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...menus, both aristocratic and earthy, exude all the warmth and good humor of la cucina Italiana at its best. For the primo piatto, traditionally pasta or a rice dish or soup, recipes go from the outrageously calorific, like a macaroni concoction with both cream and meat sauces, to simple ricotta croquettes (the ricotta in Rome is made from sheep's milk). To shock the neighbors, there is a fashion able pasta with vodka and red-pepper flakes...
...ARBA plans to use courses such as that offered by the University of Maryland to hasten the day when 'bunny burgers' are popular on the American fast-food menus," the spokesman contended...
...Manhattan, Washington, Chicago and Beverly Hills, three-star cafes are filled with the pungent aromas of Naples and Bologna. Pasta vincit ora/na/Not only the familiar, plebeian spaghetti, macaroni and ravioli, but more than 150 forms of Mediterranean batter, from agnolotti to ziti, have landed in fancy dress on elegant menus. Indeed, just about everywhere, restaurants and cooking schools dedicated to those al dente squares and rounds and ribbons of pearly paste are subverting meat-and-taters America. Exclaims Master Cook James Beard: "It's a pasta avalanche...
...which annually sells the public 700 million lbs. of hamburger and 542 million bushels of fries, has completed a study on the sodium content of Chicken McNuggets, Big Macs and French fries. Customers who request it may now have the information in the form of a booklet with sample menus. Example: Big Mac, French fries and milk...
...Britain, too, the gourmet must be willing to travel. Great British Cooking: A Well-Kept Secret (Random House; $15.50) somewhat exaggerates the paucity of three-star menus in the scept'red isle. It is no longer quite true, as the old saw had it, that the English have only three vegetables, two of them cabbage. However, English-born Jane Garmey roams far and wide to bag the better culinary hand-me-downs. Though a number of great Continental chefs left their imprint on upper-class English fare-Carême, Escoffier, Francatelli and Soyer all lived for years...