Well...maybe "Carthaginian" might have been a little stuffy. All I really meant to say was that no blood had been spilled.
I have to come clean and admit that I was one who did not think that recipes belonged in our book. How many people were going to stash their e-reader on the kitchen shelf for easy reference? I mean, Heartburn doubled as an actual cookbook. When you weren't laughing at the story, you could cry, and Mashed Potatoes for One is the perfect dish for a lonely heart.
Having said that, I like Anon #1's recipe for Chicken Sicilian. I cannot help pointing out, however, that it calls for a half-cup of unsalted capers. Even unsalted, Nora Ephron would not touch a caper, going so far as to mention the fact in her screenplay for the movie, "My Blue Heaven," starring Steve Martin as a member of the mob in the Witness Protection Program.
Anything that tastes good with capers in it, she once said, would invariably taste better without. I agree. So I'd leave them out of my Chicken Sicilian. But they might work in Tuna Carthaginian, with a nice bottle of Beaujolais and a little blood.
__Anon.#2
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