Word: parma
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...accompanied by egg and lemon sauce. A savory pork roast in pizza dough was invented by Bettoja's husband Angelo, who also prescribed the wines throughout. There are surprisingly few game dishes, but Angelo did contribute a rustic pheasant pate. Desserts include a chocolate and amaretti pie from Parma and one lavish sweet, Sicilian cassata: lemon cake lopped with a heady mixture of rum, chocolate and ricotta. The baking of this elaborately decorated cassata is so distracting a labor that in 1575 the Roman Catholic Church forbade nuns to make it during Holy Week...
...Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man opens on Primo (Ugo Tognazzi), a hard-working salt-of-the-earth type who has realized the capitalist dream in the form of his own cheese factory outside Parma in northern Italy. The first hint of conflict s straightforward and understandable enough: Primo's leftist-leaning only child Giovanni (Riki Tognazzi) presents him with a birthday gift of a flare-gun and binoculars, accompanied by a note deriding Primo's latest purchase, a yacht Visibly stung by the rebuke, Primo ascends to his factory's roof to survey his domain. In the distance he sees...
...death threats from members of the public. The first came in 1974 after he dismissed charges against eight Ohio National Guardsmen involved in the Kent State killings. He won more enemies when he ordered desegregation of local schools and when he directed the nearly all-white suburb of Parma to build low-and moderate-income housing. For the past five years, Battisti has had around-the-clock protection from two U.S. marshals...
...however, does not plan to sign it until he receives his attorney general's opinion on the bill's constitutionality. That recommendation could depend on a federal judge's ruling on one of the model's first offspring, a law enacted by the city of Parma, Ohio. The decision may also determine whether or not anti-paraphernalia legislation has a future...