You feed the Catzingers to the Ratzingers...*

Bruni reports that Bastianich will be cooking for the pope when he visits NYC next month.** If it were the regular kind of Pope, the Italian kind, a daunting challenge, possibly, but this one is Bavarian, so one has to imagine that it's mainly a question of thawing out some wursts.
*Allusion to a little bit of Lutheran liberation theology -- see below.
**A comment thread that delivers like it drives a big brown truck, or was a recipe on Epicurious.