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After compiling a list of the nation's tastemakers to assist in this task, and culling for diversity and the ability to show up at a lunch on three days' notice, I gathered the following people at an Italian restaurant in Los Angeles...
...sodium flavoring that could reproduce the salty taste of canned soups, for instance. Givaudan is also developing low-sodium, low-sugar and low-fat flavors intended to replicate the taste and texture of their full-figured counterparts. "We know how ice cream needs to taste to please an Italian, American or a Swede," says Givaudan spokesman Peter Wullschleger. "Taste and smell are cultural...
...well-received visit to Turkey in November. But over the past few months back in Rome, there has been a steady flow of criticism of the now 80-year-old pontiff, much of which also relates to his rigid views on doctrine, such as his speaking out against an Italian Parliament bill to allow civil unions for gay couples. But perhaps the most visceral criticism came when the Church denied Catholic funeral rites to an Italian victim of Lou Gehrig?s disease, named Piergiorgio Welby, who had campaigned for euthanasia before dying when a doctor unplugged his respirator...
...That very incident is at the center of the latest controversy, after an Italian comedian used an annual city concert in Rome to blast the Pope. Andrea Rivera, one of the MC?s of the concert, said to some 700,000 youths and a national television audience: "I can't stand the fact that the Vatican refused a funeral for Welby but that wasn't the case for [Chilean dictator Augusto] Pinochet or [Spanish dictator Francisco] Franco." He also tried this one-liner: "The Pope says he doesn't believe in evolution. I agree, in fact the Church has never...
...Still, if the Vatican?s collective nerves are a bit frayed these days, it?s not hard to understand why. The recently chosen President of the Italian Bishops Conference, Angelo Bagnasco, has been repeatedly targeted with graffiti-scrawled threats in his hometown of Genoa and elsewhere. On Saturday, Bagnasco received an envelope containing bullets...