TODAY'S recommended economics writing: The big cannoli (Eurointelligence) Fed eyes European banks (Wall Street Journal) The new firm employment puzzle (macroblog) It's getting ugly (David Beckworth) The UK labour market isn't working (FT alphaville).
If that doesn't appeal, go for ricotta-filled cannoli (€2).
But the deep-fried golden baby school prawns (£7.50) crunch in the mouth like popcorn; a soupy bowl of surf clams, vongole clams, periwinkles and cured pig cheek (£10.50) is like a warm sea-water bath; and snapping-fresh cannoli pastries (£6.50), voluptuously stuffed with three sweet creams, make a spectacular finish.
It contains "notes of bright Italian lemon and basil balanced with creamy textures reminiscent of cannoli and tiramisus topped off with sparkling prosecco and limoncello".
That's only on the saint's day, Sept. 19, but every day of the festival there are carnival rides, arcade games, and, of course, cannoli.
As I was walking to the car, cannoli in hand, to go back to the hospital, Teri called.
One picosecond: The length of time it takes you to regret having three cannoli.
Annoying neighbors and mothers-from-hell are introduced, along with other sitcom staples: the pre-pubescent Liza wears a micro miniskirt and Will reacts with a sex joke; Lori's cell phone is knocked into a fish tank; and a "runner" about how the neighbors' cannoli "taste like ass" is called back, in a possible excess of zeal, six times.
Dessert seemed almost anticlimactic, and aspersions were cast, in particular against the cannoli.
It's easy to feel nostalgic for red sauce and cannoli, and for a romanticized neighborhood whose heyday has so definitively passed.
While cannoli and slices of cheesecake were brought out, the Reverend Marine Jourdan, a new SPI associate member, was still working the room.
