Word: pizzas
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...doing it, and to do it you need an orchestra. "You have no instrument to practice," Alsop told TIME. "You can't get any experience." In her 20s Alsop worked as a freelance violinist in New York City, but after hours she would bribe her musician friends with pizza to let her lead them through Mozart symphonies. When she couldn't get a regular conducting position, she founded her own ensemble, the Concordia Orchestra. Never let it be said that Alsop's resolve is less than steely...
...torture committed by a foreigner in another country, Zardad was convicted of human-rights violations while ruling the region of Sarobi outside Kabul from 1992-96. On hearing his sentence, Zardad, who left Afghanistan in 1998 to escape the Taliban and was arrested in 2003 while managing a pizza parlor in London, raised his fist and shouted "Allah is great...
...reinvent one of the world's favorite quick snacks? Competing teams of culinary inventors think they have a novel answer: pizza in a cone. Eating a slice on the run can be messy, so food scientists have cooked up a new conical concept that is catching on in Europe and will soon hit the U.S. This summer Konopizza expects to open shops in Indonesia, Kuwait, Spain and Greece. The chain was founded by Rossano Boscolo, a well-known Italian chef, who prides himself on the fact that the shops' single servings are hustled out of a high-powered oven...
Konopizza has an American competitor in Crispy Cones, founded by culinary entrepreneur Nir Adar, who developed his own version of portable pizza. Adar is opening a shop in Los Angeles this fall and has investors lined up to support a frozen version to be sold in grocery stores. He wants to take the concept beyond pepperoni and prosciutto. Crispy Cones' menu features not just pizza but also a range of conical chow, including chicken, chili and fruit. Besting the Konopizza prep time of three minutes, Crispy Cones is counting on partially prebaked cones to cut retail oven-to-plate time...
Jurors in the original trial convicted Pring-Wilson of stabbing Colono, then 18 years old, during an April 12, 2003 confrontation outside Pizza Ring on Western Avenue. Pring-Wilson testified that he attacked Colono in self-defense, after being beaten by Colono and his cousin, Samuel L. Rodriguez—both of whom had prior criminal records involving drugs and violence. But prosecutors claimed Pring-Wilson had started the fight...