Word: risottos
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...next morning, a pixieish 37-year-old named Darcie Purcell (whose business card reads "Brand Manager--Mario Batali") led Batali into a conference room to see finished versions of new items in his cookware line for the first time. A $100 risotto pan weighing an astonishing 12 lbs. came out first. "Wow," Batali said proudly. "You're not gonna be lifting this up with one hand." But there was bad news: the kitchenware chain Sur La Table wouldn't be buying the pan--"too niche," apparently...
...When I met Lidia Bastianich for the first time about a year ago (see The Matron Saint of Pasta and Risotto con Aragosta), she told me Del Posto would be open by summer 2005. Then it was October, then November, and on and on. At some point I stopped asking; the tension over construction costs and delays was obvious. Batali has a staggering array of national ventures to push this year-a partnership with NASCAR (for whom Batali has written a tailgating cookbook, to be published in April), his lines of cookware and packaged foods, three (three!) new restaurants...
...CIAO! CIAO!? It's lunchtime in Milan, Italy, when most Milanese traditionally settle into a nice plate of risotto. But inside the Dolce & Gabbana flagship store on Via della Spiga, the mood is frantic, with shoppers young and old slapping down credit cards for the label's signature $2,900 pin-striped pantsuits and $3,500 fur-trimmed coats. It seems there are not enough salespeople to handle the traffic, so Alberto Addis, the store's visual merchandiser, is lending a hand, greeting two women who have wandered past the acres of shiny black-glass walls and Murano-glass...
MOST ESOTERIC CULINARY STATUS SYMBOL Squid ink. It is favored as a murky, caviar-like sauce for pasta or the Italian rice triumph, risotto...
...College was supposed to have completed renovating all of the house dining halls by last summer. Mather got left in the lurch. As a consolation, we were given a biweekly “culinary display,” featuring some sort of special dish like risotto. Once the promised renovations were set to begin, these displays shut down...