Olive Garden Repents!

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Jul 14 13:42:16 UTC 2011


On Jul 14, 2011, at 7:28 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> For faking words Italiano in bid to be "culinary forward":
>
> http://www.ky3.com/news/os-olive-garden-whats-next-20110711,0,1748727.story?track=rss
>
> JL
>
Well, it certainly worked for "pepperoni", which was a similar American invention "rooted in the Italian inspiration... chefs draw from when developing these dishes".

LH

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