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Giulia Melucci

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“Hilarious, good-looking and as restrained as Joan Rivers on crack.” — The New York Times

Giulia Melucci’s Journalist Portfolio

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My Wild Night With Edna O'Brien

My Wild Night With Edna O'Brien

The New York Times — “Those women were amateuuuuuuurs,” Edna declared with long vowels on the way out the door. “They haven’t read the Marquis de Sade or the ‘Story of Ooooooooooooooo’!”

Pulp Singer Squeezes Out Juicy Performance

Pulp Singer Squeezes Out Juicy Performance

MTV News — NEW YORK -- Perhaps this is selfish, but I don't think that men -- or at least not straight men -- should have been allowed on the floor at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Tuesday night. With porno, Penthouse and now Viagra, aren't they given enough means for sexual arousal in our culture?

Growing Up With Hinsch's

Growing Up With Hinsch's

The New York Times — One of the last vestiges of my childhood in Brooklyn will be gone when Hinsch's, the luncheonette-cum-ice cream parlor in Bay Ridge, closes down as planned in March. Hinsch's was where I had my first meal out without any parents along. It was 1976, and I went there with my best friend, Kelly, and $10 in my pocket.

Brad, Angie, and Meryl Survive the New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Brad, Angie, and Meryl Survive the New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Vanity Fair — And they say critics don't matter! An organization populated largely by people whose clothes don't quite fit them managed to bring out a crowd of nattily dressed A-list talent for the 77th New York Film Critics Circle Awards last night in New York.

Stars Honor Screen Legend Sidney Poitier, Who, For Your Information, Was Not Wearing a Corset

Stars Honor Screen Legend Sidney Poitier, Who, For Your Information, Was Not Wearing a Corset

Vanity Fair — Those who prefer film to fashion, or just couldn't get into last night's Costume Institute Gala, found a welcoming, arguably more substantive evening out at Alice Tully Hall, where the Film Society of Lincoln Center presented Sidney Poitier with its Chaplin Award. Sidney Poitier. From PatrickMcMullan.com.

Review: Step Up to the Plate

Review: Step Up to the Plate

Film Comment Magazine — Many meals are memorable more for the first and last courses than for the main, and so it is with Step Up to the Plate, Paul Lacoste's documentary about visionary chef Michel Bras passing his three-Michelin-star restaurant in Laguiole, France over to his son Sébastien.

Home Movies: New on DVD

Home Movies: New on DVD

Film Comment Magazine — If you want to look back on those good old days of the Clinton boom economy, then order a copy of The Restaurateur , Roger Sherman's documentary about Danny Meyer's ambitious gamble to build two soaring restaurants on Manhattan's Madison Square Park back in the heady days of 1998.

I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti: A Memoir of Good Food and Bad Boyfriends

I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti: A Memoir of Good Food and Bad Boyfriends

amazon.com — I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti: A Memoir of Good Food and Bad Boyfriends [Melucci, Giulia] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti: A Memoir of Good Food and Bad Boyfriends

Know That What You Eat You Are: The Best Food Writing from Harper's Magazine (The American Retros...

Know That What You Eat You Are: The Best Food Writing from Harper's Magazine (The American Retros...

amazon.com — Know That What You Eat You Are: The Best Food Writing from Harper's Magazine (The American Retrospective Series) [Rosenbush, Ellen, Melucci, Giulia, Offerman, Nick] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Know That What You Eat You Are: The Best Food Writing from Harper's Magazine (The American Retrospective Series)

I've Been Going to Tommaso All My Life, and Not Just for the Free Opera

I've Been Going to Tommaso All My Life, and Not Just for the Free Opera

Bon Appetit — I've been eating at Tommaso all my life. Since 1974 this restaurant in Dyker Heights, a section of Brooklyn where hipsters seldom venture, has been serving up dishes that are classic yet transcend Italian-American clichés. Resident chef/owner/tenor Tommaso Verdillo was honoring white truffle season before many of his peers across the river had even heard of it.