Word: siciliana
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tour and the North End lasted all of 15 minutes. It faded when Topor herself intoned “there’s no such thing as ‘Italian cuisine’” and completely disappeared with the first bite of the cassata siciliana. This sponge cake soaked in Strega and dotted with chocolate chips was perfectly moist and not-too-sweet. I was sold: the North End, authentic or not, was delicious. The tour continued through a wine store and a green grocer before returning to the shops I visited with Giovanna Tognetti the week...
...clean shirts and underwear in the morning. Peppino is gripped by the delusion that his wife is having an affair with a family friend, Luigi (Ron Holgate), but he is only a platonic admirer. The real culprit? Are you ready? A plate of macaroni alla siciliana. Three plates, to be exact. Peppino gobbled them down at his daughter-in-law's house and had the effrontery to praise her cooking effusively, to Rosa's mortification. After some mutual Neapolitan hysterics, the pair heals this terrible rift...
...other cases of violence. In three months he had been charged with influencing politics in New York, Kansas City, Los Angeles and New Orleans. Crime commissions speculated feverishly that he owned gambling houses and nightclubs from Florida to California, controlled race wires across the nation, ran the baleful Unione Siciliana (i.e., the U.S. Mafia) and financed everything from narcotics smuggling to jewel theft...
...debt-burdened farmer. He was brought to New York when he was four; his father opened a hole-in-the-wall grocery on East 108th Street, and he was exposed early.to the neighborhood heroes: the torpedoes who worked for Giro Terranova, red-handed boss of the Unione Siciliana in Harlem and The Bronx...
...Philadelphia Orchestra's tour (TIME, April 27), Stokowski was swelling his purse by appearing with his men on the Kraft's Cheese hour, which is sent out from Hollywood with Crooner Bing Crosby as master of ceremonies. Stokowski's first offering was Bach's Siciliana, which prompted Crosby to comment: ''When it's like that I like Bach pretty good...