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same time. If I find the meatballs and sauce will be left at the end, I will order a little more spaghetti and the other way around holds true too. They have to end together, like the morning cereal. Same concept. Different meal. By the way, a horrific thing happened to me the other day with spaghetti and meatballs. The spaghetti was served separately, but, after I put on my first dollop of meatballs and sauce on the top of one side, pure water began to leak out the bottom of the spaghetti to pool up on the plate. It had not been properly drained. Now it was trying to dilute the sauce. I fought with it with my spoon, baling and baling the water into an empty glass on the side, but it was no use. I had to send it all back. In fact, I was so upset I ordered some-
thing else entirely in its place. NUTS I will not eat nuts hidden in ice cream. Nuts have no business surprising me by making themselves known as I bite into what I believe is smooth, magnificent waves of nut-free ice cream. Stumbling upon them in this way is just too much to bear. An unpleasant surprise. I won’t even eat nuts if they are sprinkled on the top of ice cream, or even if on top, initially, on the hot fudge. They have to be quickly brushed off before they get a chance to hide in the goo. Get away. Get away. NUTS 2 I will eat almonds if they are slivered and on top of, say, cereal. Sometimes you find slivered
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almonds in cold cereal. They are meant to be there. They are approved for cereal by dieticians and health professionals. I will not eat whole almonds, though. They break funny and at odd moments. I also will not eat macadamia nuts because they are too easy to break. I will eat walnuts but only if they are chopped fine and then baked into something. I will also eat cashews and peanuts, provided they are salted. Reminds me of the circus. FRUIT It would take pages and pages to describe my relationship with fruit over the years. But I have come to terms with most of it. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll even eat the skin now. Bananas I like too. But not the stringy thing that runs up them inside lengthwise. But it can be peeled away. HOT CINNAMON CHURROS This is a whole food group in my pyramid. Love â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em. MILK CHOCOLATE I do not understand why they make milk chocolate when dark chocolate tastes so much better and breaks into pieces with a cool snap. For me, milk chocolate is only to be eaten when there is no dark chocolate. Milk chocolate is, therefore, better than nothing. But not much. A ROOT BEER FLOAT When I am on my death bed, or about to be put to death in the electric chair, and at this time I am asked what I want for my last meal, I will, having been introduced to this by Gail Cooke, order up a root beer float. The brand of root beer does not matter. The scoop of ice cream is vanilla. * * * Please send any thoughts or responses or crazy food stories of your own to dan@danspapers.com.
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and restaurants and tours. And Elvis was everywhereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;when he had been just a fading icon before. â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Idolâ&#x20AC;? was already a success when Sillerman bought it. But he brought it to even greater heights. Only the rights to Muhammad Ali did not fare as well as he might have liked. It is hard to say why. Then came another disaster. In 2007, Sillerman purchased some land in Anguilla in the Caribbean, where he had a winter home, with the idea of building a vast resort there. He made a deal with the St. Regis Hotel and hired Greg Norman to design a golf course, but the thing went way over budget and never opened. The structure of it is mostly built today, but is closed and the golf course abandoned. Many coinvestors lost money in the project. And so did Sillerman. Sillerman has rued the day he entered the world of real estate and resort living. There is a paperweight on my desk at my home in East Hampton that bears the slogan DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T BE AFRAID TO FAIL, BE AFRAID OF NOT TRYING. Robert F. X. Sillerman is living proof of what that slogan means. Function (X) is now listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and I have little doubt the stock will go up. The reason will be Robert F.X. Sillerman.