. . . And in the Starring Role: The Timballo!
For the food-obsessed, the real star of "Big Night" isn't Stanley Tucci or Tony Shalhoub, or even Is\abella Rossellini. It's the extravagant golden-crusted timballo with which the immigrant-restaurateur brothers Primo and Secondo dazzle their banquet guests.
In earlier scenes, we got to see this festive dish being assembled -- cooked pasta infused with a lush sauce and laced with mushrooms, hard-cooked eggs and a sprinkling of meatballs, all of it trapped inside a rich, eggy pastry dough and baked in a deep basin in the oven. Now we, like the on-screen guests, gasp as the drum-shaped pastry is hefted out into the dining room on a trencher. We marvel as the camera closes in on …
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Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); October 2, 1996
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