Word: prosecco
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...seafood restaurant in the Italian capital. But a Roman friend told me about Il Tempio di Iside shortly after it opened in 1999 near the Coliseum, and it has become a can't-miss stop on my dining itinerary with visiting friends and family. After a taste of complimentary Prosecco, Italy's gently sparkling white wine, Tempio's affable owner Francesco Tripodi arrives at the table to list the evening's market-fresh offerings in rapid-fire, Calabrian-accented Italian. When it's clear that diners haven't understood a word, he grins and intones: "Do ? You ? Like ? Fish?" Respond...
...After a taste of complimentary Prosecco, Italy's gently sparkling white wine, Tempio's affable owner Francesco Tripodi arrives at the table to list the evening's market-fresh offerings in rapid-fire, Calabrian-accented Italian. When it's clear that diners haven't understood a word, he grins and intones: "Do ... You ... Like ... Fish?" Respond with a simple "Si!" and you're in for the best seafood meal of your life...
...pity more Americans don't enjoy their gnocchi and zucchini flowers with a bottle of prosecco, as celebrity cookbook queen Nigella Lawson does [AT DINNER WITH, May 26]. Too many people are washing down their Wal-Mart hot dogs and fat-free Oreos with Snapple. Or jogging off their egg-white omelets. I would love to see a healthy middle ground between eating junk and starving to be thin. The norm should be voluptuous women and a savoring of good food and long dinners. SHERRY OLSEN San Francisco
...first stop is Beppe, a Tuscan restaurant whose chef Lawson knows. Before we reach our table, she's ordered a bottle of prosecco and French fries with rosemary and oregano. "I love fat," she says. While we wait for our half a dozen appetizers, Lawson launches into her professional history. She tells a good tale, deftly mixing the grandiose and ironic (a recipe in her first book begins, "I first had salsa verde when I was a chambermaid in Florence...") with a healthy sprinkling of famous names. Her father Nigel was a journalist before becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer under...