New York restaurateur Joe Bastianich's upcoming memoir apparently takes issue with critic Steve Cuozzo over a critical headline Cuozzo says never existed: "Why does Joe remember it wrongly? Did Mama Lidia beat him with a zabaglione whisk for the mess he made of Del Posto's launch, when it was nearly evicted for violating its lease?" Also: "When a restaurateur questions a critic’s intelligence, it’s incumbent on the restaurateur not to sound like a street-corner lunatic himself." [NYP]
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