QUOTE : This was the wedding menu.<br /><br /><b>Starters</b><br /><i>Rounds of</i> Grana Padano<br /><i>Breads<br />Seafood platters<br />Prosciutto with melon<br />Prawn cocktails</i><br /><br />(The prawn cocktails were at Mrs. Gardner's insistence. She said she'd never heard of prosciutto and was dubious about meat served with fruit.)<br /><br /><b>Entrées</b><br /><i>Chicken with white sauce and vegetables, or <br />Beefsteak with mushrooms and béarnaise sauce</i><br /><br />(Alex's requests. We copied them from the menu of his favorite restaurant.)<br /><br /><b>Dessert</b><br /><i>Platters of cannoli, cassata, </i>biancumanciari, setteveli, <i>and almond cookies</i><br /><br />The desserts were my wish list. Traditional and Sicilian, just the way I wanted them. Mrs. Gardner said she wasn't "a sweet tooth" (in a way that made it sound like a kind of tribe), and Alex couldn't care less about dessert. I thought of these desserts when I went to aerobics classes, trying to lose weight before the wedding- imagined the smooth filling of the cannoli, the cool velvet of the cassata, and the toothy crunch of the almond cookies.