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Dukakis had invited the team to dine at the capitol on April 26, perhaps following the lead of Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, who periodically tosses spaghetti fetes for the Harvard football team...
Lunch consisted of clearing a space in a nearby warehouse. setting a table for twenty-five, and preparing enough spaghetti to feed an army. We ate pasta and drank wine for three hours...
Industry analysts attribute the corn craze to Americans' heightened dietary sophistication. Like spuds and spaghetti, nutritionists point out, popcorn is low in calories before the butter goes on; two cups of popcorn have fewer than a medium-size apple. The American Dental Association recommends sugar-free popcorn for snacking. The Illinois division of the American Cancer Society praises popcorn as one of the "eleven things that don't cause cancer." (Among the others: a good laugh, exercise, fruit and vegetables.) Says James Fowler of American Pop Corn Co., Sioux City, Iowa: "If you had asked a lady...
Scratch an Italian, you find a pasta buff. Scratch an Italian expatriate, like Film Producer Dino De Laurentiis, 63 (Serpico, Ragtime), and you find an epicure with the complaint that no one makes pasta like Papa. The son of a spaghetti-factory owner, De Laurentiis last week opened his new $3.5 million, 12,000-sq.-ft. gourmet emporium in Manhattan, the DDL Foodshow. He has filled his showpiece with a 32-ft. counter for cold salads, 20 ft. of charcuterie and 139 chefs, bakers and pastrymakers. De Laurentiis is no stranger to the delights of kitchen duty. "When I cook...
...tycoon and two-term mayor of Naples whose flamboyant generosity brought color and chaos to his adoring city; of a heart attack; in Naples. Having thrice lost and rebuilt a shipping empire, Lauro became mayor in 1952 and ruled with the profligate munificence of a Godfather, distributing banknotes and spaghetti to voters, erecting magnificent fountains, even abolishing traffic lights...