Dinner with Joseph Ratzinger

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rcesq		#221	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 1391 03/15/08 14:48:47 Moderator	This year the Church calendar may have moved the celebration of St. Joseph's Day to March 15, but we all know that it's really March 19! So this year I'm going to celebrate twice. (The Italian parish in the diocese remains undaunted by Holy Week and has its St. Joseph Table with free spaghetti dinner next Tuesday and Wednesday.) Alas, I do not have the knack of baking with yeast so I won't try making the goodies Benodette has displayed above.
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Benodette	An Italian cook for the Pope in New York	#222	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 5063 03/22/08 08:15:59	The NY Times reports that Lidia Bastianich of Felidia on E 58th St will be cooking for the Pope. Felidia is a wonderful Italian restaurant with great food. The Pope will have a treat. Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times NY Times - When Pope Benedict XVI makes his first trip as Pope to New York next month, the cook taking charge of his nightly dinners will be the grande dame of this city's Italian chefs, Lidia Bastianich. Ms. Bastianich told me during a telephone conversation this week that she'd been asked two months ago if she'd be willing to put together two special meals for the Pope. She said yes, and then, at the request of Roman Catholic officials helping to organize his visit, kept her lips sealed until now. She said it wasn't easy. "I'm so elated," she said of the honor she's been given. "I mean - yeah, yeah - it's just tremendous." Ms. Bastianich, 62, an owner of the restaurants Felidia and Del Posto, said she considers herself a devout Catholic, and she's interacted with Vatican officials based in New York. She's been active as well in the local Italian community. These associations, she said, seemed to be among the reasons organizers of the Pope's visit chose her. She said that she would write the menu and help prepare the food for a dinner for 52 on April 18 and a dinner for 24 on April 19. Both will be private. Neither will be in a restaurant...Ms. Bastianich said she'd been asked not to talk much about the menus she's putting together yet, and that her instructions from the Pope's representatives haven't been too detailed. "We discussed some of the things, what he likes and dislikes, what he can and cannot eat," she said. "What was stressed really was simplicity, seasonality, a light, balanced meal." The Pope turns 81 next month. She said her son, Joe Bastianich, a partner with Mario Batali in several hugely popular Manhattan restaurants including Babbo, would probably act as the sommelier for the meals. Lidia and Il Papa Here is Lidia's website
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Benodette	Pope’s favourite pasticceria revealed.	#223	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 5076 03/25/08 10:34:46	Wanted in Rome reports on Petrus story; A religious website has got the scoop on Pope Benedict XVI's favourite cake shop in Rome. According to Petrus (www.papanews.it), the pope is a patron of the Limentani pasticceria, near the Synagogue in the Jewish Ghetto, which also counts politicians Silvio Belusconi, Massimo D'Alema and Giuliano Ferrara among its customers. Owner Vilma Limentani revealed that the pope is particularly fond of her almond and cinnamon biscuits as well as 'Jewish pizza' (pizza ebraica), a hard cake made with candied fruits, raisins, almonds and pine nuts. Limentani said her baked goods ended up on the pope's table by chance when one of his doctors brought him a bag of almond and cinnamon biscuits from the bakery on a routine visit to the Vatican. Benedict sent a message complimenting Limentani on the biscuits, and since then the doctor always picks up a sweet treat for the pope every time he visits. She added that since the kosher bakery does not use saturated animal fats, Benedict is free to indulge his sweet tooth without fearing for his cholesterol. Pasticceria Limentani, Via del Portico d'Ottavia 1, tel. 066878637. © Benodette In the interest of research I tried some of the pizza. It is pretty solid slab consisting of a almond paste mixed with nuts, raisins and candied fruit pastry and baked until it is deep brown outside. It is very sweet and very heavy. © Benodette The biscotti, or cookies, are nicer with lots of nuts and a strong flavour of cinnamon, but they are also extremey sweet. If the Pope eats many of these he needs his walks and his workouts on the bicycle. © Benodette Last Edited By: Benodette 03/27/08 11:31:55. Edited 1 time.
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Unicorn	Pope’s favourite pasticceria revealed.	#224	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 1244 03/27/08 21:20:11	In the interest of research I tried some of the pizza. It is pretty solid slab consisting of an almond paste mixed with nuts, raisins and candied fruit pastry and baked until it is deep brown outside. It is very sweet and very heavy. The biscotti, or cookies, are nicer with lots of nuts and a strong flavour of cinnamon, but they are also extremely sweet. If the Pope eats many of these he needs his walks and his workouts on the bicycle. Il Papa evidently has quite the sweet tooth. If he does favor these goodies, I think he'll need more than just those walks and workouts! He's not a young man anymore and I would hate to think of him having problems with his blood sugar. Oh well … who am I to talk? I'm not supposed to drink too much Coca-Cola or eat too many chocolates because of hyperacidity and gallstones, but I can never resist either of those two! Anyone who's ever had to swelter in the heat of a tropical summer can tell you that a tall, ice-cold glass of Coca-Cola is like manna from heaven when the thermometer hits 34 C! Buon appetito, carissimo Papa! Proud to be Papist! "Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved ..." - Benedict XVI "He knocks at the door, he is close to us and thus true joy is close, which is stronger than all the sorrows in the world, and in our life." - Benedict XVI
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Benodette	Pope Benedict 'partial to buffalo mozzarella cheese'	#225	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 5089 03/28/08 04:57:00	After the favourite cookies, the favourite cheese AKI - Pope Benedict XVI is a big fan of buffalo mozzarella cheese, and eats it often reported Italian daily Il Messaggero on Friday. Pope Benedict XVI reportedly likes simple dishes and often receives buffalo mozzarella cheese as a gift from bishops from the Campania region in southern Italy where the best buffalo mozzarella is produced. The cheese is given to Benedict's policemen, who later 'discreetly' take the cheese to his apartment, Il Messaggero reported. Recently there have been fears the highly popular mozzarella cheese may have been contaminated by dioxins and other chemicals from illegally dumped toxic waste. Japan and South Korea have in recent days halted imports of buffalo mozzarella, and there are fears other countries could suspend imports. In the supermarket located inside Vatican City, the dairy section is full of mozzarella cheese products from the southern region of Campania. Pope Benedict 'partial to buffalo mozzarella cheese'
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JFonseka		#226	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 11 03/30/08 04:44:49	Whether or not he ever felt that becoming a priest was the wrong thing to do, directly related to that, whether he contemplated getting married instead. Whether there was a girl/s he liked during his younger days, then again he entered the seminary at a young age, so maybe not.
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JFonseka		#227	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 12 03/30/08 04:52:43	Strictly speaking though, I would rather discuss theology and philosophy with him. Perhaps once in a while talk about some baroque music which I love.
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galantarie		#228	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 4343 03/30/08 05:26:17 Member	Good to have you aboard Jay!...This comes from a theorbo-player (whose "supreme" comes in the late 17th Century)! ...and for those "not-so-into" the baroque, you will be converted if you listen to MARTINI'S "Plaiser d'Amour" as was sung by Tino Rossi ! "I have a mustard- seed; and I am not afraid to use it." [Ratzinger:"Salt of the Earth"] May Our Papa's radiant-light continuously shine forth to illuminate Christ for the world!
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JFonseka		#229	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 14 03/31/08 02:47:01	galantarie wrote: Good to have you aboard Jay!...This comes from a theorbo-player (whose "supreme" comes in the late 17th Century)! ...and for those "not-so-into" the baroque, you will be converted if you listen to MARTINI'S "Plaiser d'Amour" as was sung by Tino Rossi ! Thanks =), ah I know that song, popular one it is, however I really only know the simplified version.
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Benodette	More on the Jewish pastries	#230	[url]	[-]
Member Posts: 5101 03/31/08 15:48:20	© Benodette The Jewish World - There are few people in Rome that do not know the famous Boccione bakery in Rome's ancient ghetto, established in 1555. Alongside a prominent local synagogue and Jewish schools stands the bakery, renowned for making traditional treats by hand for hundreds of years. "One of the pope's doctors stopped by the bakery en route to administering a routine checkup of the pontiff and introduced the pastries to Benedict," recalled bakery owner Wilma Limentani. "I guess he enjoyed the biscotti and 'Jewish pizza' (an almond-and-raisin confection)," noted Limenati who was recently surprised with a thank-you letter from the Vatican. "We would never, ever use lard. All of our pastries are strictly kosher ," she said as a long line of customers snakes its way into her store, hoping that the supply of "Jewish pizza" does not run dry "We would never, ever use lard. All of our pastries are strictly kosher ," she said as a long line of customers snakes its way into her store, hoping that the supply of "Jewish pizza" does not run dry. Pope loves kosher sweets
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