Word: nola
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nola Darling, a seriously sexy young woman taking good care of herself in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. As for "It," three men and one woman would each most desperately like to be Ms. Darling's sole provider. But, as Nola puts it, she is just not a one-man (or woman) woman...
...best source for answers, and Mecca to a pasta devotee, is a pastificio, or pasta factory, such as Gerardo di Nola in Castellammare di Stabia, about a 40-minute drive south of Naples. One of Italy's largest producers of premium pasta, it is a bright and airy factory where the starchy aroma suggests tons of boiling pasta. The current president, Gerardo Ronza, is a grandnephew of Gerardo di Nola, who founded the company in 1870. A slender, precise man who lives in an antiques-filled apartment over the factory, Ronza savors the lore and history of his product. Everything...
According to Angelo De Angelis, sales manager of Zia Dora, Gerardo di Nola's U.S. importer, the five most popular shapes are spaghetti, the ridged quill- shaped penne, linguine, the fine angel's hair capelli d'angelo and short, mixed pasta shapes used in minestrone...
Considering that there are 143 shapes available in the Gerardo di Nola catalog, it seems almost churlish to ask Ronza if others are ever made. His answer is to refer to the catalog of the Capitano company, manufacturers of the pasta dies, costing as much as $1,000 apiece, that are used in the industry. There for the ordering are 425 variations on the pasta theme, not only alternative sizes of current shapes, but vanished, not-quite-forgotten birds, animals, man-in-the-moon-profile crescents, tiny notched wheels that look like watch gears and a variety of other small...
Bergman added that he was "very worried" about the fate of the severely damaged Nola region, located between Naples and Avellino, which contains frescoes dating from the fourth to 13th centuries...