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...unmasked as a culinary dud, I’d return to proclaim myself “so over cooking,” and no one would have to know.So after a year of Italian A, a few phone calls, and some generous traveling fellowships, I was off to Hotel Vannucci in Umbria. Other than my arrival date and the hotel’s address, I knew next to nothing about the apprenticeship. I could very easily have agreed to four weeks washing cutting boards in exchange for a room in the dusty corner of a cellar. I prepared myself...
Last year the shirt saga came full circle. Polo/Ralph Lauren discovered that a Buenos Aires haberdasher, Alberto Vannucci, was selling shirts with a polo-player logo. The firm fired off a letter to Vannucci accusing him of copying its trademark. The clothier replied that his logo, which depicts a polo player from a different angle than Lauren's does, was designed in 1920 by none other than Lewis Lacey. Polo/Ralph Lauren nonetheless filed suit in Buenos Aires, charging Vannucci with trademark similarity. The case is still in court...
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