Ann Arborites
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Wednesday, June 19, 1985- Page 3
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By KATIE WILCOX
Ann Arbor residents like to think of
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their city as a cultural center, a Most people in the ' .t'f", WASHINGTON (UPI) - The House
progressive place one step ahead of ..clamped an even tighter lid on the
other towns. And it is, at least for ice Midwest don't know .4Ghuge MX missile yesterday, voting to
cmmuhabout ahold deployment to just 40 of thel10-
cretam. Itln ice cream,muc gelaoo, ..the a dwarhead weapons and build no more
Ann Arbor market two years ago. and we're trying to in fiscl1.
While the rich, lush treat is stilla local The Senate has opted for a
novelty, it hasn't reached many other educate them. deployment cap of 50 missiles, with 12
parts of the country. more to be built in the coming fiscal
"This town was ready for it, - Carol Frank, year. Differences between the House
something a little more Manager of Cafe Fiore and Senate positions will be worked
sophisticated," said Bill Costello, out in a conference committee once
owner of Caffe Fiore, which has been the House finishes with its $292 billion
on State Street for over a year. at higher temperatures. This results defense authorization package.
Gelato Classico, in Briarwood Mall, ina more intense flavor. THE HOUSE closed the issue for
has been in Ann Arbor a year longer. But how do you lure customers )k the day after just 90 minutes of debate
The San Francisco-based firm has away from more familiar favorites? on three different MX proposals, an
spread its franchises, along with its Do Americans expect it to be like their amazingl short debate in view of the
delicious idea, over 12 states. ice cream? Dickerson said the fran- ,controver y the missile has stirred in
Jim Dickerson, manager of the chise uses taste tests to make sure the past.
local Gelato Classico, linked Italian those who walk by or wander in are The first proposal, to entirely scrap
ice cream's popularity to foreign given a sample spoonful. the program, failed 230-185, and the
travel. "Many people who travel Carol Frank, manager at Caffe House then passed the 40-missile cap
abroad like to get it here," he said. Fiore, agrees that gelato is still a on a vote of 233-184 and endorsed it
novelty. "Most people in the Midwest again on a voice vote.
Dickerson said travelers like to don't know much about gelato, and The Senate position of 50 missiles
compare gelato to what they get in we're trying to educate them," she deployed in Minuteman 3 silos with 12
Italy and that many people tell him said built in the coming fiscal year failed
Gelato Classico is the best they've Caffe Fiore specializes in authentic '234-182
tried in this country. Italian flavors, fancy liquor flavors, E
But Costello said that the Gelato and sorbetto, which unlike sherbet author of the successful plan, told the
Classico franchise, unlike his own contains no milk or cream. House his proposal was an "honest
gelato, is not made fresh and contains The big seller at Gelato Classico is compromise to limit deployment ...
a lot of butterfat, making it a very Copa Mista, a tantalizing blend of Now is the time to cap MX
Americanized version. dark chocolate, vanilla bean, Diy Photo by BLO deployment.
pistachio, and almond. Rep. Bill Dickinson of Alabama, the
The distinction between the Italian If the reaction of the new converts Added touch ranking Republican on the House Ar-
product and its American counterpart or the enthusiasm of the promoters is med Services Committee, held out for
is that gelato contains less air, is any indication, gelato has gained a Passersby can catch a glimpse of a sign of the times at a construction site 50 missiles and argued it was
much lower in butterfat, and is served large and devoted following. on North University yesterday. necessary "to stop (at 50) to give the
Soviets an opportunity to display their
bona fides in negotiations."
" Mavroules and Rep. Dave McCur-
Gekitto: A taste o Italian novelty ice cre dystuo l o
l" e t i e cr a m cap of 40, said the key element oftthe
effort is a statutory limit on deploy-
ROME (UPI) - Ask for a single this," he said, rapping his knuckles on Bigger shops offer a wider selec- separating - by hand - 2,700-3,000 ment that would force the Pentagon to
scoop of chocolate ice cream at a local the glass-topped desk tucked into a tion, sometimes as many as 40 eggs. ask it be lifted to set out more
"gelateria" and no matter how good sliver of an office in Giolitti's main flavors, including champagne (made Giolitti said neither he nor his missiles. They said they will insist on
your Italian accent, you'll be branded store, just down the cobblestone street with bottles of Italian "Spumante"), father ever found a machine as good that language in conference.
a foreigner. from Italy's lower house of kiwi, fig, banana, bilberry, ricotta at separating eggs as Bruno, who has
Italian ice cream is too lush, too Parliament. (with a creamy, cottage cheese taste) spend most of his adult life slipping "PEOPLE have had it up to their
soft, too velvety rich to form a neat lit- "PLUS they can't keep it natural or baba au rhum. yolks into one vast caldron and whites throats with the MX," said Mavroules.
tle golf ball atop a cone. Instead, it is when they have such big distribution Colors are vibrant - kiwi ice cream into another. The White House had no immed-
slathered and mounded into place areas," said Giolitti, who is the fourth is as green as the kiwi flesh, and Once the yolks are separated they iate comment on the vote.
with a plump metal paddle. generation in the family business. bilberry as purply-pink as the tiny are combined with the rest of the The round of MX votes followed a
AND NOBODY orders a single "Ours is completely natural and so it dark-skinner fruit. ingredients'to be pasteurized, a proc-
flavor - the unwritten rule requires doesn't keep more than a couple of WHEN MADE well, "gelato ar- ess that is both tricky and important. move to cut n0 billion out of the
three, with or without a dollop of days." tiginale" (artisan's ice cream) is built IF THE liquid ice cream is not defense package and bring the total
"panna," fresh whipped cream, to Whether it is the scarcity of home on natural, fresh ingredients - heated to the proper temperature, down to $292 biriongt te velof 3t
cap it off. deep freezers or just the Italian cream, milk, fruit, nuts, sugar, and just below the boiling point, then packae.oiewitthedefs
"Gelato" (pronounced jellah'-toe custom of punctuating a lesisurely egg yolks. quickly chilled to the freezing point, tikn of the House budgetresolution.
Italian-style ranges from frozen egg "passeggiata" (stroll) with a stop for Pulling out a handful of much- one risks dishing out salmonella with tics s the netesofthat
custards to fruity, eggless creams, a snack, Romans rarely lug cartons of thumbed address books from his desk thefinished product. Critics said the net effect of that
from fruit-filled, milkless sherbets to ice cream home for an in-house treat. drawer, Giolitti read aloud his Giolitti's back room looks as much defense authorization bill below this
big crunchy flakes of flavored ice. They tend to eat it on the move, father's recipe for hazelnut ice likea laundry asa kitchen, with a row year's level once a raft of budget-
Except for being cold, it has little in strolling to fancy ice cream parlors cream, which starts with a kilo - 2.2 of stainless steel, washing machine- cutting amendments are approved.
common with its U.S. counterparts. like Giolitti's or to little neighborhood pounds - of egg yolks. sized pasteurizers lined up against a The $302 billion figure represented no
NO cellulose gum. No calcium bars of cafes that set up freezers in In the tile kitchen where the ice green tile wall. Large industrial real growth once inflation is figured
sulfate. No polysorbate 80. No the warmer months. creams are made, Giolitti introduced thermometers sit like oversized in, while the $292 billion level
carrageenan. No hydrogenated STANDARD flavors are "crema," an elderly man named Bruno, who is daisies atop each machine to make represented no adjustment for in-
vegetable oil, similar to American vanilla, standing over a nearly 3-foot-high temperature checks easy. flation since last year.
"American ice cream is made with chocolate, coffee, strawberry, soupplotoffreshbananas. The front rooms are virtually Other issues expected to arise
big industrial machines," said the 30-year- hazelnut, lemon, and orange. Also Dressed in white shirt, white pants, always mobbed until the 2 a.m. were efforts to strip from the bill $124
old owner of Rome's best-known ice popular is "baci" (kisses), based on white apron, and rubber boots, Bruno closing time, although the crowds million for renewed chemical weapon
cream shop. "There's not enough air. the chocolate and hazelnut confection was dumping the last of the peeled rarely get as unmanageable as those production as well as spending on
inside them. that is the Italian version of the Her- bananas into the pot after having that flocked there just after the end of President Reagan's "Sar Wars" anti-
"So they're hard, too hard, like shey chocolate "kiss." completed his daily routine of World War II. missile research program.