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...succeed with the gnocchi in his recent book Holiday Food). Rather, Batali proselytizes about using the freshest ingredients--only mozzarella that comes in whole pound chunks swimming in their own water; only bread crumbs made from today's bread ("day old tastes like day old"); only home-made testa...
...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...
...testa is far better than it sounds--like a fatty but delicately flavored sausage, topped with a little vinegar salad for bite. But is that really what passes for fine food in New York City? No, and that's Batali's point: he is serving dishes most fancy restaurants in the U.S. wouldn't dare to put before high-paying customers...
...chestnut about why people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. The publisher is rushing out 500,000 copies of an "instant" paperback book, Glass Houses: Shocking Profiles of Congressional Sex Scandals and Other Unofficial Misconduct by attorney Stanley Hilton and psychologist Anne-Renee Testa, due in stores by Election Day. The book's mission: to expose the hidden lives of some of those who will be judging President CLINTON. The book will review the ethical problems of more than 50 Senators and Congressional Representatives...
Hofstra, however, was not down for the count--far from it, in fact. A 10-5 Harvard lead in the third stanza quickly became a 10-8 pincushion as Hofstra sophomore attackman Jarred Testa took matters into his own hands, adding two successive goals to a three-goal Hofstra tantrum...