THE TERRONI INDEX
4 EAT YOUR HEART OUT compiled by Jessica Allen & Tara Downs
Number of years Parma has been making Parmigiano Reggiano cheese : 800 Kilograms of Parmigiano Reggiano used at Terroni every month : 96 (three wheels) Number of European countries finding German “mozzarella balls” that had turned inky blue : 14 Total number of mozzarella balls that had turned blue : 70,000 Number of subsequent red ricotta cheese sightings : 1 Litres of milk produced by a lactating mother in one year : 330 Average number of caffè lattes sold annually at Terroni restaurant : 18,492 Number of lactating mothers it would take to provide Terroni with milk for one year : 12 Average number of litres of wine an Italian consumes in a year : 26 Average number that a Canadian consumes : 15 Percentage of Americans who’d choose drinking over other vices if there was no health risk involved : 5 Percentage who’d choose eating whatever they wanted : 43 Calories and grams of fat in a small cheese pizza from Pizza Pizza : 1080 / 50 Calories and grams of fat in a Margherita pizza from Terroni : 626 / 22 Percentage of Italian population reported by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development to be “obese” : 10 Percentage of Canadian population reported by the OECD to be “obese” : 18 Number of Domino’s Pizza locations in Italy : 0 Average number of minutes Canadians spend eating daily : 60 Average number of minutes Italians spend : 110 Number of editions of the Italian cooking bible, The Science of Cooking and the Art of Eating Well : 111 Average number of vacation days Canadians received in 2009 : 19 Average number of vacation days Italians received in the same year : 31 Number of days that the Uffizi in Florence was closed in 2009 : 55 Number of days that the Canada's Parliament was not in session for 2009 : 232 Days that Terroni on Queen Street was closed in 2009 : 3½ Average number of minutes per day that Italian men spend in leisure more than Italian women : 80 Average number of sexual partners Canadian men have in a lifetime versus Italian men : 23 vs. 19 Average number of sexual partners Canadian women have in a lifetime versus Italian women : 10 vs. 7 Number of years since La Dolce Vita was released : 50 La Dolce Vita’s ranking in Entertainment Weekly’s 100 Greatest Films of All Time : 6th Average number of prosecco glasses rose at Terroni each year : 14,619 Average number of glasses broken at Terroni in one year : 1,446 Year that Annie Lennox’s Walking on Broken Glass reached number one in Canada : 1992 Year that Terroni opened on Queen West, Toronto : 1992