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...Dolce Italiano: Desserts from the Babbo Kitchen (Norton) Gina DePalma, pastry chef at Mario Batali's restaurant Babbo, shares her dessert recipes, as well as her expertise on Italian culture...
...American milieu in this comedy-drama were any more overfamiliar and phony, it'd be served at The Olive Garden with unlimited breadsticks and salad. In case you should ever forget the ethnicity of the characters, the soundtrack is packed with Frank Sinatra tunes, "That's Amore" and "Mambo Italiano," and there's actually a character with the surname Buttafucco (sic). That said, this series, about Lydia DeLucca (Heather Paige Kent), a 32-year-old New Jersey woman who ditches her troglodyte fianc? to go back to college, is cleverly directed and makes a few fresh observations. The DeLucca family...
Their six other restaurants are flourishing; Bastianich estimates that they collectively serve 2,000 people a night. Last year the James Beard Foundation named Batali its Outstanding Chef--the top award a U.S. cook can win. This year the foundation has nominated Molto Italiano, Batali's 2005 book, as best international cookbook and Del Posto as best new restaurant. The winners will be announced at a Manhattan gala on May 8, a few days after Batali returns from cooking chicken thighs and tortilla casserole for scores of NASCAR drivers, crewmen, and their families at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega...
...introduction to his 522-page magnum opus, Molto Italiano, chef Mario Batali reflects on the frenzy that now accompanies the opening of many American restaurants. "In recent years," he writes in the cookbook, which was published last May, "we seem to care more about the opening of a new restaurant than we do the opening of a new play or a new version of Don Giovanni by the local opera company. This makes me happy, but at the same time, it makes me just a little...
Smart and stinging--that was Bancroft at her best. Born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano, she was groomed as a standard babe when Hollywood signed her at 20. It was like fitting a firestorm for a corset. She returned to New York City, and in 1958 became a Broadway star as the spirited Gittel in William Gibson's Two for the Seesaw. The next year she found her great role, as Annie Sullivan, the half-blind teacher of the blind and deaf Helen Keller, in Gibson's The Miracle Worker. Bancroft's ferocity, starkly colliding and beautifully meshing with Patty Duke...