Word: pasta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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South Boston, like Kelly, is decked out this week, and what the decorations lack in freshness they make up for in green. The Pizzarama at the corner of Dorchester Ave. sports a host of paper leprechauns under a sign that reads pizza, pasta, subs." Across the street in the window of Charlie's Deli, next to the German sausage and Jewish salami, are enough green hats to outfit the entire IRA. The leisure suits in the window the Bayview Men's Store have given way to the spring collection of "I Love Southie" t-shirts, and down the street...
...school of New York University, which bought a New Jersey noodle factory in 1947 for $3.5 million. After receiving millions in profits over the years from the sale of spaghetti and macaroni, the school sold the company for $115 million in 1976. That may be the only use of pasta to finance higher education, but other novel strategies for coping with the fiscal crunch have yeasted up all over. Among them...
...well-done cookbook is also a sociological document, recording the infinite ways in which people all over the world nourish, titillate and please, borrowing from one culture, lending to another. Even before the Romans planted vines in Southern France, before Marco Polo returned from China bearing the secrets of pasta and ice cream, mankind was engaged in this most civilized exchange. It continues...
...secrecy-conscious Paul ordered strict limits. This time aides to Cardinals are barred but non-electors will nevertheless number to approximately 300 confessors, barbers, medical aides, maintenance men and nuns to prepare relatively simple meals. Trucks were already rumbling into the Vatican last week with sizable quantities of pasta and wine...
From here on out, our heroes' road should be straight, trending gently upward as it passes through the lovely countryside of wealth, fame and success?right? Well, not exactly. Hollywood had trouble believing Eastwood's pasta hits weren't flukes. And when he started to get work back home, he was appalled, "not only at the way money was misused, but also the lack of control that an actor had over the character...