Word: prosciutto
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...glass plant on Milan's outskirts; 2) moving into the recording business; 3) continuing its forays into the pop field, having just launched an 18-year-old, blue-jeaned, guitar-whanging singer named Giorgio Gabor (no kin). Ricordi executives hope that Giorgio will turn out to be a prosciutto version of Presley...
...meat. "I won Goodyear Tire & Rubber over to pink champagne," he once boasted to a companion. Unexcelled at spreading a gourmet's table, even for the American Trucking Associations, he delighted in explaining to slightly befuddled clients that turtle soup was a better first course than melon prosciutto for the simple reason that melon prosciutto was undignified. Such was his deftness in pushing wines that Waldorf guests annually drain 11,700 gallons of supreme French vintages...
...Marc Slonim, is saturated with what Critic Cyril Connolly once called "the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love, and with the remorse which is the shadow of that sun." Serving up life as if it were a huge platter of prosciutto and melon, the Italian authors offer highly palatable reading on such subjects as the folly of an old fool in love (Pratolini's A Mistress of Twenty, Italo Svevo's This Indolence of Mine), the dark rapture of revenge (Cesare Pavese's The Leather Jacket...
...Mike moved to the fashionable Maumee River section of the city, buying a big white stucco house with "the biggest mortgage on the block." There, some 25 Di Salles of three generations 'and any number of guests converge on weekends. They devour mountains of Myrtle's antipasto, prosciutto, spaghetti, pork and chicken, and then, with a pot of caffe espresso at hand, swim for the rest of the afternoon in the warm gurgling current of Italo-American argument and gossip...
...death of his friend, Italy's Poet Alessandro Manzoni. The Requiem's melting arias, its thumping drums of doom and trumps of wrath have been damned as operatic. In this recent recording of the Mass, Basso Pinza and the chorus sing superbly, Tenor Gigli sounds prosciutto (Italian ham), Maestro Serafin conducts with shattering intensity. Album of the month...