's main street, features the gorgeous Art Deco Cinema Impero and Italian-style cafes where craggy old men sip cappuccinos and smoke cigarettes. My favorite Art Deco building is on the outskirts of town: the fantastic Fiat Tagliero gas station, which has long horizontal overhangs that jut out like giant wings from the central building. It's painted in subtle pink...
...Give me an order and I'll remove it." Cried the Duce: "I want a wide road joining the Palazzo Venezia and the Colosseum. Along it shall march Italian youth with its 8,000,000 sharp bayonets. It shall be called the Via dell' Impero...
...months." Interior Minister Mario Scelba announced that the government had 330,000 men under arms, including a special shock force of 150,000 ready to take on the Communists if they tried to make trouble on election day. When the parade reached the end of the Via dell Impero, it suddenly swung left and marched through the Via delle Botteghe Oscure, where Communist headquarters are located. From their windows, Red leaders watched grimly...
...Today, said Matthews, he is the butt of crude jokes. More cynical than Anglo-Saxons, the Italians scorn Mussolini for the unforgivable Italian sin: making a fool of oneself. On May 9 their attitude was bored or ominous silence when Mussolini stalked to the reviewing stand on the Via Impero to celebrate the tragic farce of African Empire...