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Despite the allure of the pizza and pasta at Ippolito's River Restaurant, Betty will not return to Derby next year. After she receives her degree in economics this June, she will head for New York City, where she will work as a business analyst for American Express...
Laid on at a cost of $4,000, it was a banquet fit for a movie king: white and green pasta, chicken with mozzarella and prosciutto, strawberries dipped in chocolate, vintage wine. Francis Ford Coppola, 41, the director of the Godfather films and Apocalypse Now, had invited 100 journalists to inspect the most elaborate toy a movie-mad boy could hope to own: Zoetrope Studios, the 10½-acre Hollywood production lot he bought early in 1980 to make his own films and those of fiercely loyal independent moviemakers he has invited to join him. This, he hoped, would...
...Italians, fortunately, are resistant to culinary trends. After all, pasta is pasta is pasta. Nevertheless, ever since the tales of Marco Polo's bringing back ice cream and noodles from the Far East, Italy has been receptive to worthy new dishes and techniques. This apertura is explored in The New Italian Cooking (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $15) by Margaret and G. Franco Romagnoli, who in two previous books have done a commendable job of explicating la cucina italiana for Americans. Their new book largely concerns itself with the adaptation of traditional recipes to contemporary methods and lifestyles: using an electric...
...that they can splurge on exotica. Jamail's, the premier gourmet store in Houston, offers this kind of shopper a spectrum of choices from Van Camp's pork and beans to shark meat pâté. Moreover, epicurean dining need not be exorbitant. Fine Italian pasta at $2.10 per lb. makes a cheaper meal than American beef tenderloin at about $4 per lb. Says Frank Cloudt, who owns a gourmet grocery in Atlanta: "People would rather have an exquisite beef stew than a mediocre steak...
Gourmet shops have also benefited from the trend toward two-income families. When the husband and wife come home too tired to cook and yet unwilling to pay inflated restaurant prices, they often pick up dinner at gourmet shop takeout counters. At Pasta, Pasta, Pasta in Los Angeles, a family of four can walk out with a freshly made lasagna dinner for $8.95. A comparable meal in a restaurant could cost $50. Le Marmiton in Santa Monica sells provisions for the perfect picnic. Its Basket for Two Lovers, for example, includes cold sirloin in aspic and a salad of mushrooms...