August 2010

First
	Q & A: Oliver Platt This month marks the debut of Platt's new Stamford-filmed Showtime series, "The Big C." Patricia Grandjean
The Connecticut Table
Assaggio, Stratford Assaggio, on the Housatonic River with a harbor view, is as lavishly shipshape and dedicated to la dolce vita as an Italian playboy’s megabuck yacht. Welcome aboard, cara, a seat at the bar, perhaps? Where you can admire the boats and we can admire you? by Elise Maclay
	Sal e Pepe, Newtown Italian is our comfort food, and it’s comforting to have a nice little Italian restaurant more or less in our back yard. But some are better than others, and while great Italian restaurants abound in New Haven, Hartford and Stamford, it’s newsworthy to find a wonderful (dare I say gourmet?) Italian restaurant in a town less abundantly endowed. by Elise Maclay
Being There
	From Cow to Cone It isn’t summer without a visit to UConn’s Dairy Bar, the premier ice cream-making facility in the state. Ray Bendici