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...ideas for new menu items--the Cheesecake Factory's version of American Idol--and Matz's puttanesca has reached the finals. After a few years of rounds that added Asian, Caribbean and Latin American flavors to the menu, this round of revisions will reimagine familiar classics like spinach salad, corned-beef hash and spaghetti with red sauce; the puttanesca is a twist on marinara. The winners will debut on Cheesecake Factory menus later this month...
...measure of success that really matter for any of the new dishes that will soon appear on the menu. The lasagna got the ax, but the Bolognese sauce with white truffle oil will get a shot as a pasta entrée, along with a spinach, poached-chicken and bacon salad, a crab hash made with potatoes and onions and the pasta with four roasted tomato sauces--including puttanesca without anchovies. If they don't sell, they're gone, no matter how much Overton or any critic loves or loathes them...
...Most of it is portion control," she answered. "Yes, I eat my own food. I do. But I don't eat a lot of it. And as you see in watching Everyday Italian, I take those little salad plates--you know, appetizer-sized plates--and that's the amount of food I eat ... And I eat multiple meals throughout the day. And I do work out--a novelty, I know. And it's also--my mother's tiny--it's also partly genetics...
...spit it out after a take or force herself to vomit, as several fans have asked. But she's not often having stuffed shells and mopped-up sauce. The day we spent together, De Laurentiis had a little bit of oatmeal with maple syrup for breakfast and a Caesar salad with chicken for lunch, followed by several small sweets from a cake shop. At dinner, she ordered three more salads--although, to be fair, one was served with a tuna fillet and another was shared with the table. And she did scoop up every bite of her dessert, an espresso...
...snob. You'll experience important culinary revelations: Those Entenmann's Softee Frosted Donuts in the vending machine? They're horrible. Gummy on the outside, dry on the inside. It's prison food. Wait instead for a nice plate of chicken Tetrazzini when you get home. That is, a nice salad plate's worth...