{"id":304,"date":"2009-08-29T22:51:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T21:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2009-08-31T18:04:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T17:04:15","slug":"reconcilationze-in-cucina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"Reconcilationze in&nbsp;Cucina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 27<sup>th<\/sup> August 2009<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0You remember how Angus Willis, the internationally-known food writer, slammed down his fish slice when I put salt in the beans, queening, \u2018They\u2019ll be hard! They\u2019ll be hard!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0As it happens, they weren\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0But I\u2019ve haven\u2019t told you about the tiramisu affair. \u00a0On the first night, Donatella, the richly burnished villa housekeeper, made the welcome dinner.\u00a0 The pudding \u2013 tiramisu, without coffee, a sweet, perfumed custard decorated with little choc buttons. Rather charming and I thought <em>typico<\/em>. That horrid gluey confectioners\u2019 custard paste such a feature when in foreign. But Angus Willis furioso. Non mangiere. Next morning into the kitch, instructs Donatella to buy ingredients for true tiramisu, particularly a rare coffee liqueur. We imagine her buzzing all over Italy in the Fiat Uno in search.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Anyway, next day, she appears with liqueur. No sign as yet of the bomba in cucina we all think a certainty. In fact from the kitch all day (while Angus Willis reigns no-one likes to go in, especially after the salt-in-beans near-death experience), rumours drift that Donatella is actually <em>helping<\/em> with the erection of the True Tiramisu.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0In the evening we have the Tiramisu, as I\u2019ve mentioned already. It is marv. You will find Angus Willis\u2019s recipe in the comments on \u2018Strange and Wonderful Harmony in Tuscany\u2019(22nd August 2009). Then next morning people wafting past the nether regions report that Donatella is actually <em>trying <\/em>the Tira, and taking down the recipe.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Finally Angus Willis himself appears. He makes a stunning announcement. He intends to cook one of Donatella\u2019s recipes. And he does. And photographs it for Australian <em>Vogue<\/em>. It is Penne con ragu alla salvia. Perhaps you\u2019d like the recipe for that as well?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0On the other hand, you can have enough recipes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0But Donatella is non credo, bowled over.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0So poor little rich gays are not completely horrid. As it happens, in addition, Angus Willis demonstrates the true gay style in the matter of staff. The approach is firm, even demanding, but equally there is a duty to entertain and break down barriers. Staff should feel that they have never been so terrified nor known such larks and nonsense all their born days. Simon Limpney, when I knew him, before the great falling-out, kept up a whirlwind of innuendo and outrage in the kitchen regions at Massivebury. Come to think of it, I don\u2019t think his ladies were frightened of him, not as I was later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 27th August 2009 \u00a0You remember how Angus Willis, the internationally-known food writer, slammed down his fish slice when I put salt in the beans, queening, \u2018They\u2019ll be hard! They\u2019ll be hard!\u2019 \u00a0As it happens, they weren\u2019t. \u00a0But I\u2019ve haven\u2019t told you about the tiramisu affair. \u00a0On the first night, Donatella, the richly burnished villa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrain-edge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}