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Testa? That's headcheese, which Batali defines this way: "You take everything north of the shoulder on a pig--the eyebrows, a big hunk of nostril, all that good stuff--and put it in a pot." Boil and serve as an appetizer--for $10, at Batali's flagship restaurant, Babbo...
...does this for three reasons. One, most Babbo customers are rich Manhattanites spoiled by big hunks of filet mignon and Alaskan halibut. "Testa brings a depth you don't get by using the biggest, best cut of meat," Batali says. Two, as he says in his new show, Mario Eats Italy--shot on location in the motherland--Batali believes that the true basis of a lot of Italian cooking is poverty. Those who can't afford much don't waste something as precious as pig lips. Three, Batali thinks it's funny to serve headcheese for 10 bucks...
Married. Joni James (real name: Joan Carmella Babbo), 26, tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) jukebox thrush (Your Cheatin' Heart); and Anthony Acquaviva, 30, her manager; in Manhattan...
Four years ago, Joan Carmella Babbo graduated from Chicago's Bowen High School. Then she went to college for four years-but not to the academic kind. College for her was a succession of spotlighted floors where she learned to belt out popular songs...
...beer halls she learned how to use her voice, but she kept her unsophisticated manner. "Everybody in their life goes through different romantic phases," she decided. "All you have t do is remember real living, and put it into the song." By last winter, 22-year-old Joanie Babbo-known as Joni James-had graduated to a place among the top recording songbirds in the U.S. Three of her hits nestled simultaneously on bestseller lists: Why Don't You Believe Me?, Have You Heard? and Your Cheatin' Heart...