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...less than a million people: the outlying Comfort Inns are soon followed by an onslaught of billboards with ensorcelling pictures of the steaks and pastas and chicken Caesars available at the fungible establishments calling themselves O?Charley's or Olive Garden or, if you?re very lucky, Carrabba's Italian Grill. (Check out the July issue of Consumer Reports for detailed ratings on 103 U.S. restaurant chains; Carrabba?s was named top Italian chain, and it tied for third overall behind the pricey Capital Grille and Ruth?s Chris steakhouse chains...
...Applebee's' sense of disembodiment, of radical anti-locality, extends throughout its menu. A "Tuscan Shrimp Salad" bears only a notional relationship to Tuscany, where I have never seen the discordant, more-Asian-than-Italian marriage of almonds, shrimp, sun-dried tomatoes, hot peppers, sweet peppers, and soft lettuce. Were I on Bourbon Street, in New Orleans, and was delivered a steak as bland as the Applebee's "Bourbon Street Steak," I would leave, drink three or four Hurricanes, and call...
...ITALIAN TWO EASY ROSE GRAY AND RUTH ROGERS This is the sixth cookbook from the chef-owners of London's beloved River Café. The book begins with a dozen easy ways to serve first-course mozzarella cheese, and the recipes that follow, all simple and streamlined, celebrate seasonal foods. It will seem like a snap to create meals like fried eggplant with basil and tomato, left, or rich roast duck simmered in Valpolicella wine...
...takes a strong Marine to cry." --LINDSEY GRAHAM, Republican Senator from South Carolina, after General Peter Pace, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tearfully testified at a congressional hearing on immigration about the opportunities the U.S. afforded his father, an Italian immigrant...
...century B.C. marble relief of women offering gifts to a goddess. For decades, Greece has noisily lobbied for the return of relics--especially the British Museum's Elgin Marbles, which were stripped from Athens' Parthenon in the early 1800s. Its efforts got a big boost last year, when Italian authorities put former Getty antiquities curator Marion True on trial for trafficking in looted works. Then in February, New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art agreed to return to Italy the Euphronios krater, a 2,500-year-old vase...