the lovely cook of Everyday Italian, Giada DiLaurentiis, is indeed, the granddaughter of Dino DiLaurentiis and therefore of Silvana Mangano, known as the sexy star of Bitter Rice in 1949 (when she was 19)
i was tickled to find out by googling / a commenter on a gotham food blog provided the info with expressions of love and admiration / "I love her big head" he wrote
i love her big smile and her liberal use of butter (burro in Italian)
today Giada made Florentine food / for the first time i wanted to make a cake known as Zucotto just like hers
slices of pound cake drenched in brandy (nearly all Italian desserts are soaked in booze) line a deep bowl, then filled with a chocolate/cream that coats the cake slices and then filled some more with whipped cream loaded with toasted almonds / put more brandied cake slices on top / cover with plastic
chill for hours or over night / then turn out onto a platter / sprinkle with cocoa and dig in / it is a dome of a cake / una duomo dolce or something like that
little cups of espresso will help it all go down
espresso with a twist of lemon is considered a digestivo in Italy
just a tiny little cup, that's all
which makes me wonder how Starbucks plunked down at Piazza di Spagna is doing with their giant Americani doses of coffee
can you smoke a Gauloise, for example, in Starbucks in Rome ?
hmmm
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