Word: veale
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...girls wear lingerie on television and hanker for the loving touch of a septuagenarian. Even female news anchors reading their lines over video of gore in Afghanistan wear halter tops. The reputedly randy Prime Minister has promoted some of the more lovely young things - dubbed by Italians vitello, or veal - from his broadcasting empire into his Cabinet. He has deflected the political fallout from the nearly pornographic video of orgiastic parties at his villas. First-person accounts from prostitutes hired to entertain him, which would have a U.S. President in an impeachment scandal, are mere delicious newspaper morsels in Italy...
...fantastic breakfast at Happily Ever After, tel: (90-212) 263 4138, where all the breads are homemade. I'd meet one of my artists for lunch at Vogue, tel: (90- 212) 227 4404, in Besiktas for the great view and fine food. I'd order something authentically Turkish, like veal kulbasti on a bed of smoked aubergine...
...Jimmy Carter went for flavor, not volume, on his 53rd birthday in 1977: his single cake was pistachio, reportedly his favorite. Ronald Reagan's 1981 surprise party, by contrast, featured veal, lobster, dancing - and a dozen cakes. Two years later, at the end of a televised press conference, his wife Nancy Reagan produced a small, one-candle cake for the President and another for reporters. "You understand we won't sell out for a piece of cake," quipped Sam Donaldson, then at ABC. "Oh, you've sold out for less than that," replied the President. (See TIME's politics blog...
...tiny fish restaurant. The aperitivo hour, which rolls on until 10 p.m., sees hip Neapolitans wash down line-caught, sushi-style snacks with ice-cold white wine. Then step back in time at the majolica-tiled Osteria della Matonella, tel: (39-081) 416 541, where pasta alla Genoves (with veal and onions) and rum baba testify to 35 years of mama-licious Neapolitan cooking. (See 10 things to do in Rome...
...everyone is following that advice. Despite recent gains, the average Aussie today eats less than a quarter of a kilo of kangaroo a year, compared with more than 37 kg of beef and veal. In 2007, the entire kangaroo industry, which includes pet-food and hide sales, was valued at about $30 million, compared to over $1.4 billion for Australia's sheep business. "I'm sure those producing kangaroo got a bounce out of [Garnaut's report], if you'll pardon the pun," says Brett Heffernan, a spokesman for the National Farmers' Federation. "But it's not likely to take...