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- <title>
- Oct 18, 1993: Crook as Cook
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Oct. 18, 1993 What in The World Are We Doing?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 113
- Crook as Cook
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- <body>
- <p>By GINIA BELLAFANTE
- </p>
- <p> The late 20th century has seen the cookbook evolve from a simple
- guide to cookery into a life-style primer that presents meals
- as thematic events: "The Virginia Hunt Breakfast," "The Kite-Flying
- Picnic," "The Academy Award Buffet." Now comes a book from Joseph
- ("Joe Dogs") Iannuzzi, a former member of the Gambino crime
- family, that celebrates a whole new set of life's special moments--like winning $128,000 in a fixed race. In The Mafia Cookbook
- (Simon & Schuster), Iannuzzi, who eventually became an informer
- for the FBI, provides instructions for preparing all his favorite
- meals, including pasta fagioli and osso buco (a dinner he fixed
- for a newly made man), orecchietti with prosciutto (a dinner
- he fixed after a big hit) and manicotti with mint (a dinner
- he fixed for his friend Skinny Bobby and a nice hooker named
- Jenny). "It's a real cute book, isn't it?" says Joe Dogs. "It's
- sort of adorable." So enthusiastic is Joe about la cuisine wiseguy
- that he was willing to forfeit his enrollment in the federal
- Witness Protection Program to appear on Late Show with David
- Letterman, but Letterman people backed out. Joe was planning
- to make Dave a veal Marsala.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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