Word: viggiano
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...busy improving their skills at a variety of arcane techniques, such as hand-dipping candy, mastering the vagaries of white chocolate and constructing elaborate chocolate figures, including rabbits, pyramids and even shoes, for buffet- table centerpieces. All have been drawn to Elmsford by the same thing. Says Liz Viggiano, 32, who dropped out of a graduate physiology program at the University of Florida to become a pastry chef: "I came here because of Albert's reputation...
...Americans? May the saints preserves us, the Americans again. I wonder what you'll do to me this time," said the Italian farmer with just the trace of a smile on his lips. The busload of pleasantly jabbering tourists had stopped in Viggiano to avoid traversing the southern countryside during the very hottest part of the day. Most of the safari had headed straight for the nearest cafe and the combination of watered red wine and water which the proprietors dearly loved to sell tourists for only 25 times its cost. A few of the more enterprising members...
...think," the farmer once again eyed his audience intently, "that you could get the American government to come back to Viggiano and restore the mountains on the land of my neighbor? For then, surely, my sons would realize that it is their fate to work the land, and not to can tomatoes. Surely your rich American nation would do this. I have sent letters to your government, but received no replies. If you would use your influence...
...tiers: the parents slept in the one big bed; the children slept over it, in cradles suspended on pulleys; the pigs and chickens slept underneath it. Always, "two inseparable guardian angels" looked down from the bedroom wall: "on one side was the black, scowling face ... of the Madonna of Viggiano; on the other . . . the sparkling eyes, behind gleaming glasses, and the hearty grin of President Roosevelt. ... Sometimes a third image formed, along with these two, a trinity: a dollar bill . . . was tacked up [between the Madonna and the President] like...
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