Word: sicilianism
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POPE JOHN PAUL II, renowned world traveler, took a stroll in his own Italian backyard this weekend. The occasion: a papal mission to the bullet-riddled Sicilian city of Palermo. His visit came in the aftermath of one of the most outrageous acts of cold-blooded civic slaughter in recent memory. In a speech at the Piazza Palitearna, the Pope cautiously sympathized with Palermo's anguished citizens. "Facts of barbarous violence, which for too long a time have bloodied the strengths of this splendid city, offend human dignity...
...second course, Grand Tradition runs naturally to veal. Most notable are a classic Sicilian stuffed breast and a roast, vitello tartufato, with truffle sauce, and damn the expense. Holiday favorites include Christmas turkey, which the Italians devoured long before the Pilgrims, and is served here with hot fruits; and milk-fed baby lamb, traditionally tendered at Easter, accompanied by egg and lemon sauce. A savory pork roast in pizza dough was invented by Bettoja's husband Angelo, who also prescribed the wines throughout. There are surprisingly few game dishes, but Angelo did contribute a rustic pheasant pate. Desserts include...
American cooks, with even less time for complex dishes than Sicilian nuns, are fast learning the value of whole menus that can be cooked in advance. Ready When You Are (Crown; $15.95), by Elizabeth Schneider Colchie, consists entirely of what its author felicitously calls fetes accomplies. Her book presents dishes that need "no last-minute fussing. Turning on the oven and setting a tinier, heating a soup, tossing a salad are tolerable tasks." Laboring over a hot stove in party finery is out. New Yorker Colchie arranges her 32 menus by seasons but appends a number of ad hoc niceties...
...criminal violence that has gripped Italy in recent years. The Archbishop of Palermo was presiding over a highly emotional memorial service for Carabinieri General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the appointed prefect of Palermo, who had arrived in May to spearhead the government's efforts to clean up the Sicilian Mafia. The day before, Dalla Chiesa, 62, and his bride of less than two months, Emanuela Setti Carraro, 32, were slain in downtown Palermo during an ambush by presumed Mafia hitmen...
...ever thus. Though a 3rd century A.D. Sicilian mosaic reveals an astonishing modern woman ? bikini-clad and sporting a pair of barbells ? women rarely exercised to keep themselves in shape or style. Too often they simply mutilated their bodies. For a thousand years Chinese women bound their feet so tightly that a natural "high heel" was formed, and toes were twisted irreversibly under the arch; African women used discs to form platypus lips; in Burma, tribeswomen encircled their necks with so many heavy metal rings that the vertebrae would separate. In the early 19th century, English fashion...